A San Fer­nan­do man on his way to pay over $100,000 worth of out­stand­ing tax­es on gam­ing ma­chines on Mon­day was robbed of the cash, steps away from the In­land Rev­enue Build­ing in Port-of-Spain.

An Aranguez woman whose gold chains were snatched whilst in her car in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day, fol­low­ing which she was dragged and thrown on the road be­fore the ban­dit drove off with the ve­hi­cle, had it re­turned to her hours lat­er at her home.

Top US mil­i­tary of­fi­cials are meet­ing lead­ers of Caribbean na­tions this week as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has es­ca­lat­ed its fire­pow­er in the re­gion as part of what it calls a cam­paign against drug traf­fick­ing.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is­sued a state­ment call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to apol­o­gise for re­marks made in re­cent pub­lic ex­changes and to ad­dress what she de­scribed as on­go­ing con­cerns about con­duct in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre for talks fo­cused on re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and con­tin­ued co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is warn­ing that it will not al­low the gov­ern­ment to threat­en and muz­zle voic­es that speak out against its con­duct.

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm along with am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion car­ried out by of­fi­cers of the Siparia Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment on Tues­day.

Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen­er­al Dan Caine met with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in Port of Spain for talks on se­cu­ri­ty co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the Unit­ed States and Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says the Gov­ern­ment will need to re­turn to Par­lia­ment for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing if it in­tends to meet the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s re­quest to have back­pay, stem­ming from the still-to-be-ne­go­ti­at­ed “10 per cent” wage in­crease, paid by Christ­mas.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has is­sued a warn­ing to the pub­lic af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­port­ed an in­crease in on­line posts con­tain­ing threats of vi­o­lence, in­clud­ing threats aimed at pub­lic of­fi­cials.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) plans to re­fer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie to Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee over com­ments he made dur­ing a “hot mic” mo­ment in the Low­er House on No­vem­ber 21.

Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen­er­al Dan Caine is meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre.