A 38-year-old man was shot and killed while sit­ting in his ve­hi­cle in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, on Wednes­day evening.

Po­lice have de­tained a 69-year-old West­moor­ings busi­ness­woman as part of the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve.

There have been no re­ports of Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als be­ing killed or in­jured fol­low­ing the pow­er­ful earth­quakes in Venezuela, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

A woman ac­cused of par­tic­i­pat­ing in an al­leged TT$20 mil­lion fraud­u­lent cheque scheme has been grant­ed TT$6 mil­lion bail and or­dered to sur­ren­der her pass­port pend­ing the out­come of court pro­ceed­ings.