Sir Neville Cenac, who served as the is­land’s Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al and For­eign Min­is­ter, died on Tues­day at the age of 86.

Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed three peo­ple—two men and one woman—af­ter they blocked what was sup­posed to have been a Peace Walk seek­ing to end gang vi­o­lence in east Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les last night ac­cused un­named in­di­vid­u­als of at­tempt­ing to sup­press the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­dle­light vig­il in de­fence of free­dom and democ­ra­cy in San Juan.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les all used their Cor­pus Christi mes­sages to urge cit­i­zens to strength­en na­tion­al uni­ty, serve oth­ers and re­flect on the chal­lenges fac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer has de­scribed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to main­tain re­stric­tions on protests at 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SOE) as a “gal­lop­ing dic­ta­tor­ship” and is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­think the mea­sure.

The Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion (PoSD) has record­ed an in­crease in se­ri­ous crime be­tween Jan­u­ary 1 and June 2, with mur­ders ac­count­ing for the largest in­crease.

Route Two Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Bren­ton Knights be­lieves that their two days of “rest and re­lax­ation” sent the mes­sage to the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties.

While com­muters scram­bled for trans­porta­tion dur­ing the three-day maxi taxi protest, busi­ness­es across south Trinidad ex­pe­ri­enced lit­tle to no dis­rup­tion, with on­ly a few work­ers ar­riv­ing late, ac­cord­ing to rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the re­gion’s busi­ness cham­bers.

The rel­a­tives of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza are plan­ning a memo­r­i­al ser­vice in To­ba­go as they con­tin­ue to mourn his sus­pect­ed death.

For on­ly the sec­ond time in the na­tion’s his­to­ry, Trinidad and To­ba­go will serve as a non-per­ma­nent mem­ber of the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les says there will be changes to the Op­po­si­tion Sen­ate bench when Par­lia­ment re­con­venes to­mor­row.

A prison of­fi­cer has been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing a col­league with whom he was in­volved in a love tri­an­gle.