Two su­per­mar­ket own­ers have been charged with of­fences aris­ing out of in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to re­ports of il­lic­it trade op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Mul­ti-Agency Task Force (MATF).

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has called on pub­lic of­fice hold­ers and mem­bers of the pub­lic to re­frain from mak­ing pub­lic state­ments on cas­es cur­rent­ly re­ceiv­ing ju­di­cial at­ten­tion. 

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 8 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed deaths, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 1613. There are cur­rent­ly 289 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The Min­istry has al­so record­ed 138 new cas­es in the last 24 hours. This brings the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 4266.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says that there was no ex­plo­sion at Cen­tral Bank to­day. In­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that smoke from a worn gear wheel belt on a com­pres­sor trig­gered the fire alarm. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has joined with many around the world to mourn the pass­ing of for­mer US Sec­re­tary of State Col­in Pow­ell, who died on Mon­day 18 Oc­to­ber 2021.

Fif­teen-year-old Je­re­mi­ah Mar­tin who was last seen on Oc­to­ber 16th has been found. He was found at the home of a rel­a­tive on Oc­to­ber 17th. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

Two peo­ple are now re­ceiv­ing med­ical at­ten­tion fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to­day, which saw a train­ing air­craft made an emer­gency land­ing.

30-year-old Ravi Ra­moutar plead­ed guilty to the charge of as­sault oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm, and was or­dered to stay away from the vic­tim. He ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate (Ag) Ava Van­den­burg-Bai­ley, at the Ma­yaro Mag­is­trates’ Court and was grant­ed bail in the sum of $12,000. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

Two su­per­mar­ket own­ers, Stephany Wong Low and Yunx­u­an Huang have been charged with sell­ing il­le­gal cig­a­rettes and con­duct­ing il­le­gal gam­bling at their busi­ness­es. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, dur­ing ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by the Mul­ti-Agency Task Force of­fi­cers seized items in­clud­ing quan­ti­ties of il­lic­it cig­a­rettes, prepack­aged food items, il­lic­it phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and cash reg­is­ters pro­grammed and used for il­le­gal play-whe gam­bling. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

Two peo­ple are now re­ceiv­ing med­ical at­ten­tion fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to­day, which saw a train­ing air­craft made an emer­gency land­ing.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives were on the scene of a mur­der at George Street, Ste Madeleine, to­day, fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of a bul­let-rid­dled body in a track at that lo­ca­tion.

Three more peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed over the past 24 hours for breach­ing the cur­few stip­u­lat­ed un­der the cur­rent Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID Reg­u­la­tions en­force­ment up­date from the Po­lice Ser­vice.