Twen­ty-two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a se­ries of war­rant and an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across mul­ti­ple po­lice di­vi­sions this week.

More than 600 young peo­ple across Trinidad and To­ba­go will take part in a new na­tion­al in­tern­ship launched by TSTT. The Fu­ture Lead­ers In­tern­ship Pro­gramme, un­veiled at Queen’s Park Oval on Ju­ly 31, is aimed at cit­i­zens aged 17 to 21 who are not em­ployed or en­rolled in full-time ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion.

A mag­is­trate has or­dered the for­fei­ture of more than $36,000 TT and sev­er­al for­eign cur­ren­cies to the State, fol­low­ing a mon­ey laun­der­ing and child traf­fick­ing probe that be­gan with a raid at a 2019 “Se­cret Sun­day” par­ty in Port of Spain.

SE­WA TT has re­ceived telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions equip­ment val­ued at $50,000 to bet­ter sup­port the char­i­ta­ble or­gan­i­sa­tion’s ef­forts dur­ing na­tion­al emer­gen­cies. The do­na­tion came from Com­put­er Tech­nolo­gies and Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (CT­SL), which launched its op­er­a­tions in Cou­va on Thurs­day.

In­mates Ra­jaae Ali and Earl Richards, two of ten in­mates cur­rent­ly in­car­cer­at­ed at the Teteron Bar­racks in Ch­aguara­mas, yes­ter­day hand­ed over hand­writ­ten state­ments, in which they swore they were not in­volved in any plot to desta­bilise the coun­try or to kill state of­fi­cials.

Se­cu­ri­ty has been in­creased for all the peo­ple who were tar­get­ed in as­sas­si­na­tion plots or­gan­ised by a crime syn­di­cate op­er­at­ing from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison - in­clud­ing min­is­ters who were al­so tar­get­ed.

More than 700 dis­qual­i­fied dri­vers across Trinidad and To­ba­go will be giv­en a sec­ond chance to re­gain their per­mit.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Michael Dowlath yes­ter­day an­nounced that schools will now re­open on Sep­tem­ber 8, 2025, fol­low­ing Cab­i­net’s ap­proval of a one-week ex­ten­sion to the Ju­ly-Au­gust va­ca­tion.

The Cab­i­net yes­ter­day ap­proved an in­creased num­ber of bur­saries — 345, val­ued at just over $51 mil­lion.

For­mer Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty chair­man Hanif Ben­jamin was yes­ter­day grant­ed $170,000 bail on two sex­u­al­ly re­lat­ed of­fences against a 15-year-old boy.

Be­tween the Ju­ly 18th start of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) and up yes­ter­day (Ju­ly 31), the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­duct­ed a to­tal of 6,594 search­es, ar­rest­ed 449 peo­ple, seized 46 firearms and 626 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion - the most in 5.56mm bul­lets and 9mm “shells.”

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al ap­peared in court yes­ter­day, charged with re­ceiv­ing a $93,000 ran­som in re­la­tion to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim.