Po­lice said the au­top­sy, per­formed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day, re­vealed she died from blunt force trau­ma to her head.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is ad­mit­ting that there are some killings that can­not be pre­vent­ed, even un­der a State of Emer­gency. His com­ments come af­ter the mur­der of 12-year-old Mari­ah Seenath.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the leak of in­ter­nal po­lice leave doc­u­ments.Speak­ing on a ra­dio pro­gramme yes­ter­day, he said, “I see it as de­lib­er­ate sab­o­tage, and I have al­ready ap­point­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tor to look in­to this.”

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad yes­ter­day said he was dis­ap­point­ed and dis­mayed by the con­duct of Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard, who he ruled had failed in his du­ties by not re­spond­ing to a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest by a for­mer prison in­mate.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Oil Pol­lu­tion Com­pen­sa­tion (IOPC) Fund has es­ti­mat­ed the pay­out for the Gulf­stream oil spill at £4.2 mil­lion, or $38 mil­lion (TT). The fund con­firmed that com­pen­sa­tion pay­ments have be­gun, but the process is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue un­til 2027.

Trinida­di­an fish­er­men and oth­ers from Caribbean ter­ri­to­ries yes­ter­day boy­cotted a Zoom meet­ing aimed at op­pos­ing the de­ploy­ment of US war­ships in the Caribbean.

Venezuela’s De­fence Min­is­ter Vladimir Padri­no López is dis­miss­ing as “fake news” re­ports cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia and in re­gion­al out­lets that two se­nior Bo­li­var­i­an Na­tion­al Armed Forces (FANB) gen­er­als had de­sert­ed.

The rel­a­tives of two men killed dur­ing a pur­port­ed shootout with po­lice are ques­tion­ing the of­fi­cial ver­sion of the in­ci­dent put for­ward by the TTPS, as they are doubt­ful that ei­ther of their rel­a­tives at­tacked the of­fi­cers first.

Two women and two men have been ar­rest­ed and joint­ly charged in con­nec­tion with a bur­glary re­port­ed in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion on Sep­tem­ber 13.

A dou­bles ven­dor and her em­ploy­ee were tied up and robbed of thou­sands of dol­lars when four masked men stormed her home at Ply­mouth Road, To­ba­go, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) of­fice in Princes Town has been closed un­til fur­ther no­tice af­ter a van crashed in­to the build­ing at St Croix Junc­tion on Sun­day and broke down a sec­tion of its wall.

With an an­nu­al av­er­age al­lo­ca­tion of $945 mil­lion, the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture still falls be­low the $1 bil­lion thresh­old that T&T Farm­ers’ Union ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber Shi­raz Khan says would demon­strate gen­uine con­cern for the sec­tor, warn­ing that any­thing less in the 2026 bud­get would sig­nal in­dif­fer­ence by the State.