Four men have been mur­dered in Mor­vant since Tues­day morn­ing, with the lat­est killing oc­cur­ring at around 5 am yes­ter­day.

On the same day the T&T Prison Ser­vice be­gan re­leas­ing de­tainees held un­der the State of Emer­gency, two men were killed in an al­leged shootout af­ter po­lice at­tempt­ed to de­tain them un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) yes­ter­day.

A 36-year-old man was shot and killed yes­ter­day, dur­ing an al­leged ex­change of gun­fire with mem­bers of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit (AEU) at a house in Cara­pichaima.

The Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion will pro­vide sup­port to a To­ba­go teenag­er re­cent­ly ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with his rel­a­tive’s death.

Stu­dents in­volved in school fights could face crim­i­nal charges if po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions un­cov­er suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence, In­spec­tor Kurt Cal­len­der has warned.

The Ju­di­cia­ry is seek­ing to close a le­gal loop­hole al­leged­ly be­ing used by some mo­torists to evade traf­fic tick­ets.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will move to over­haul the coun­try’s out­dat­ed sys­tem for ap­prov­ing med­ica­tions, ques­tion­ing why drugs al­ready ap­proved by in­ter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised reg­u­la­tors should face lengthy de­lays be­fore reach­ing pa­tients in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Op­po­si­tion MP and for­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of us­ing her re­cent com­ments on stu­dent dis­ci­pline as a dis­trac­tion from fail­ures with­in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has des­ig­nat­ed 21 Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean crim­i­nal groups as “for­eign ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tions,” with the lat­est an Ecuado­ri­an group added to the list on Wednes­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) is call­ing for greater ac­cess to for­eign ex­change (forex) for ve­hi­cle deal­ers as the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares the 2026-2027 Na­tion­al Bud­get.

A 37-year-old St James man has been charged with the mur­der of 49-year-old Miris­sia Weekes, who died at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter al­leged­ly be­ing shot.

An in­quest has been or­dered in­to the death of 26-year-old Sea Lots res­i­dent Ed­win “Teo” Richard­son, who died af­ter be­ing stabbed on Au­gust 26.