Al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­tor Star Sab­ga has fi­nal­ly heard the leaked au­dio record­ing of an al­leged tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion be­tween her­self and her for­mer co-ac­cused, Genevieve Hadeed, po­lice sources have con­firmed.

Thir­ty-one peo­ple have been killed by po­lice since the start of the year, ac­cord­ing to fig­ures com­piled by the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA), fol­low­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of a Mor­vant man yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Elvin Scant­er­bury says the ar­rest of a fe­male prison of­fi­cer on Mon­day is a tes­ta­ment to the ef­forts of prison of­fi­cers to weed out rogue of­fi­cers from with­in the Prison Ser­vice.

A po­lice con­sta­ble who was last at­tached to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion has been charged with pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

When fire broke out in his Rousil­lac home, 22-year-old Keron Nehru ran back in­to the build­ing in a des­per­ate at­tempt to save the fam­i­ly home on Mon­day.

Sev­er­al res­i­dents in south­west­ern Trinidad were left count­ing their loss­es yes­ter­day, af­ter a thun­der­storm as­so­ci­at­ed with an ap­proach­ing trop­i­cal wave dam­aged their homes, with some roofs al­most com­plete­ly ripped off.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has crit­i­cised a Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) ini­tia­tive to have em­ploy­ees wear com­mem­o­ra­tive yel­low po­lo shirts on Fri­day (Au­gust 28), claim­ing the move in­ter­feres with the tra­di­tion of staff wear­ing the na­tion­al colours ahead of In­de­pen­dence Day on Au­gust 31.

Thir­teen years af­ter mi­grat­ing from In­dia to Trinidad and To­ba­go to work as doc­tors, Dr Milind Ku­mar and his wife, Dr Roshan Joseph, are cel­e­brat­ing their youngest daugh­ter’s aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s lead­er­ship yes­ter­day con­tin­ued its res­o­lu­tion process con­cern­ing is­sues in San Fer­nan­do East by meet­ing with sev­er­al con­stituen­cy units, in­clud­ing MP Bri­an Man­ning.

Amid deep­en­ing in­ter­nal tur­moil with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), for­mer sen­a­tor Joel Primus has re­signed from the par­ty af­ter more than 25 years, say­ing it has drift­ed away from the val­ues of in­ter­ra­cial har­mo­ny, sol­i­dar­i­ty, uni­ty and ser­vice to the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty that ini­tial­ly at­tract­ed him to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

The Gov­ern­ment be­lieves the po­lice should get in­volved fol­low­ing cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions made by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning against mem­bers of his own Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), ar­gu­ing that the claims should not be over­shad­owed by the par­ty’s deep­en­ing in­ter­nal tur­moil.

The pres­sure is mount­ing on San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning fol­low­ing his pub­lic clash with his own par­ty, with an­oth­er arm of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) now crit­i­cis­ing his de­ci­sion to take the dis­pute in­to the pub­lic do­main.