An­oth­er oc­cu­pant of the house then dis­cov­ered An­drews' body slumped on a mat­tress in an ad­join­ing, un­fin­ished room of the main house.

Sev­er­al Caribbean coun­tries, in­clud­ing An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, were rat­tled by two earth­quakes over a 48-hour pe­ri­od, the Trinidad-based Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (SRC) of the St. Au­gus­tine cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) re­port­ed on Tues­day.

On Au­gust 5, 1962, South African an­ti-apartheid ac­tivist Nel­son Man­dela was ar­rest­ed on charges of leav­ing the coun­try with­out a pass­port and in­cit­ing work­ers to strike; it was the be­gin­ning of 27 years of im­pris­on­ment.

Al­most one week af­ter two men were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of 22-year-old Trevorn Walk­er, po­lice have re­leased one sus­pect and ex­pect to lay charges against the oth­er.

The po­lice and T&T Coast Guard yes­ter­day launched aer­i­al, ma­rine and land search­es for miss­ing cou­ple Samuel Mon­tano and Za­hee­da Mo­hammed, amid grow­ing fears that they may be dead af­ter blood and spent shells were found in Mon­tano’s home.

Even as pub­lic con­cern con­tin­ues to grow over the num­ber of po­lice-in­volved killings that have oc­curred since the State of Emer­gency (SoE) be­gan on Ju­ly 18, yet an­oth­er man was killed by of­fi­cers yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is again call­ing for a se­ri­ous na­tion­al reck­on­ing on crime, warn­ing that fear, poor de­tec­tion and de­layed jus­tice are erod­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence and wors­en­ing the coun­try’s se­cu­ri­ty cri­sis and its rep­u­ta­tion in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Thir­teen women and a teenage girl were res­cued from sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions be­ing run out of two spa lo­ca­tions in Mara­bel­la and Cunu­pia yes­ter­day.

Rel­a­tives of 23-year-old Isa­iah John, who was gunned down in broad day­light at a bar in Pe­nal on Sun­day, in­sist­ed yes­ter­day that he was not the in­tend­ed tar­get.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is deny­ing claims that he has in­struct­ed the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme’s (CEPEP) new board to shut down its op­er­a­tions. How­ev­er, he could not pro­vide a time­line for when the com­pa­ny will re­hire work­ers, not­ing CEPEP re­mains un­der re­view.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath hopes to present the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) “Evo­lu­tion Plan,” the new board’s blue­print for im­prov­ing the com­pa­ny’s op­er­a­tions, by the end of this month.

The Caribbean fash­ion com­pe­ti­tion se­ries Car­ni­val Cat­walk has pre­miered on NBC’s Pea­cock plat­form, be­com­ing the first re­al­i­ty tele­vi­sion se­ries cre­at­ed and pro­duced in Trinidad and To­ba­go to be ac­quired by a ma­jor US stream­ing net­work.