It was just af­ter mid­day on Ju­ly 14 when a wa­ter ven­dor was shot in the head on Broad­way in Port-of-Spain, in clear view of many mak­ing their way in and around the cap­i­tal city.

A land­lord has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a decade-long le­gal bat­tle over the abil­i­ty of the chil­dren of a for­mer ten­ant to re­new a lease for a par­cel of land, af­ter their moth­er passed away with­out leav­ing a will. 

A woman po­lice con­sta­ble (WPC) has been giv­en the green light to sue the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice Ex­am­i­na­tions Board over its move to re­scind its de­ci­sion to al­low her to sit a pro­mo­tion­al ex­am­i­na­tion sev­er­al months af­ter she com­plet­ed it. 

Po­lice said Ak­il St John, 42, of Richard­son Lane, was shot sev­er­al times by gun­men as he ex­it­ed his house af­ter be­ing called out­side around 6.30 am yes­ter­day.

Nine peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and four il­le­gal firearms, a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics were seized in po­lice ex­er­cis­es over the week­end.

With that ac­cu­sa­tion, for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress stal­wart Dr De­vant Ma­haraj has slammed some at­ten­dees of last Fri­day’s UNC Fam­i­ly Day, whom he al­leged in­clud­ed some­one who re­cent­ly wrote to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley about UNC Sen­a­tor Anil Roberts’ claims on Row­ley’s wife.

At­tor­ney Lar­ry Lal­la says it’s time to move on from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ 2020 lead­er­ship elec­tion de­feat, since there must now be a meet­ing of the minds to find com­mon ground to take T&T for­ward out of its many dif­fi­cul­ties.

In the last sev­en days, To­ba­go has record­ed 141 new COVID-19 cas­es, push­ing the is­land’s to­tal cas­es since March 2020 to 10,721.

A for­mer jock­ey on his way to work was killed dur­ing a three-ve­hi­cle crash along the high­way near Freeport yes­ter­day.

With more than 340 mur­ders record­ed for the year thus far, one crim­i­nol­o­gist is con­cerned that the mur­der rate is now out of con­trol.

A post-mortem will be con­duct­ed to de­ter­mine how News­day’s for­mer ed­i­tor-in-chief and jour­nal­ist Suzanne Mills died.

Busi­ness­man Eli Ha­jahlay, 51, who was one of three men shot at the Res­i­dence night­club in One Wood­brook Place in Port-of-Spain ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing, re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.