At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anil Nand­lall is de­fend­ing the de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a Com­mis­sion of In­quiry in­to the MV Bari­ma tragedy that left 72 peo­ple dead and more than 30 oth­ers miss­ing and pre­sumed dead when the ves­sel cap­sized on Ju­ly 18.

Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of po­ten­tial­ly us­ing the wa­ter sup­ply as a tool for po­lit­i­cal vic­tim­i­sa­tion, say­ing res­i­dents in Ari­ma and parts of East Trinidad be­lieve their wors­en­ing wa­ter short­ages be­gan af­ter the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Two men were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice al­leged­ly found am­mu­ni­tion and sus­pect­ed house-break­ing im­ple­ments dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion ear­ly Tues­day.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) will pay trib­ute to West In­dies crick­et leg­end Sir Garfield Sobers with a minute's ap­plause be­fore the open­ing match at each tour­na­ment venue this sea­son.

The as­so­ci­a­tion of Eu­ro­pean soc­cer leagues called for gov­er­nance re­form of FI­FA on Wednes­day, adding to the mount­ing pres­sure on pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no fol­low­ing his failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup.

The U.S. South­ern Com­mand on Mon­day ac­ti­vat­ed a Joint Task Force West­ern Hemi­sphere (JTF-WHEM) head­quar­ters that will syn­chro­nize U.S. mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions with al­lies and part­ners —in­clud­ing T&T—to counter threats, strength­en re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty, and re­spond rapid­ly to crises across the West­ern Hemi­sphere.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said a deal on the Strait of Hor­muz could come as ear­ly as Wednes­day, as Iran and Oman inched to­ward an agree­ment to re­open the crit­i­cal wa­ter­way and po­ten­tial­ly help bring an end to the war.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment will rein­tro­duce a pro­gramme re­quir­ing con­vict­ed pris­on­ers sen­tenced to hard labour to par­tic­i­pate in pub­lic clean-up ex­er­cis­es as part of its crime pre­ven­tion strat­e­gy.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les are clash­ing over the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to es­tab­lish 30 joint po­lice and army posts across the coun­try.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has re­ject­ed the Op­po­si­tion’s claim that the Gov­ern­ment’s planned roll­out of 30 joint po­lice-army posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go is an in­tro­duc­tion of the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO), in­sist­ing the ini­tia­tive is fo­cused on de­liv­er­ing mea­sur­able re­sults in the fight against crime.

Al­leged 6 Gang leader Shakyl O’Neil, al­so known as “Shak,” is among five peo­ple named in the lat­est Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) pub­lished in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to es­tab­lish ad­di­tion­al po­lice posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go forms part of a broad­er an­ti-crime strat­e­gy aimed at in­creas­ing law en­force­ment vis­i­bil­i­ty and im­prov­ing pub­lic safe­ty.