Four­teen peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Ma­jor Op­er­a­tions Unit (MOU) for Breach of Covid-19 Reg­u­la­tions dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion.

An act­ing Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice Ser­vice, who was last in charge of the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol Unit (ERP), was grant­ed $100,000 bail on charges of in­de­cent as­sault and se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy against a fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer.

Of­fi­cers of the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion are ac­tive­ly search­ing for 16-year-old Ke­shaun Ab­dool. Ke­shaun was last seen at his Nor­folk Street, Bel­mont home at 7:30 am on Sep­tem­ber 19th. He was re­port­ed miss­ing Sep­tem­ber 21st.

A bank teller from Pe­nal was ar­rest­ed and sev­er­al mar­i­jua­na plants were seized by of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed this morn­ing.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed the ex­er­cise be­tween the hours of 12:15 am and 5 am dur­ing which they ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion at the Clarke Road, Pe­nal, home of a 34-year-old man.

One man was ar­rest­ed and a firearm and a mag­a­zine with eight rounds of 40 cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise yes­ter­day.
The ex­er­cise co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt Aguilal and con­duct­ed in San­gre Grande be­tween 1 pm and 4 pm was su­per­vised by Sgt Harp­er and Cpl Ram­nar­ine and in­clud­ed Of­fi­cers of San­gre Grande Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tion De­part­ment and Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit.

A re­tired med­ical doc­tor was robbed at gun­point of a large sum of mon­ey at his Palmiste home this morn­ing. A po­lice re­port stat­ed that Michael Leon Poi, 87, was at his home around 3.15 am with the maid when he was jolt­ed from his sleep by a loud crash­ing sound. He saw three men armed with firearms in his home. They robbed him of an undis­closed sum of cash and es­caped in a white wag­on. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Wednes­day, Oc­to­ber 7, 2020:

Af­ter 30 years, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is get­ting a new home. The pro­posed Abat­toir Road, Sea Lots head­quar­ters is es­ti­mat­ed to cost close to $300 mil­lion.

Too small to un­der­stand that his fa­ther is dead, the one-year-old son of slain prison of­fi­cer Stephon Richard­son keeps cry­ing for him.

The coun­try’s COVID-19 death toll rose again yes­ter­day af­ter one ad­di­tion­al fa­tal­i­ty was record­ed. The lat­est death, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health, was an el­der­ly male with pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tion, tak­ing the to­tal num­ber of peo­ple to suc­cumb to the virus to 83.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says when the mar­ket is lib­er­alised in less than three months, the Gov­ern­ment does not ex­pect price goug­ing nor the for­ma­tion of car­tels to fix the price of fu­el. How­ev­er, he al­so ad­mits that fu­el prices will go up if the Gov­ern­ment achieves its oil price tar­get.

This was the word from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day as gave as­sur­ances that the de­ci­sion to pri­va­tise Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um gas sta­tions will not lead to a mo­nop­oly.