As fight­ing edges clos­er to camps hous­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als in north­east Syr­ia, What­sApp mes­sages cir­cu­lat­ing on­line de­scribe fear, aban­don­ment and the col­lapse of ba­sic hu­man­i­tar­i­an sup­port.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has re­fused a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest that would have clear­ly ex­plained which traf­fic of­fences now car­ry high­er fines, de­spite grow­ing pub­lic con­fu­sion over the re­cent changes.

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of co­caine were seized dur­ing an An­ti-Crime Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Princes Town Po­lice Dis­trict on Tues­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has de­nied au­thor­ship of doc­u­ments cir­cu­lat­ing on­line that claim to out­line zone pri­ori­ti­sa­tion for polic­ing and in­tel­li­gence op­er­a­tions. It said the ma­te­r­i­al did not orig­i­nate from the Po­lice Ser­vice and was not ap­proved or dis­trib­uted through any of­fi­cial chan­nel.

The MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny is con­firmed to ar­rive in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, as fi­nal prepa­ra­tions are made for its in­tro­duc­tion in­to the in­ter-is­land sea bridge ser­vice.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go has called for manda­to­ry body worn cam­eras and stricter over­sight as the Gov­ern­ment moves to roll out Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs).

Suri­name has con­firmed an out­break of the mos­qui­to borne Chikun­gun­ya virus, with none of those per­sons who test­ed pos­i­tive hav­ing trav­elled over­seas in re­cent times.

Lot­tery gam­bling will of­fi­cial­ly ex­pand to Sun­days from Feb­ru­ary 8, fol­low­ing a re­vised no­tice is­sued by the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board con­firm­ing new draw times for se­lect­ed games.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her gov­ern­ment is pre­pared to con­sid­er leg­is­la­tion to reg­u­late so­cial me­dia use for chil­dren un­der the age of 12 years, as con­cerns grow about the risks young users face on­line.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has pro­claimed the Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Act, bring­ing in­to force leg­is­la­tion that al­lows home­own­ers to use force, in­clud­ing lethal force, to de­fend them­selves and their prop­er­ty dur­ing a home in­va­sion.

The whol­ly state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) has of­fi­cial­ly in­formed lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers that use nat­ur­al gas that the price of the com­mod­i­ty will be in­creased by be­tween 60 and 70 per cent by the end of Jan­u­ary.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to de­cline an in­vi­ta­tion to at­tend next week’s En­er­gy Con­fer­ence has drawn mixed re­ac­tions from for­mer min­is­ters and sen­a­tors.