Po­lice de­stroyed an es­ti­mat­ed TT$200,000 worth of cannabis plants and dis­man­tled a cannabis grow­house dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Rio Claro for­est on Wednes­day morn­ing.

A 22-year-old woman has been ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a Glock pis­tol and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es that al­so re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of an­oth­er firearm and cannabis fol­low­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion with an armed sus­pect.

Sev­en de­tainees who es­caped from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre have plead­ed guilty to the of­fence of es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody and have been sen­tenced to terms of hard labour.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) have signed a five-year Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing cli­mate ac­tion that pri­ori­tis­es the rights and well-be­ing of chil­dren across the Caribbean.

One in every four chil­dren in Trinidad and To­ba­go is over­weight or obese, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe warned on Sun­day as he called for greater em­pha­sis on phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty and health­i­er eat­ing to com­bat the coun­try's grow­ing child­hood obe­si­ty cri­sis.

The jet ski op­er­a­tor al­leged to have caused the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point Beach on April 8 has been de­nied bail.

Key pro­vi­sions of the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery and Man­age­ment and Un­ex­plained Wealth Act, 2019 came in­to force on Ju­ly 28, bring­ing in­to op­er­a­tion the le­gal frame­work for civ­il as­set re­cov­ery, prop­er­ty re­stric­tion or­ders and un­ex­plained wealth pro­ceed­ings af­ter Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo is­sued a procla­ma­tion ac­ti­vat­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of the leg­is­la­tion.

Gov­ern­ment has launched a ma­jor re­cruit­ment dri­ve aimed at ad­dress­ing long­stand­ing staffing short­ages with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, with 246 prison of­fi­cer re­cruits of­fi­cial­ly be­gin­ning train­ing on Tues­day.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh met with Is­rael’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Mat­tanya Co­hen, and MASHAV Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al Am­bas­sador Ey­nat Shlein on Wednes­day to dis­cuss ex­pand­ing bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion on mod­ern agri­cul­ture, ed­u­ca­tion, cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, smart cities, cli­mate re­silience and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty build­ing.

A de­ci­sion by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion (SRC) to rec­om­mend a re­duc­tion in the salaries of the next Di­rec­tor and Deputy Di­rec­tor of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has been up­held.

Ban­dits stole more than $6,000 worth of food items from a de­liv­ery truck parked out­side One Wood­brook Place, Wood­brook, on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

CON­CA­CAF has ex­pressed con­cern over FI­FA's pro­posed FI­FA For­ward En­ter­prise, say­ing it learned about the ini­tia­tive through me­dia re­ports rather than through of­fi­cial gov­er­nance chan­nels.