Hazel Brown LLD, gen­der and con­sumer ac­tivist and for­mer co­or­di­na­tor of the Net­work of NGOs for the Ad­vance­ment of Women, passed away peace­ful­ly on Thurs­day morn­ing.  She was 80 years old.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has ac­ti­vat­ed a YEL­LOW Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert for Trinidad, as the South Oropouche Riv­er has breached its banks in some parts with wa­ter spilling in­to some com­mu­ni­ties in South Trinidad.

A nurse con­tact­ed the po­lice around 3:15 pm yes­ter­day (Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 21), af­ter the ba­by was brought to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty un­re­spon­sive.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

Sev­er­al peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and two firearms seized by of­fi­cers dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in var­i­ous Di­vi­sions over the last three days.

Po­lice are search­ing for a ban­dit who was re­port­ed­ly stabbed by a Cu­mu­to pro­pri­etor on Tues­day night dur­ing a rob­bery at his busi­ness place.

The 34-year-old, of Spring Road East, Five Rivers, se­cured the wood­en struc­ture be­fore leav­ing around 5 pm on Tues­day.

The sol­dier de­tained for ques­tion­ing in con­nec­tion with Mon­day’s fa­tal rob­bery at­tack at Pen­ny­wise Plaza, in La Ro­maine, has filed writ of habeas cor­pus.

Life has changed for the em­ploy­ees of Pen­ny­wise Plaza as they re­turned to work for the first time since Mon­day’s hor­rif­ic shoot­ing.

These came yes­ter­day from Gov­ern­ment, Op­po­si­tion and eco­nom­ic ex­perts ahead of the Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Two days af­ter Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said that he nor any­one on his be­half has vis­it­ed the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) comes word that the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) ex­ec­u­tive is not rul­ing out form­ing a new po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

A cir­cu­lar from the Firearms unit of the TTPS with amend­ed cri­te­ria for air ri­fle per­mits has prompt­ed Ex­treme Hunters of Trinidad and To­ba­go to con­tem­plate le­gal ac­tion against the po­lice ser­vice.