Po­lice ar­rest­ed six peo­ple in two sep­a­rate op­er­a­tions this week, in­clud­ing three sus­pects linked to a vi­o­lent rob­bery and in­de­cent as­sault in Lopinot and three oth­ers dur­ing a joint ex­er­cise in Port-of-Spain.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says in­ten­si­fied an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions have led to mul­ti­ple ar­rests and the seizure of sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ties of cannabis in co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es across east­ern and north­ern Trinidad.

Cou­va po­lice of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and po­lice-is­sued items dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise late Tues­day night.

Three teenagers have been ar­rest­ed af­ter al­leged­ly rob­bing and as­sault­ing an­oth­er group of teenagers along Lopinot Road, Arou­ca.

Po­lice are search­ing for a bald man who al­leged­ly stole a li­censed firearm be­long­ing to a re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer in Cou­va on Tues­day.

A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hor­muz while us­ing a route not ap­proved by Iran, state tele­vi­sion in Tehran re­port­ed Wednes­day. The ves­sel was iden­ti­fied as a for­eign con­tain­er ship, with no oth­er de­tails.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve will re­main de­tained while they pur­sue a case chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate key gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Two UK bar­ris­ters were ad­mit­ted to prac­tise law in Trinidad and To­ba­go to rep­re­sent the State in pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve, as the cou­ple con­tin­ues chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

The PNM's Gen­er­al Coun­cil on Mon­day put sys­tems in place for the par­ty's con­stituen­cy elec­tions to be­gin to­day (Wednes­day) and con­tin­ue in the 41 con­stituen­cies un­til Ju­ly 31.

A planned Gov­ern­ment del­e­ga­tion to Venezuela for en­er­gy talks is ex­pect­ed to be de­layed fol­low­ing the re­cent 7.2 and 7.5 mag­ni­tude earth­quake tragedies in that coun­try.

The Court of Ap­peal does not have the ju­ris­dic­tion to con­sid­er ap­peals chal­leng­ing de­ci­sions of High Court Mas­ters to di­rect that per­sons ac­cused of se­ri­ous crim­i­nal of­fences face tri­al af­ter as­sess­ing the suf­fi­cien­cy of the ev­i­dence against them.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme has not been closed but tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed as the Gov­ern­ment re­views its fi­nan­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty.