Fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions made against prison and po­lice of­fi­cers of abuse of a “high-pro­file” pris­on­er, re­mand­ed pris­on­ers are ex­pect­ed to en­gage in a hunger strike from to­mor­row.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 28,105

That’s how Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh re­spond­ed to crit­i­cism from the pub­lic and the fa­ther of the young woman he scold­ed on na­tion­al tele­vi­sion on Mon­day for breach­ing the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions.

It’s a year since geo­sci­en­tists pre­dict­ed an im­mi­nent erup­tion of the Pi­paro mud vol­cano, spurring na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts to ham­mer out an evac­u­a­tion plan com­plete with drills.

There are cur­rent­ly no plans to pri­va­tise any of the three state util­i­ty com­pa­nies but if the Gov­ern­ment can be con­vinced that move will be prof­itable, that po­si­tion can change in the fu­ture.

A Tu­na­puna man was grant­ed bail for $10,000 when he ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Mag­is­trate charged with breach­ing a protes­tion or­der.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, on Sep­tem­ber 15th of­fi­cers of the North East­ern and West­ern Di­vi­sions con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween the hours of 4 pm and 10 pm. The of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at Don Miguel Road, Su­dan Trace, and Oud­han Trace, El Soc­cor­ro.

Po­lice re­ports state that on Tues­day 15th Sep­tem­ber 2020, around 10:15 pm, an 18-year-old man was lim­ing on the side of Mary’s Hill Road when he had an al­ter­ca­tion with a man whom he knew.

A 44-year-old man was sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate vir­tu­al­ly to­day af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed for re­peat­ed­ly rap­ing a ten-year-old girl and try­ing to suf­fo­cate her with a pil­low.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ir­win Hack­shaw is sus­pend­ed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect af­ter Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty made rec­om­men­da­tions to the Com­mis­sion­er and hand­ed over find­ings in their in­ves­ti­ga­tion to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on Tues­day.

Ma­yaro Po­lice made the biggest haul in a mar­i­jua­na erad­i­ca­tion ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the dis­trict yes­ter­day, find­ing mil­lions of TT-dol­lars’ worth of the drug in cured, seedling and tree form.

Two peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of eight-month-old Sophia Ri­vas.