The man­hunt for es­caped pris­on­er Rob­by Khadoo in­ten­si­fied yes­ter­day as se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies, in­clud­ing the T&T De­fence Force (TTDF), con­tin­ued the search to re­cap­ture him.

Two peo­ple lost their lives in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents with­in 12 hours, with the lat­est crash oc­cur­ring near the San­ta Philli­pa Bridge along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has clar­i­fied that au­tho­rised fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions are legal­ly per­mit­ted to ex­port US cur­ren­cy un­der ex­ist­ing laws, as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the seizure of US$2 mil­lion in cash linked to NCB Mer­chant Bank at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Polic­ing has typ­i­cal­ly been con­sid­ered a de­mand­ing and out­right dan­ger­ous job, but more peo­ple are be­ing asked to an­swer the call to serve as the TTPS seeks to grow its ranks over the next five years.

Pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan is urg­ing that the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett be tak­en to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice.

The re­cent wave of busi­ness clo­sures, pro­duc­tion sus­pen­sions and re­struc­tur­ing an­nounce­ments have sparked con­cern among econ­o­mists and busi­ness own­ers, who urge that T&T pay clos­er at­ten­tion to re­tain­ing pro­duc­tive in­vest­ment and de­vel­op­ing new in­dus­tries to re­place those that are be­ing lost.

The Gov­ern­ment’s re­view of diplo­mat­ic pass­ports con­tin­ues to stir po­lit­i­cal de­bate, with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firm­ing that for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will al­so be asked to sur­ren­der his diplo­mat­ic pass­port. Row­ley, who is cur­rent­ly out of the coun­try, said he would re­spond to the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion up­on his re­turn.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a sus­pect and seized a mag­a­zine is­sued to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice as well as $19,000 in cash be­lieved to be stolen from a ve­hi­cle in Mara­bel­la on Fri­day.

Ja­cob Bethell helped Eng­land spoil the in­ter­na­tion­al de­but by teenage In­dia sen­sa­tion Vaib­hav Soorya­van­shi on Sat­ur­day with a four-wick­et win in the sec­ond Twen­ty20.

Ari­ma Boys’ Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School has emerged as the May cham­pi­ons of the Flow and Pen­na­cool.com In­ter School Cham­pi­onship, fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the an­nu­al road­show tour and prize giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

Two peo­ple were killed in sep­a­rate road traf­fic ac­ci­dents be­tween Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing, with the lat­est fa­tal­i­ty oc­cur­ring near the San­ta Philli­pa Bridge along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road.

A pris­on­er fac­ing charges of mur­der, at­tempt­ed mur­der and wound­ing with in­tent es­caped from the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty on Fri­day evening, prompt­ing a mul­ti-agency man­hunt.