A 30-year-old Mar­aval woman has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty of $95,000 af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with three fraud of­fences.

A 27-year-old man was ab­duct­ed af­ter be­ing struck and as­sault­ed in Bam­boo Set­tle­ment, Bam­boo #3, Val­sayn, on Mon­day night.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate home in­va­sions re­port­ed in Freeport, Tal­paro, Princes Town and St Mary’s be­tween Sat­ur­day and Mon­day.

Two men have ap­peared in court charged with the mur­ders of two men fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Fyz­abad last month.

A house was de­stroyed by fire at Dun­don­ald Hill, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James, ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

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.