As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar says his im­me­di­ate fo­cus as new head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS) will be sta­bil­i­sa­tion, re­build­ing morale and restor­ing pub­lic trust as the ser­vice grap­ples with se­ri­ous in­ter­nal chal­lenges.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed it­self against 11 com­plaints brought against it by NH In­ter­na­tion­al be­fore the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion, clear­ing the way for a mul­ti-bil­lion-dol­lar hous­ing pro­gramme to pro­ceed.

New­ly elect­ed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis said her first mis­sion at the helm will be a mem­ber­ship dri­ve.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says that sev­er­al at­tacks in­volv­ing knives, in­clud­ing a mur­der in San Juan, over the week­end have demon­strat­ed a slight shift in the pat­terns of crim­i­nals.

The ad­di­tion of 51 elec­tric po­lice pa­trol cars is ex­pect­ed to en­hance the cov­er­age and crime-fight­ing ca­pac­i­ties of po­lice of­fi­cers as part of a new pa­trol ini­tia­tive; how­ev­er, of­fi­cers as­signed to use the ve­hi­cles are re­mind­ed to use the new re­sources re­spon­si­bly.

Of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion have promised an in­creased po­lice pres­ence, in­clud­ing tar­get­ed search­es, in the af­ter­math of three sep­a­rate mur­ders on the same street in Va­len­cia, days apart from each oth­er.

Two el­der­ly men, who were re­port­ed miss­ing af­ter a vis­it to the Tu­na­puna area, have been found dead. Their bod­ies were dis­cov­ered in­side a burnt ve­hi­cle in North Oropouche yes­ter­day.

A High Court judge says the court must ex­er­cise ju­di­cious cau­tion in mat­ters of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE), as he up­held the use of emer­gency pow­ers to ex­tend a sus­pect’s de­ten­tion be­yond 48 hours.

As the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) seeks to at­tract vis­i­tors to the is­land all year, Black2Sug­ars is mak­ing sure jazz is a sta­ple on the en­ter­tain­ment cal­en­dar.

A par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee prob­ing the pro­cure­ment of med­i­cines is ex­am­in­ing whether a con­flict of in­ter­est and break­down in over­sight oc­curred, with at­ten­tion now fo­cused on Prin­ci­pal Med­ical Of­fi­cer (PMO) Dr Maryam Ab­dool- Richards.

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has ex­tend­ed an in­vi­ta­tion to Bar­ba­dos to ex­plore in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties in Venezuela’s oil and gas in­dus­try, as both coun­tries sig­nal a re­newed push to deep­en eco­nom­ic and en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion.

Busi­ness mag­nate Emile Elias and his com­pa­ny NH In­ter­na­tion­al have been or­dered to pay full le­gal costs to En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal af­ter the High Court dis­missed a defama­tion claim linked to com­ments made dur­ing a 2016 po­lit­i­cal meet­ing.