Amer­i­can en­er­gy com­pa­ny EOG Re­sources is ex­pect­ed to be­gin ex­plorato­ry drilling in To­ba­go’s wa­ters from mid-Oc­to­ber to as­sess the area’s hy­dro­car­bon po­ten­tial.

The East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre was with­out elec­tric­i­ty for sev­er­al hours yes­ter­day, ac­cord­ing to a re­port re­ceived by the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go fash­ion re­al­i­ty se­ries Car­ni­val Cat­walk is now avail­able on Amer­i­can Air­lines’ in­flight en­ter­tain­ment across its in­ter­na­tion­al fleet.

Sev­en­teen Caribbean coun­tries are strength­en­ing their pre­pared­ness for African swine fever, up­dat­ing na­tion­al re­sponse plans aimed at de­tect­ing and con­tain­ing the dis­ease be­fore it threat­ens the re­gion’s pig farms and pork sup­ply.

The Coast Guard says lab­o­ra­to­ry analy­sis has con­firmed that 440.20 kilo­grammes of co­caine seized by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard in the north­ern Gulf of Paria is worth an es­ti­mat­ed TT$204.5 mil­lion on the street.

At least 25 peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) are con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion against the State in a bid to se­cure com­pen­sa­tion for their in­car­cer­a­tion, ac­cord­ing to at­tor­ney CJ Williams.

For four months, PDO de­tainee Dil­lon Chotoo says he slept in a leak­ing 20-foot con­tain­er cell at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa, sur­round­ed by rats and cock­roach­es, some­times with­out run­ning wa­ter and, at one point, with a clogged toi­let filled with waste that re­mained un­us­able for days.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al have agreed to with­draw their ap­peal against a judge’s de­ci­sion to place 69-year-old cheese mak­er Star Sab­ga un­der house ar­rest af­ter she spent sev­er­al weeks in de­ten­tion un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

The de­ten­tion of Star Sab­ga and Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed has at­tract­ed in­ter­na­tion­al at­ten­tion, with The New York Times pub­lish­ing a de­tailed ac­count of the case.

Trini­bad artiste Joseph “Medz Boss” Oliviere has threat­ened le­gal ac­tion against Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor and at­tor­ney Faris Al-Rawi, ac­cus­ing him of mak­ing “defam­a­to­ry and ma­li­cious­ly false” state­ments link­ing him to or­gan­ised crime and sug­gest­ing his re­lease from pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion re­sult­ed from an im­prop­er po­lit­i­cal arrange­ment.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad is call­ing for the manda­to­ry use of body-worn cam­eras by po­lice of­fi­cers if Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) are even­tu­al­ly im­ple­ment­ed as part of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­fend­ed state-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) against re­cent al­le­ga­tions by the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU), dis­miss­ing the claims as “week­ly bo­geys that are nei­ther fac­tu­al nor co­her­ent.”