Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) in charge of Op­er­a­tions and Gold Com­man­der for the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Suzette Mar­tin says the re­sponse to crim­i­nal­i­ty has record­ed some suc­cess­es, notwith­stand­ing con­tin­ued homi­cides.

The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) says the re­cent clo­sure of some busi­ness­es re­flects a long-stand­ing eco­nom­ic de­cline in Trinidad and To­ba­go and not a sud­den down­turn.

The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment, through the US Em­bassy in Port of Spain and the US South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM), has do­nat­ed 8,640 meals ready-to-eat (MREs) to the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF).

KINGSTON, Ja­maica, Apr 7, CMC -The In­de­pen­dent Com­mis­sion of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (IN­DE­COM) says 12 peo­ple have been shot and killed by po­lice over the last six days, in­clud­ing 10 record­ed over the long East­er week­end.

Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has sug­gest­ed that the US will de­stroy Iran­ian “civil­i­sa­tion” if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hor­muz and sub­mit to his terms.

A 34-year-old man was shot dead, and two oth­ers, in­clud­ing his preg­nant girl­friend, were wound­ed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack at Moo­nan Road, Waller­field.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dou­bled down on her crit­i­cism of the pro­ce­dure utilised by Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Heads of Gov­ern­ment to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett to a sec­ond term as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al. 

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has ac­cused the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of com­plain­ing about the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­grammes be­cause they are no longer ben­e­fit­ing from state pro­grammes.

Eleven in­di­vid­u­als have been charged fol­low­ing an in­ter­cep­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard (TTCG) off the Erin coast on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said mul­ti­ple an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed over the East­er week­end led to sev­er­al ar­rests for am­mu­ni­tion-re­lat­ed of­fences in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion.

A bill for Trinidad and To­ba­go to work with the Unit­ed States for more ef­fec­tive bor­der se­cu­ri­ty is ex­pect­ed to be pre­sent­ed to Par­lia­ment on Fri­day.

While it was a rainy East­er Mon­day for many, some homes and res­i­dents in Phase Four, Beetham Gar­dens, were drenched for more than 12 hours by cas­cad­ing wa­ter from a Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) pipeline, rather than burst­ing clouds.