Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) new so­cial me­dia sur­veil­lance pro­gramme, those who hide be­hind ‘fake’ ac­counts to com­mit crimes will be brought to jus­tice.

A hostage dra­ma in­volv­ing Danah Al­leyne, the sis­ter of Crime Watch host Ian Al­leyne, end­ed in the death of her boyfriend Keone Paryag last night af­ter po­lice in­ter­vened and shot him.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has told a PNM meet­ing that two per­sons were hired to as­sas­si­nate him in 2015 on the fringes of the gen­er­al elec­tion.

Ear­ly morn­ing jog­gers around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah in Port- of-Spain dis­cov­ered the life­less body of a man ly­ing on the grass.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said he has “no fear...I will have my day in Court with Roodal Mooni­lal and all those who slan­der me.”

The frac­tures around the Pi­paro vol­cano are con­tin­u­ing to widen while in­creased gaseous emis­sions are be­ing record­ed by geo­sci­en­tists who are mon­i­tor­ing the vol­cano on a week­ly ba­sis.

The Trans­formed Life Min­istry Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre has been de­clared a fire haz­ard that posed a “se­ri­ous threat” to the lives of all those who resided, worked and vis­it­ed the Arou­ca fa­cil­i­ty.

Ca­roni Cen­tral MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie made a pas­sion­ate plea for Gov­ern­ment to pay the coun­try’s age­ing cane farm­ers who he claimed are owed mil­lions of dol­lars be­fore they die one-by-one.

Ca­lyp­so icon Dr Hol­lis Liv­er­pool bet­ter, known as Chalk­dust, says he was dis­missed as a pri­ma­ry school teacher from Nel­son Street Boys’ Gov­ern­ment school for teach­ing ca­lyp­so in school.

An em­ploy­ee of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC), ac­cused of coun­selling al­leged gang leader An­cil “Chemist” Vil­lafana, has been again de­nied bail. 

A quan­ti­ty of co­caine val­ued at ap­prox­i­mate­ly TT$4.1mil­ion was dis­cov­ered by of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion and De­fence Force per­son­nel dur­ing a Joint Army-Po­lice Pa­trol ex­er­cise in the Care­nage dis­trict Wednes­day night.

Three men were ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na seized by of­fi­cers of the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion’s Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol Unit.