As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress ad­min­is­tra­tion ap­proach­es its first 100 days in of­fice, it is re­ceiv­ing praise for its col­lab­o­ra­tive ap­proach with cit­i­zens on key is­sues and its ef­forts to re­vive the econ­o­my. How­ev­er, its ap­proach to crime is fac­ing crit­i­cism.

The pres­i­dent of the In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­ga­ni­za­tion (IRO), Dr El­lis Bur­ris, has ex­pressed full sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent mea­sures to tack­le crime, in­clud­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency.

The pres­i­dent of the On­line Gam­ing Agents As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (OGAATT), Dean Per­sad, is rais­ing se­ri­ous con­cerns over what he de­scribes as years of fi­nan­cial mis­man­age­ment with­in the coun­try’s on­line gam­ing sec­tor.

It was an ex­treme­ly proud Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) who, on Thurs­day, com­mend­ed the men and women un­der his com­mand for plac­ing them­selves, “self­less­ly be­tween harm and dan­ger to pro­tect the per­sons who we are sworn to pro­tect.”

Par­tic­i­pants in the in­au­gur­al Re-In­te­gra­tion Sup­port and Em­pow­er­ment (RISE) project are be­ing en­cour­aged to make the most of the train­ing they have re­ceived over the past few months and con­tin­ue their progress to­wards pro­duc­ing ful­fill­ing lives.

Twen­ty-two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a se­ries of war­rant and an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across mul­ti­ple po­lice di­vi­sions this week.

More than 600 young peo­ple across Trinidad and To­ba­go will take part in a new na­tion­al in­tern­ship launched by TSTT. The Fu­ture Lead­ers In­tern­ship Pro­gramme, un­veiled at Queen’s Park Oval on Ju­ly 31, is aimed at cit­i­zens aged 17 to 21 who are not em­ployed or en­rolled in full-time ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion.

A mag­is­trate has or­dered the for­fei­ture of more than $36,000 TT and sev­er­al for­eign cur­ren­cies to the State, fol­low­ing a mon­ey laun­der­ing and child traf­fick­ing probe that be­gan with a raid at a 2019 “Se­cret Sun­day” par­ty in Port of Spain.

SE­WA TT has re­ceived telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions equip­ment val­ued at $50,000 to bet­ter sup­port the char­i­ta­ble or­gan­i­sa­tion’s ef­forts dur­ing na­tion­al emer­gen­cies. The do­na­tion came from Com­put­er Tech­nolo­gies and Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (CT­SL), which launched its op­er­a­tions in Cou­va on Thurs­day.

In­mates Ra­jaae Ali and Earl Richards, two of ten in­mates cur­rent­ly in­car­cer­at­ed at the Teteron Bar­racks in Ch­aguara­mas, yes­ter­day hand­ed over hand­writ­ten state­ments, in which they swore they were not in­volved in any plot to desta­bilise the coun­try or to kill state of­fi­cials.

Se­cu­ri­ty has been in­creased for all the peo­ple who were tar­get­ed in as­sas­si­na­tion plots or­gan­ised by a crime syn­di­cate op­er­at­ing from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison - in­clud­ing min­is­ters who were al­so tar­get­ed.

More than 700 dis­qual­i­fied dri­vers across Trinidad and To­ba­go will be giv­en a sec­ond chance to re­gain their per­mit.