What be­gan as a sto­ry of hope af­ter the six crew mem­bers of the St Vin­cent VII were found alive took a trag­ic turn yes­ter­day, with one of the res­cued fish­er­men, Trinida­di­an na­tion­al An­tho­ny Mur­ray, dy­ing aboard the ves­sel that saved them.

As the death toll from the MV Bari­ma fer­ry dis­as­ter in Guyana climbed to 65 yes­ter­day, Trinidad and To­ba­go mil­i­tary and Brazil­ian per­son­nel joined re­gion­al teams in search and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tions.

Af­ter los­ing their home in a fire, sur­viv­ing an­nu­al floods and rais­ing three chil­dren with­out elec­tric­i­ty, An­dri­ana Noor and Joseph Mulchans­ingh say their el­dest daugh­ter’s suc­cess in this year’s Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) has giv­en them re­newed hope.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has asked the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal to with­draw its pre­lim­i­nary rec­om­men­da­tions in re­la­tion to the con­tin­ued de­ten­tion of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and their rel­a­tive Star Sab­ga over its fail­ure to so­lic­it his views in re­la­tion to the le­gal pro­ceed­ings be­fore it. 

For the sec­ond time in a lit­tle over a week, the Court of Ap­peal will hear a pro­ce­dur­al ap­peal from Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed. 

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­vealed that law en­force­ment agen­cies are prepar­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse to an emerg­ing gang con­flict in Mor­vant, warn­ing that a group of young men have re­ject­ed on­go­ing peace ef­forts and are fu­elling vi­o­lence in the area.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials in the South­ern Di­vi­sion say crime is down in their ju­ris­dic­tion and they plan to keep it that way, de­spite 36 re­ports of home in­va­sions since the start of the year.

A pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter aris­ing from the fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent that claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point beach has been sent to the Di­vi­sion of Le­gal Af­fairs.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says it is con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion against the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) and its pres­i­dent, Idi Stu­art, over what it claims are dam­ag­ing al­le­ga­tions.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy has do­nat­ed US$265,000 worth of dis­as­ter re­sponse ware­house equip­ment to the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA).

A 66-year-old Diego Mar­tin man has been found not guilty of mo­lest­ing a five-year-old girl he was hired to trans­port to and from school.

A man has lost a law­suit over a se­ri­ous car ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing fall­en telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­bles.