The Gov­ern­ment has ap­point­ed a new board to the Reg­is­tra­tion Recog­ni­tion and Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Board (RRCB), with Labour Min­is­ter say­ing the move re­in­forces its com­mit­ment to a fair and trans­par­ent in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions sys­tem.

Sev­en men, in­clud­ing sus­pect­ed gang mem­bers, are in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Pi­ar­co ear­ly on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Ted Turn­er, a brash and out­spo­ken tele­vi­sion pi­o­neer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the Amer­i­can West and trans­formed the news busi­ness by launch­ing CNN and in­tro­duc­ing the 24-hour news cy­cle, died Wednes­day. He was 87.

A 27-year-old woman has been shot dead and her com­pan­ion left crit­i­cal­ly in­jured af­ter gun­men blocked their ve­hi­cle and opened fire along Mal­gretoute Road in Princes Town just af­ter mid­night.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis ad­vo­cat­ed on be­half of reef tour op­er­a­tors for greater con­sul­ta­tion with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly dur­ing a meet­ing at the Canaan Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre to­day.

Five days af­ter Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has yet to in­di­cate whether she will ac­cept it, while the Gov­ern­ment re­mains silent on how it will re­spond if John-Bates or Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi ap­pear in the Up­per House, start­ing to­day.

The search for a miss­ing co­conut ven­dor in Ica­cos Vil­lage, Ce­dros, yes­ter­day led to the dis­cov­ery of a de­cap­i­tat­ed, de­com­pos­ing body of a man.

Psy­chi­a­trist Dr Var­ma Deyals­ingh says a mix of so­cial, psy­cho­log­i­cal and bi­o­log­i­cal fac­tors can dri­ve the ex­treme vi­o­lence seen in some home in­va­sions, as he ad­dressed the is­sue dur­ing an ap­pear­ance on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew to­day.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for help, which could as­sist of­fi­cers in de­ter­min­ing the lo­ca­tion and au­then­tic­i­ty of a video in which sev­er­al men were record­ed de­cap­i­tat­ing an uniden­ti­fied man in a forest­ed area

The mur­der count con­tin­ues to in­crease even as T&T re­mains un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

An undis­closed quan­ti­ty of equip­ment has gone miss­ing from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion’s Carib Street Com­plex in San Fer­nan­do, from where the Cor­po­ra­tion ex­e­cutes the main­te­nance and waste­water ser­vices for the city.

Po­lice say they are clos­ing in on two re­main­ing sus­pects linked to a se­ries of vi­o­lent home in­va­sions across Cen­tral Trinidad, as in­ves­ti­ga­tors in­ten­si­fy op­er­a­tions fol­low­ing the dis­man­tling of a crim­i­nal gang be­lieved to be be­hind the at­tacks.