The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) is de­mand­ing im­me­di­ate gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion, fol­low­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of a wa­ter pump from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Arou­ca, and a pi­geon in­fes­ta­tion at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa.

Po­lice are search­ing for two men who es­caped cus­tody from the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day morn­ing.

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the kid­nap­ping and sub­se­quent mur­der of busi­ness­man Shashi Anand Ram­per­sad, fel­low res­i­dents and friends of the de­ceased man ex­pressed shock and sad­ness at his mur­der.

An em­ploy­ee of the Board of In­land Rev­enue (BIR) is su­ing her em­ploy­er, af­ter she was re­as­signed to an­oth­er de­part­ment af­ter be­ing ac­cused of prac­tis­ing “voodoo.”

Stake­hold­ers who oc­cu­py the Ca­roni Bird Sanc­tu­ary are call­ing for some­thing to be done to ad­dress a cat in­fes­ta­tion at the na­tion­al park, as over 100 of the an­i­mals are now roam­ing the en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly pro­tect­ed site.

The Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties (MPU) will be closed on Fri­day to deal with a ro­dent in­fes­ta­tion at its head of­fice at One Alexan­der Street, St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) is al­lo­cat­ing a mere $750,000 to the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion to run Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in the south­ern city.

A mid­day shoot­ing at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, Laven­tille left one man hos­pi­talised while a po­lice of­fi­cer and a fe­male mi­nor man­aged to es­cape in­jury af­ter gun­men opened fire on their car yes­ter­day.

One day af­ter a fire de­stroyed their homes, sev­er­al res­i­dents of Africa Road, Laven­tille, ex­pressed grat­i­tude to good samar­i­tans and Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land, SC, for as­sist­ing them.

Po­lice be­lieve that a man found dead close to a ceme­tery in Clax­ton Bay yes­ter­day could be a 32-year-old miss­ing man. 

It hap­pened while the TTPS con­duct­ed sev­er­al road­blocks to­day in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion along­side of­fi­cers from the Trans­port Di­vi­sion and Tran­sit Po­lice Unit. It be­gan in the morn­ing in Red Hill, Arou­ca.

The vic­tim, who was iden­ti­fied as a res­i­dent of Blan­chisseuse, was said to be in the com­pa­ny of two oth­er rel­a­tives, in a car near Hamel Smith Street, Laven­tille, around noon.