Busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra was ar­rest­ed on a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) last evening.

Po­lice will be im­ple­ment­ing more stop-and-search ex­er­cis­es along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route af­ter Wednes­day’s dar­ing day­light armed rob­bery aboard a maxi-taxi at Windy Hill in Arou­ca.

The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, oth­er­wise known as the stand-your-ground law, will be in­tro­duced on the House’s agen­da to­day for fu­ture de­bate.

Leader of the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front, Mick­ela Pan­day, says the coun­try should not have to de­pend on the US to ad­dress the crime sit­u­a­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­bag­o­ni­ans will know the date of the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion “soon­er than you think”, but in­sists that a Christ­mas elec­tion is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly im­pos­si­ble.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is dis­miss­ing al­le­ga­tions from her coun­ter­part in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines that fi­nanciers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress were in his coun­try to help the op­po­si­tion New De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty in the na­tion­al gen­er­al elec­tion on No­vem­ber 27.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Win­ford James says To­ba­go must adopt a fixed elec­tion date to pre­vent any ad­min­is­tra­tion from ma­nip­u­lat­ing when vot­ers re­turn to the polls.

The par­ents of a four-year-old boy who died at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) on April 17, are re­ject­ing the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (NCRHA) re­sponse to their at­tor­neys af­ter al­leg­ing that med­ical staff neg­li­gence led to their son’s death.

As ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela con­tin­ue to rise, Venezuela’s state-owned oil com­pa­ny Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) has re­port­ed that the José An­to­nio An­zoátegui In­dus­tri­al Com­plex con­tin­ues its op­er­a­tions, de­spite a fire that af­fect­ed its fa­cil­i­ties on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

As geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions sim­mer be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, most of the T&T busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty con­tin­ues to op­er­ate undis­turbed. But one cor­ner of the tourism sec­tor is al­ready feel­ing the chill this Christ­mas.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is hail­ing a ma­jor ac­cel­er­a­tion in nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion from BP Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Cypre sub­sea project, de­scrib­ing it as a mile­stone for the coun­try’s en­er­gy sup­ply.

Rel­a­tives of 32-year-old Na­talia Noel, who died af­ter the ve­hi­cle she was in went over a precipice along the North Coast Road, is blam­ing the fire ser­vice for her death.