Amidst the grief of los­ing one of their youngest mem­bers, an Arou­ca fam­i­ly is pray­ing for jus­tice af­ter a tod­dler was burnt to death dur­ing an ar­son at­tack at their home.

Four weeks af­ter the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared, 97 peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with gang ac­tiv­i­ties.

He was the fifth man to be killed by po­lice with­in two days. Po­lice al­so re­cov­ered an AR-15 ri­fle.

With the coun­try ap­proach­ing the one-month mark of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), there are con­trast­ing views from crim­i­nol­o­gists about its ef­fec­tive­ness in curb­ing crime, so far.

Po­lice said that of­fi­cers of the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) were dri­ving on Bound­ary Road, around 1 pm when they no­ticed a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da speed­ing out of a near­by side street.

With six po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings in the past sev­en days, the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) says they are yet to re­ceive any body cam­era footage for any of them.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds has is­sued a third de­ten­tion or­der un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2024, amidst ris­ing threats to pub­lic safe­ty and es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence against prison of­fi­cers.

Af­ter re­ceiv­ing threats from a for­mer girl­friend, a busi­ness­man’s home and three cars were dam­aged in a fire in La Brea on Thurs­day.

A rou­tine morn­ing trip in­to the “bush” turned fa­tal for 73-year-old gar­den­er Steven­son Lumy, af­ter he was shot in his leg by a trap gun in Moru­ga yes­ter­day.

In­cum­bent Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Adri­an Leonce is ready to pass the ba­ton on to Chris­t­ian Birch­wood, the PNM’s pick for Laven­tille East/Mor­vant ahead of the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Staff mem­bers and of­fi­cials at the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion are still mourn­ing the death of Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, but there is un­cer­tain­ty if her role—as Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion—will be re­lin­quished when a new gov­ern­ment is in­stalled. Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly ad­mit­ted that the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry is a huge re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for one min­is­ter to tend to, but could not say whether an­oth­er min­is­ter will be ap­point­ed if the PNM wins the up­com­ing elec­tion.

Back­bencher and Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly says he will still serve the peo­ple of T&T, should he not be se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent the con­stituen­cy.