The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has vowed to in­crease its ef­forts to dis­man­tle crim­i­nal gangs op­er­at­ing across the coun­try—and has pledged to chan­nel more re­sources to­wards this fight.

Mar­gin­alised youths in T&T look­ing to earn a quick dol­lar through crim­i­nal pur­suits are dri­ving up op­er­at­ing costs for busi­ness­es, which in turn has sent the cost of liv­ing soar­ing for av­er­age cit­i­zens.

As mur­dered moth­er of two Asha George was laid to rest yes­ter­day, her cousin made an im­pas­sioned ap­peal to rel­a­tives to love, sup­port and care for her chil­dren.

The com­mu­ni­ty of Mount St George, To­ba­go has been shak­en by the deaths of fire of­fi­cer Chris­t­ian Adams and his wife There­sa Al­leyne in a freak ac­ci­dent on the Claude Noel High­way on Thurs­day.

A week af­ter she was shot in the head dur­ing a dead­ly home in­va­sion, a 12-year-old girl has re­gained con­scious­ness and is re­cu­per­at­ing. She re­mains ward­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal as the bul­let is still in her head but is no longer in the In­ten­sive Care Unit, a rel­a­tive said.

A 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake caused a small tsuna­mi to wash ashore on South Pa­cif­ic is­lands Fri­day. No dam­age has been re­port­ed, and the threat passed in a few hours.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

The vic­tims were iden­ti­fied as fire of­fi­cer Chris­t­ian Adams and his wife There­sa Al­leyne, from Mt St George. The vic­tims were par­ents of one child.

While King Charles III us­es a scep­tre and crown to show­case his pow­er, Trinidad-born artist Sarah Knights con­tin­ues to ce­ment her lega­cy with the stroke of a brush.

That was the call yes­ter­day from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, fol­low­ing the Privy Coun­cil judg­ment in favour of UNC ac­tivist Ravi Bal­go­b­in Ma­haraj, who had chal­lenged the post­pone­ment of the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions.

A home in­va­sion and rob­bery with­in the gat­ed en­clave of Re­gents Park West, West­moor­ings, yes­ter­day, has left res­i­dents shak­en, even as they now look to in­crease se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures to pro­tect their fam­i­lies and homes.

Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing Prov­i­dence Girls’ Catholic School in Bel­mont were sum­moned to col­lect their chil­dren even be­fore the morn­ing bell rang yes­ter­day, af­ter a gun­shot vic­tim en­tered the school’s com­pound, send­ing staff and stu­dents scream­ing and search­ing for a safe space.