A re­cent Unit­ed King­dom Home Of­fice re­port es­ti­mat­ing that 186 gangs with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,750 mem­bers are op­er­at­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go has reignit­ed dis­cus­sion about the coun­try’s crime sit­u­a­tion. How­ev­er, ex­perts are say­ing the doc­u­ment should be viewed with­in its in­tend­ed con­text.

CARA­CAS, Venezuela (AP) — Back-to-back pow­er­ful earth­quakes slammed Venezuela yes­ter­day evening, col­laps­ing build­ings in the cap­i­tal of Cara­cas and leav­ing res­i­dents shak­en.

Min­is­ter in the For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry Nicholas Mor­ris says the il­lic­it traf­fick­ing of firearms, nar­cotics and per­sons pos­es a sig­nif­i­cant threat to na­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and it is be­ing con­front­ed head-on.

The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion staged its an­nu­al City Day Pa­rade yes­ter­day, as part of cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing the city’s 112th an­niver­sary.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has threat­ened to sue Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land and a mem­ber of his law cham­bers over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion they pro­vid­ed in its bid to re­cov­er ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.4 mil­lion in un­paid elec­tric­i­ty charges from ice cream man­u­fac­tur­er Fla­vorite Foods Ltd. 

A brazen ATM heist in Ply­mouth, To­ba­go, has stunned res­i­dents who have de­scribed the in­ci­dent as straight out of a movie.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the vic­tim was lim­ing at the cor­ner of Dutch Fort Road and Mil­ford Road when a gun­man ap­proached and opened fire.

De­spite a 50 per cent in­crease in homi­cides in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion last year com­pared to this year, the di­vi­sion­al head says there is an over­all nine per cent re­duc­tion in se­ri­ous crimes.

A re­newed search for miss­ing Williamsville busi­ness­man Kelvin Sama­roo has so far yield­ed no break­through, with rel­a­tives con­firm­ing that he re­mained un­ac­count­ed for up to yes­ter­day as po­lice and vol­un­teer teams con­tin­ued in­ves­ti­ga­tions across south­ern Trinidad.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has raised con­cerns about grow­ing of­fi­cer burnout, staff short­ages and pro­longed de­lays in pro­mo­tions, warn­ing that the is­sues are af­fect­ing morale with­in the po­lice ser­vice.

Less than two weeks be­fore Cari­com lead­ers con­vene in St Lu­cia, a le­gal opin­ion by UWI law pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan has con­clud­ed that there is a sub­stan­tial le­gal ba­sis for chal­leng­ing the va­lid­i­ty of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett’s reap­point­ment.

The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion (ECA) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er struc­tured train­ing pro­grammes to help stu­dents tran­si­tion from school to the work­place as part of ef­forts to tack­le youth un­em­ploy­ment and un­der­em­ploy­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go.