The mur­der toll went up again yes­ter­day af­ter two mid-af­ter­noon shoot­ings less than an hour apart in San Juan and Trou Macaque, Laven­tille.

Re­ports of squat­ting in Cen­tral Trinidad by some Venezue­lans and the oc­cu­pan­cy of aban­doned South hous­es are among the mixed bag of is­sues re­sult­ing from the in­flux of mi­grants to T&T in re­cent months.

A woman es­tate po­lice of­fi­cer at the T&T Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP), who was al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly ha­rassed on the job by a se­nior just un­der a year ago, has sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to man­age­ment de­mand­ing jus­tice and her case dealt with im­me­di­ate­ly.

Pa­tron and founder of the O2N Foun­da­tion Nicole Dy­er-Grif­fith says this year’s O2N Style 2 Style Me Caribbean Trade Ex­hi­bi­tion is the biggest and most suc­cess­ful event to date.

Robbed at gun­point as he walked along the main road in Cunu­pia around 5 pm on Fri­day, the fa­ther of a Form Two stu­dent at­tend­ing St George’s Col­lege, Barataria, said it may be time for him to con­sid­er ap­ply­ing for a per­son­al firearm in or­der to en­sure his own safe­ty.

A Venezue­lan ac­tivist has claimed that a 15 year-old boy who was be­ing held at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­ter in this coun­try was de­port­ed to Venezuela with­out his le­gal guardians, who are still in this coun­try. Venezue­lan ac­tivist Yese­nia Gon­za­lez said that the 15 year-old came to this coun­try il­le­gal­ly in March along with his adop­tive moth­er and her chil­dren. He was held by of­fi­cers and re­ports sug­gest all charges against him were dropped by a Fyz­abad Mag­is­trate be­cause of his age. But the ac­tivist said the teen was sep­a­rat­ed from his le­gal guardian by au­thor­i­ties here and who re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that he was sent back to Venezuela alone.

Two pris­on­ers who es­caped from the Gold­en Grove prison 11 days ago have been held while try­ing to make their way to Venezuela.

A week­end sea bath at one of To­ba­go East's pop­u­lar beach­es turned in­to tragedy af­ter a man drowned on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Four years ago, Dr Kei­th Row­ley, then op­po­si­tion leader, pre­dict­ed the down­fall of the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship (PP) gov­ern­ment due to its in­abil­i­ty to get crime un­der con­trol. Row­ley al­so con­ced­ed then that spi­ralling crime had led to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) los­ing the 2010 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cers swooped down on ven­dors sell­ing their goods along the side­walk in San­gre Grande yes­ter­day. Ven­dors were asked by the po­lice to re­move their goods or have it con­fis­cat­ed.

Hen­ry, the man­ag­er at Jade Mon­key Casi­no and Bar lo­cat­ed at Crown Point, had just ar­rived at his Blue Heron Dri­ve, Sou Sou Lands home from work when he saw a ve­hi­cle in his dri­ve­way. He told po­lice a masked gun­man, tall and slim built with broad shoul­ders was stand­ing on the east­ern side of his dri­ve­way, point­ing a gun in his di­rec­tion.

It was so nice that fel­low artistes, friends, and sup­port­ers of David "Okee Do­kee" Hug­gins who came to­geth­er for a fundrais­ing con­cert called Stand for Love last year to as­sist him in ac­quir­ing a pros­thet­ic leg had to do it twice.

Cualquier Vene­zolano que lle­ga dos se­m­anas antes del pro­ce­so de reg­is­tración puede pos­tu­larse a vivir y tra­ba­jar aquí has­ta que un año. El Min­is­te­rio de la Se­guri­dad Na­cional Stu­art Young lo con­fir­mó cuan­do él dio al­gunos de­talles en cuan­to al de­sar­rol­lo del pro­ce­so de reg­is­tración en­tre 31 de Mayo y 15 de Ju­nio.

Cen­tral Broad­cast­ing Ser­vices and Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Sat­narayan Ma­haraj have been giv­en the green light to sue the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) over its fail­ure to dis­close the war­rant used to search Ra­dio and TV Jaa­gri­ti, in April.

UNC MP Fazal Karim, launched a mo­tion in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day con­demn­ing Gov­ern­ment’s fail­ure on the Ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor. He said the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion had “cut down, cut in­to and cut out” var­i­ous fa­cil­i­ties for stu­dents.

Work­ers at Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) used to be en­ticed to at­tend work on­ly be­cause of mon­ey, but now they go to work be­cause of pride.

Even as aid is be­ing sought for close to 100 Venezue­lan mi­grants who ar­rest­ed in Pa­lo Seco on Thurs­day, 46 oth­ers ap­peared in the court on Fri­day for il­le­gal­ly en­ter­ing the coun­try.