A 64-year-old man was gunned down on Wednes­day night and two oth­ers, in­clud­ing a 15-year-old girl, were shot.

Of­fi­cers of the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion are search­ing for two men who as­sault­ed and robbed a vi­su­al­ly im­paired pen­sion­er.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Van­dana Mo­hit to­day pre­sent­ed cheques to the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go to cov­er re­cent­ly au­dit­ed out­stand­ing pay­ments to­talling $36,039,734.51.

Across the Unit­ed States, many Amer­i­cans are cel­e­brat­ing their coun­try’s 250th birth­day by clos­ing their ears to all the par­ti­san shout­ing. All the fin­ger­nails-on-chalk­board screech­ing out of Wash­ing­ton. All the clam­our of so­cial me­dia ag­it­prop.

A 15-year-old stu­dent of a sec­ondary school in Ce­dros was stabbed dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in­volv­ing stu­dents yes­ter­day.

The re­new­al of a part­ner­ship be­tween the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) is ex­pect­ed to cre­ate new op­por­tu­ni­ties for re­search, ed­u­ca­tion and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment cen­tred on In­di­an cul­ture.

Res­cuers pulled a 43-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard alive from a col­lapsed base­ment ear­ly Thurs­day, end­ing a gru­el­ing days-long op­er­a­tion that be­came a sym­bol of hope af­ter the dev­as­ta­tion of twin earth­quakes that struck Venezuela eight days ear­li­er.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has called for re­flec­tion on church cul­ture fol­low­ing the mur­der of his sis­ter in faith, Neisha Roberts.

The day two man­agers at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) were dis­missed, the util­i­ty com­pa­ny an­nounced the ap­point­ment of two new man­agers.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed are pur­su­ing every pos­si­ble av­enue avail­able that can lead to their re­lease be­fore Sep­tem­ber.

Al­though Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has agreed to is­sue a Min­is­ter’s Per­mit al­low­ing Christo­pher “Chris Must List” Hugh­es back in­to T&T to at­tend his up­com­ing tri­al next month, he has not in­di­cat­ed if he will ho­n­our a re­quest to re­cuse him­self from the mat­ter.

Christo­pher Sama­roo, the fa­ther of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, was re­unit­ed with his fam­i­ly on Tues­day night, af­ter he was grant­ed $100,000 sta­tion bail.