A man ac­cused of mur­der based sole­ly on an al­leged jail­house con­fes­sion has been freed af­ter spend­ing 16 years on re­mand.

A for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cruit has been ac­quit­ted of rape and griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault charges.

Ef­forts to com­bat gun traf­fick­ing took cen­tre stage yes­ter­day as law en­force­ment pro­fes­sion­als from 11 coun­tries gath­ered at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel for a re­gion­al work­shop aimed at strength­en­ing in­tel­li­gence-shar­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion on il­le­gal arms smug­gling.

Res­i­dents of Ed­in­burgh 500 say they re­main on edge fol­low­ing the mur­ders of close friends Jealani Williams and Shan­ice Mor­ris, which oc­curred just over a month apart in the com­mu­ni­ty.

A woman was killed and two of her rel­a­tives in­jured in an ear­ly-morn­ing crash in Debe, just one day be­fore what would have been her 58th birth­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing whether an at­tempt to steal cop­per may have led to the death of a man whose body was dis­cov­ered at the for­mer Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre com­pound on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s very own Kes The Band will make its de­but on the high­ly-ac­claimed NPR Tiny Desk Con­cert se­ries. The per­for­mance will air on May 8 at 7 AM on NPR Mu­sic’s YouTube chan­nel.

A Bar­rack­pore man who killed his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter has been sen­tenced to death.

A man ac­cused of mur­der based sole­ly on a con­fes­sion al­leged­ly made to a con­vict­ed killer he shared a prison cell with has been freed af­ter spend­ing 16 years on re­mand.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has made it clear that Venezuela will con­tin­ue to de­fend its claim to own­er­ship of the dis­put­ed Es­se­qui­bo re­gion in Guyana.

Caribbean coun­tries risk be­ing left be­hind if they con­tin­ue to treat ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence as a talk­ing point in­stead of a de­vel­op­ment pri­or­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Lib­er­ty Caribbean CEO Inge Smidts.

Chi­na is urg­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er coun­tries back­ing the Unit­ed States in the Pana­ma Canal dis­pute not to be “blind­ed” or used to ad­vance US in­ter­ests in the es­ca­lat­ing diplo­mat­ic stand­off.