A Carlsen Field res­i­dent’s quick ac­tion with an air horn forced three ban­dits to aban­don a rob­bery and flee through near­by bush­es ear­ly on Mon­day.

Po­lice said the man agreed to pick up a woman and drop her to her work­place at the In­de­pen­dence Square out­let of KFC at 8 pm.

A drunk dri­ver who was go­ing the wrong way on Gold­en Grove Road, Pi­ar­co, end­ed up crash­ing his own car in­to a po­lice ve­hi­cle while be­ing ar­rest­ed.

Emer­gency re­spon­ders are on the scene of a trag­ic crash in­volv­ing a Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus in Freeport, which has claimed two lives and left sev­er­al oth­ers in­jured.

PTSC of­fi­cials are cur­rent­ly at the scene of a ma­jor ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing one of its bus­es.

A key me­di­a­tor on Tues­day stressed the ur­gency of bro­ker­ing a cease­fire in Gaza af­ter Hamas showed a “pos­i­tive re­sponse” to a pro­pos­al, but Is­rael has yet to weigh in as its mil­i­tary pre­pares an of­fen­sive on some of the ter­ri­to­ry’s most pop­u­lat­ed ar­eas.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says threats against De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge were ex­pect­ed due to the “much need­ed ag­gres­sive polic­ing ac­tion” to root out gang ac­tiv­i­ty over the past month. 

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ques­tion­ing why, de­spite the wealth of in­tel­li­gence on the threat to kill De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, no ar­rests have been made.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress gen­er­al sec­re­tary Pe­ter Kan­hai has dis­tanced the par­ty from re­ports that an at­tor­ney “with close ties” to the par­ty is among con­spir­a­tors in a plot to kill De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo yes­ter­day blamed for­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert for cre­at­ing a “for­eign ex­change cri­sis” - and Tan­coo said he’s work­ing to en­sure” the ef­fi­cient and ef­fec­tive use of “T&T’s forex.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Cul­ture Ran­dall Mitchell has joined the na­tion­al de­bate over the can­cel­la­tion of this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade, urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide a clear and trans­par­ent ex­pla­na­tion to cit­i­zens.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is chal­leng­ing the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to stage its own In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade, stress­ing that her Gov­ern­ment has not re­strict­ed the right to free move­ment on Au­gust 31.