Two men have been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing sev­er­al rob­beries in South Trinidad.
Sher­win Alexan­der, 39, of Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Sea Lots, and Christo­pher Hoyte, 35, of John Jules Trace, Fyz­abad, were ar­rest­ed on Ju­ly 20th dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise.

The To­ba­go-based en­vi­ron­ment group, ER­IC—En­vi­ron­men­tal Re­search In­sti­tute Char­lot­teville—has se­cured fund­ing sup­port from the Green Fund to con­tin­ue its on­go­ing re­search in­to un­der­wa­ter sea tur­tles.

A 39-year-old man from Tal­paro was ar­rest­ed on Wednes­day night for il­le­gal­ly pos­sess­ing a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers searched his home.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has called out the sev­en per­sons from the Non-Aligned Politi­cians (NAP) group who en­dorsed the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) on Wednes­day.

A rel­a­tive has been de­tained for ques­tion­ing in­to the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the death of fruit and veg­etable ven­dor, 34-year-old Amar Hard­een, who was shot dead at his stall at Madras Junc­tion in Cunu­pia on Thurs­day morn­ing.

A 23-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer will ap­pear be­fore the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Vir­tu­al Court to­day, on a sex­u­al as­sault charge.

And the lat­est COVID-19 Up­date from the Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that two more per­sons have been dis­charged from the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal.

While gang vi­o­lence plagued parts of his Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West con­stituen­cy in the past five years, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says this lev­el of crime did not hap­pen overnight.

Vot­ers must keep the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ hands off of the peo­ple’s sav­ing in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion, which a UNC gov­ern­ment plans to use to deal with T&T’s fi­nances, says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Af­ter yes­ter­day’s an­nounce­ment of a new phase of COVID-19 spread, Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Phillip Alexan­der wrote Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes and the Elec­tions Bound­aries Com­mis­sion call­ing for the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion to be post­poned.

In a state­ment, the ANSA McAL Group con­firmed that the em­ploy­ee was re­ceiv­ing med­ical treat­ment and is do­ing well. The com­pa­ny not­ed that the em­ploy­ee had not worked at the fa­cil­i­ty since Ju­ly 17. How­ev­er, he came in con­tact with some­one who test­ed pos­i­tive on Ju­ly 19 and fell ill the fol­low­ing day. In keep­ing with the com­pa­ny’s pro­to­cols, the em­ploy­ee did not re­port to work.

In the past week, Trinidad and To­ba­go has had five peo­ple who con­tract­ed COVID-19 from an un­known source with­in the coun­try, sprout­ing eight more cas­es through pri­ma­ry con­tacts and forc­ing some busi­ness­es to close for sani­ti­sa­tion ex­er­cis­es, the clo­sure of three schools and the self-quar­an­ti­ning of hun­dreds of peo­ple.