The State of Emer­gency (SOE) has con­tributed to safer com­mu­ni­ties, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ar­eas af­fect­ed by se­ri­ous crime, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Philip Alexan­der, who point­ed to a sharp de­cline in re­port­ed crime since the emer­gency mea­sures were in­tro­duced.

The seizure of 416.5 kilo­grams of co­caine, with an es­ti­mat­ed worth of $193.5 mil­lion, has raised se­ri­ous con­cern for Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed and the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC).

A 55-year-old woman was over­pow­ered by ban­dits and pis­tol-whipped with her own firearm dur­ing a rob­bery at her Tu­na­puna home on Wednes­day night.

As events man­age­ment and lifestyle com­pa­ny Yup Life con­tin­ues to face crit­i­cism from dis­sat­is­fied Fes­ti­val of Colour (FOC) fete pa­trons on so­cial me­dia, the com­pa­ny’s di­rec­tor Shadeed Ab­dul­lah is urg­ing dis­ap­point­ed at­ten­dees to give them a chance to re­deem them­selves fol­low­ing the events of Mon­day.

The struc­tur­al in­tegri­ty of the To­ba­go Con­vict Prison re­mains a cause of con­cern, says Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Elvin Scant­er­bury.

An 81-year-old To­ba­go man was robbed and as­sault­ed af­ter with­draw­ing mon­ey from the bank on Tues­day.

Two teenagers were ar­rest­ed and a stolen car re­cov­ered fol­low­ing a rob­bery at gun­point in San­gre Grande on Thurs­day.

A 55-year-old woman was over­pow­ered by ban­dits and pis­tol-whipped with her own pis­tol at her Tu­na­puna home on Wednes­day night.

Em­ploy­ees of Hilton Trinidad can breathe eas­i­er for the next six months at least with the sign­ing of a new agree­ment be­tween Gov­ern­ment and the in­ter­na­tion­al lux­u­ry ho­tel chain.

A 39-year-old man was ar­rest­ed min­utes af­ter he beat a store clerk and robbed a San­gre Grande busi­ness­place on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

An 81-year-old To­ba­go man was robbed and as­sault­ed af­ter with­draw­ing mon­ey from the bank on Tues­day.

The Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PCTT) is call­ing on stu­dents, ed­u­ca­tors, par­ents, guardians and oth­er stake­hold­ers to en­sure chil­dren are pre­pared not on­ly aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly, but al­so spir­i­tu­al­ly, men­tal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly, as the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins.