The Board of Di­rec­tors and Sec­re­tari­at of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) is mourn­ing the death of for­mer Pres­i­dent Wayne Yip Choy.

Two men were ar­rest­ed dur­ing an an­ti-ex­tor­tion ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Tues­day.

Four peo­ple are in cus­tody fol­low­ing sep­a­rate po­lice ex­er­cis­es in the North East­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions tar­get­ing vi­o­lent crime and il­le­gal firearms.

A Pe­tit Val­ley man has been charged with sev­er­al counts of as­sault­ing po­lice of­fi­cers fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in Arou­ca on Fri­day night.

The State has of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed three ma­jor Mid­dle East­ern para­mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate freeze on any Trinidad and To­ba­go as­sets linked to the groups.

Twen­ty-three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two sons of for­mer al­leged gang and com­mu­ni­ty leader Sel­wyn “Robo­cop” Alex­is, have been de­tained un­der Per­son­al De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, as se­cu­ri­ty forces con­tin­ue a sweep­ing crack­down on or­gan­ised crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

A car chase in­to Cas­cade on Sun­day night end­ed with a shootout and the death of one man, po­lice said yes­ter­day.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our has sig­nalled a re­newed fo­cus on ac­count­abil­i­ty and per­for­mance at Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL), fol­low­ing the air­line’s for­mal re­as­sign­ment to his min­istry.

A 38-year-old woman and 17-year-old son re­main in po­lice cus­tody, as of­fi­cers try to piece to­geth­er the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the al­leged abuse and false im­pris­on­ment of Sabi­ta Bas­deo.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has raised con­cerns over the pro­posed award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, ques­tion­ing the trans­paren­cy and le­gal­i­ty of the process.

Sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie died from mul­ti­ple trau­mat­ic in­juries, par­tic­u­lar­ly to the head, af­ter a jet ski op­er­a­tor ran in­to her fam­i­ly at Pi­geon Point beach in To­ba­go last week.

The T&T power­boat fra­ter­ni­ty and Truck­ers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T lost long­stand­ing mem­ber Robert Charles “Peb­bles” Tardieu.