The rel­a­tives of a San­gre Grande man are ap­peal­ing for help in lo­cat­ing him af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing on Fri­day.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Garvin Heer­ah is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment a na­tion­al cri­sis man­age­ment plan, warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains un­pre­pared for emer­gen­cies rang­ing from nat­ur­al dis­as­ters to se­cu­ri­ty threats.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has sent an ad­vance team from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) to Ja­maica to as­sist in the re­cov­ery fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, with an­oth­er team set to fol­low soon be­hind. 

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a shoot­ing at a Hal­loween par­ty in Mal­oney that left two men hos­pi­talised ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a rob­bery in which a man was held up and his ve­hi­cle stolen af­ter ar­rang­ing to sell a PlaySta­tion 5 through Face­book Mar­ket­place.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of an uniden­ti­fied man’s body found float­ing in the sea off Con­ces­sion Dri­ve, Sealots, on Fri­day evening.

Po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a body was seen off the coast of Sea Lots yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo says al­co­hol seized by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion was dis­posed of to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter un­der the for­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion "nine times in the PNM's nine and a half years."

Mem­bers of the De­fence Force were con­fined to camp yes­ter­day, as a state of height­ened aware­ness re­mained in ef­fect un­til fur­ther no­tice.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin says the im­me­di­ate can­cel­la­tion of all leave for po­lice of­fi­cers yes­ter­day was just a pre­cau­tion and bore no re­la­tion to the height­ened alert the De­fence Force was placed on.

Amid a rush to su­per­mar­kets by cit­i­zens to stock up on vi­tal food sup­plies, work­place clo­sures and re­ports that sol­diers had been sum­moned to mil­i­tary in­stal­la­tions, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day urged calm and dis­missed claims that Trinidad and To­ba­go was prepar­ing for a Unit­ed States-led land at­tack on Venezuela.

Venezue­lan For­eign Min­is­ter Yván Gil is warn­ing that any for­eign mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion against Venezuela would have con­sid­er­able reper­cus­sions on T&T and the rest of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.