Two men were chased and killed in a hail of bul­lets in Siparia on Sat­ur­day night. The bod­ies of Kwame Par­ris, 29, alias “Six,” of Co­conut Al­ley, Siparia, and Teshawn Bap­tiste, 25, al­so known as “Black­boy,” of Lowkie Trace, Pe­nal, were dis­cov­ered in Sen­non Vil­lage af­ter res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing loud ex­plo­sions around 9 p.m.

To­ba­go is mourn­ing the pass­ing of one of the is­land’s ma­tri­archs and culi­nary pi­o­neers, Gre­ta Trim, fond­ly known as Miss Trim, who helped make Store Bay a pop­u­lar spot for lo­cal cui­sine. Known for its crab and dumpling and oth­er savoury de­lights, Miss Trim’s Foods has be­come a sta­ple for vis­i­tors at the pop­u­lar bathing fa­cil­i­ty.

The Gov­ern­ment has al­ready es­tab­lished and equipped a Tier 4 da­ta cen­tre (the most pow­er­ful) in T&T, but has not dis­closed its lo­ca­tion.

Po­lice were up to late last evening search­ing for eight Venezue­lan men who es­caped from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre, Aripo, ear­li­er yes­ter­day.

The per­ma­nent stop to ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against Jack Warn­er is be­ing seen as a hol­low vic­to­ry by com­men­ta­tors, but al­so as a sig­nal that struc­tur­al re­form is re­quired with­in the na­tion’s jus­tice sys­tem.

Years of re­port­ed con­stant ap­peals for him to se­cure his dogs end­ed with a 66-year-old man dy­ing on Fri­day af­ter­noon af­ter a fight with neigh­bours.

The fam­i­lies of six miss­ing crew mem­bers aboard the fish­ing ves­sel St Vin­cent VII are mak­ing an ur­gent re­gion­al ap­peal for as­sis­tance as the search con­tin­ues for the burned ves­sel, which has been miss­ing at sea since Mon­day, Ju­ly 13.

Hu­man rights ad­vo­cates are warn­ing that the State could face se­ri­ous con­se­quences if a de­tainee held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) dies in cus­tody dur­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, as con­cerns grow over the use of ex­tra­or­di­nary de­ten­tion pow­ers.

For over six decades, house ar­rests in T&T have emerged as a rare but pow­er­ful le­gal mea­sure.

For years, Den­nis Achargee was a fa­mil­iar face in Quar­ry Road, Siparia: a me­chan­ic, for­mer cy­clist and neigh­bour re­mem­bered by res­i­dents as a qui­et man who would stop to talk and greet those around him.

De­spite a break-in that dis­rupt­ed op­er­a­tions at the Pro Cathe­dral of Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day morn­ing, parish priest Fr Matthew d’Here­aux said the in­ci­dent would not stop God’s work.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has the foun­da­tion to be­come a re­gion­al play­er in ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, but the coun­try must ur­gent­ly strength­en its poli­cies and safe­guards as it moves ahead with am­bi­tious plans for large-scale AI in­fra­struc­ture, says the lo­cal re­searcher be­hind the coun­try’s lat­est glob­al AI as­sess­ment.