Five fired Mem­phis po­lice of­fi­cers were charged Thurs­day with mur­der and oth­er crimes in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black mo­torist who died three days af­ter a con­fronta­tion with the of­fi­cers dur­ing a traf­fic stop.

Is­rael’s de­fense min­is­ter sig­nalled Fri­day that the mil­i­tary would stop its airstrikes if Pales­tin­ian mil­i­tant groups halt­ed rock­et at­tacks, a day af­ter the dead­liest Is­raeli raid in decades raised the prospect of a ma­jor flare-up in fight­ing.

The fol­low­ing is the bul­letin is­sued by the Met Ser­vice to 06:00 am, to­day, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od: to­day un­til mid­night…

The de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found ly­ing face-down in a mud vol­cano, ap­prox­i­mate­ly eight kilo­me­tres west of Chatham Beach South, on Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 26.

Pres­i­dent-elect, Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has asked cit­i­zens to give her a chance as she takes up her post.

A more fo­cused and ef­fi­cient ap­proach by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has forced crim­i­nals to mi­grate from their tra­di­tion­al ge­o­graph­ic spaces in search of op­por­tu­ni­ties else­where, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Er­la Christo­pher said yes­ter­day. She al­so ad­mit­ted that the spike in mur­ders since the start of year has in­creased the de­mand for polic­ing.

That was the vow yes­ter­day from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar af­ter she re­ceived firm back­ing from her Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans, par­ty arm mem­bers and mem­ber­ship.

The Fraud Squad of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of more than $300,000 from the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SRC). This was con­firmed by chair­man Di­nesh Sankers­ingh who said an ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fi­cer has been trans­ferred. 

The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC), Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MoE) and the de­nom­i­na­tion­al boards have agreed to con­tin­ue dis­cus­sions re­gard­ing sev­er­al is­sues, in­clud­ing the now con­tentious teacher re­cruit­ment process.

That’s the fate of the mo­tion that for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MPs Dr Fuad Khan and Ra­mona Ram­di­al had pro­posed for de­bate at Sun­day’s UNC Na­tion­al Con­gress.

A Co­corite man, who had on­ly re­turned to the coun­try last week af­ter spend­ing time abroad with rel­a­tives, was killed by gun­men on Wednes­day night as he got ready for bed.

There will be no In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion this year, as its pro­mot­ers have de­cid­ed to can­cel it af­ter Gov­ern­ment re­fused their re­quest for fund­ing to the tune of $10 mil­lion.