A 29-year-old Siparia woman died on Mon­day night af­ter her car crashed off a bridge and plunged in­to the South Oropouche Riv­er in Debe.

New York City May­or Er­ic Adams said Tues­day that a gun­man who killed four peo­ple at a Man­hat­tan of­fice build­ing was try­ing to tar­get the head­quar­ters of the Na­tion­al Foot­ball League but took the wrong el­e­va­tor.

A for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer has been sen­tenced to 16 years, 5 months, and 15 days in prison for traf­fick­ing three Colom­bian women more than a decade ago.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day ac­cused the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment of en­abling the for­ma­tion of a crim­i­nal syn­di­cate in­side the prison sys­tem af­ter group­ing gang lead­ers to­geth­er in Build­ing 13 at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­rit­ty Prison, dur­ing the tenure of then min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day laid out a de­tailed an­ti-crime strat­e­gy cen­tred on in­sti­tu­tion­al re­form, en­hanced po­lice ca­pa­bil­i­ties, and in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven op­er­a­tions, while de­clar­ing that State-fund­ed pro­grammes like the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) must no longer be used to bankroll crim­i­nal gangs.

Four years af­ter be­ing charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, for­mer head of the now-dis­band­ed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT), In­sp Mark Her­nan­dez, has been cleared of any wrong­do­ing.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) en­tered its sec­ond week yes­ter­day with the con­tin­ued de­tain­ment of sev­er­al high-risk in­mates at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas, one of them yes­ter­day scored a small vic­to­ry over the con­di­tions in which he is be­ing held.

Of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) have un­til 4 pm to­day to for­mal­ly charge or re­lease a den­tist who was ar­rest­ed last week, af­ter he was sus­pect­ed of re­ceiv­ing a ran­som pay­ment con­nect­ed to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim.

With the na­tion­al bud­get ap­proach­ing, both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo have failed to pro­vide a de­fin­i­tive time­line for when pub­lic ser­vants will re­ceive the promised ten per cent wage in­crease.

Dain Ma­haraj has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), but there is still no clear time­line for hir­ing new con­trac­tors—a move that could po­ten­tial­ly pave the way for the re-em­ploy­ment of re­cent­ly ter­mi­nat­ed work­ers.

The streets of Port-of-Spain tell many sto­ries. For some, they’re sim­ply a path from one place to the next. For oth­ers, they re­veal a harsh­er re­al­i­ty—one marked by noise, hus­tle, and mo­ments that aren’t al­ways easy on the eyes or ears. How­ev­er, one man is hop­ing to change that—not through protest or pol­i­cy, but with some­thing far more el­e­gant: clas­si­cal mu­sic.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs, Sean Sobers, says the two-day of­fi­cial vis­it of In­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di cost tax­pay­ers “around $900,000.”