The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al will be re­quired to de­fend yet an­oth­er case brought by re­put­ed gang leader Ra­jaee Ali over be­ing trans­ferred to mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ties in Ch­aguara­mas and be­ing de­nied ac­cess to his le­gal team.

Ques­tions have been raised over the fail­ure to ful­ly im­ple­ment the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry that was ap­point­ed in 2010 to look in­to the events sur­round­ing the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup. 

As T&T ob­served the 35th an­niver­sary of the 1990 at­tempt­ed coup, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro drew a strik­ing par­al­lel be­tween those dark days and the cur­rent cli­mate, warn­ing that the coun­try is again nav­i­gat­ing “try­ing times”.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing a man found dead in the Cunu­pia dis­trict back in April last year.

Po­lice said around 3 pm Isa­iah Pem­ber­ton, of Priz­gar Lands, Laven­tille went to a beach be­hind Five Is­lands Wa­ter­park, Ch­aguara­mas with rel­a­tives. 

A 65-year-old man was killed af­ter he ran in­to the path of a van on the Uri­ah But­ler High­way on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice seized two home­made shot­guns, re­cov­ered stolen cash, and ar­rest­ed sev­er­al sus­pects in a se­ries of an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across Trinidad be­tween Fri­day and Sun­day.

On East Grove Main Road, a busy stretch in George­town, Guyana, a dou­bles shed stands at the road­side. Over­look­ing the small tent is a Movi­eTowne com­plex rem­i­nis­cent of Wright­son Road in Port-of-Spain. Massy Stores and Star­bucks are al­so part of the space—all sights fa­mil­iar to any Trin­bag­on­ian.

As the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) push­es ahead with its na­tion­wide in­fra­struc­ture re­view, of­fi­cials toured key Cen­tral Re­gion fa­cil­i­ties on Sat­ur­day, meet­ing with MPs who pressed the agency to move from promis­es to per­for­mance.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lakram Bo­doe is prais­ing the Strate­gic Learn­ing and Spe­cial Ed­u­ca­tion In­sti­tute for its ef­forts in as­sist­ing chil­dren with autism. He is invit­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion to col­lab­o­rate with the Min­istry of Health in se­cur­ing spaces for 200 chil­dren cur­rent­ly on the in­sti­tute’s wait­ing list.

A fam­i­ly of 12 faces los­ing their home, which has been in the fam­i­ly for over 50 years, af­ter a land­slide this month se­vere­ly dam­aged the prop­er­ty. They are ur­gent­ly plead­ing for swift gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion to pre­vent to­tal loss.

A 23-year-old man from Kel­ly Vil­lage has been charged with mur­der and firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences in con­nec­tion with the killing of 35-year-old Scott Ram­bar­ran.