The State has of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed three ma­jor Mid­dle East­ern para­mil­i­tary and po­lit­i­cal or­gan­i­sa­tions as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate freeze on any Trinidad and To­ba­go as­sets linked to the groups.

Twen­ty-three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two sons of for­mer al­leged gang and com­mu­ni­ty leader Sel­wyn “Robo­cop” Alex­is, have been de­tained un­der Per­son­al De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, as se­cu­ri­ty forces con­tin­ue a sweep­ing crack­down on or­gan­ised crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

A car chase in­to Cas­cade on Sun­day night end­ed with a shootout and the death of one man, po­lice said yes­ter­day.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our has sig­nalled a re­newed fo­cus on ac­count­abil­i­ty and per­for­mance at Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed (CAL), fol­low­ing the air­line’s for­mal re­as­sign­ment to his min­istry.

A 38-year-old woman and 17-year-old son re­main in po­lice cus­tody, as of­fi­cers try to piece to­geth­er the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the al­leged abuse and false im­pris­on­ment of Sabi­ta Bas­deo.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has raised con­cerns over the pro­posed award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, ques­tion­ing the trans­paren­cy and le­gal­i­ty of the process.

Sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie died from mul­ti­ple trau­mat­ic in­juries, par­tic­u­lar­ly to the head, af­ter a jet ski op­er­a­tor ran in­to her fam­i­ly at Pi­geon Point beach in To­ba­go last week.

The T&T power­boat fra­ter­ni­ty and Truck­ers As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T lost long­stand­ing mem­ber Robert Charles “Peb­bles” Tardieu.

Point Fortin May­or Clyde James of­fi­cial­ly de­clared the launch of Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions on Sat­ur­day, de­spite on­go­ing set­backs this year.

For­mer St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves be­lieves For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers may be with­hold­ing key de­tails about the Nevis re­treat from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must aban­don what he de­scribed as her “Trump-like” and ego­tis­ti­cal ap­proach to Cari­com and ac­cept that Trinidad and To­ba­go is no longer the re­gion­al su­per­pow­er it once was.

While An­tigua and Bar­bu­da sup­ports T&T’s up­com­ing bid for a seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC), for­mer St Vin­cent prime min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves be­lieves T&T’s bid would em­bar­rass Cari­com due to this coun­try’s pro-Unit­ed States po­si­tion.