As­sault charges against the CEO of A&V Oil and Gas Ltd CEO Hanif Naz­im Baksh and his son-in-law Cpl Bil­ly Ram­sun­dar were thrown out by a Siparia Mag­is­trate Court on Monday af­ter the State failed to present ev­i­dence against them some two years af­ter they were charged.

The fin­ger­print­ing sec­tion of the Port-of-Spain Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion was tem­porar­i­ly re­lo­cat­ed on Mon­day as of­fi­cers com­plained of un­bear­able heat due to non-func­tion­ing air-con­di­tion unit.

Three years af­ter Freeport gang leader Hay­den “Lu­do” Nero was mur­dered, his younger broth­er Nicholas “Pan” Nero suf­fered a sim­i­lar fate.

The de­com­pos­ing body of a miss­ing WASA se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was found off Mafek­ing Branch Road, in Ma­yaro end­ing hope that the woman was still alive.

The dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Laven­tille on Sun­day night that claimed the life of three friends, in­clud­ing a 15-year-old boy, has be­ing de­scribed as a “mes­sage” to oth­er peo­ple in an on­go­ing gang dis­pute in the area.

It has been more than a decade since the $7.4 bil­lion Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion project start­ed and even though mil­lions have been paid out for land ac­qui­si­tion, many dis­placed res­i­dents are still rent­ing.

That’s how Ari­ma May­or Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian de­scribed Mon­day’s mur­der of play­wright and award-win­ning pro­duc­er, di­rec­tor and ac­tor Ray­mond Choo Kong.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Kelvin Charles has ex­pressed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and the­atre arts fra­ter­ni­ty, on the un­time­ly pass­ing of the­atre arts pi­o­neer and icon Ray­mond Choo Kong.

Ray­mond Choo Kong’s mur­der, the fourth trag­ic death with­in the the­atre fra­ter­ni­ty in a space of a year plunged the com­mu­ni­ty in­to fur­ther shock on Mon­day.

As of Mon­day af­ter­noon, 229 of the 280 record­ed mur­ders for the year or 81 per cent, were felled by gun fire, ac­cord­ing to mur­der sta­tis­tics tab­u­lat­ed by the Pow­er­ful Ladies of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion held 39 Venezue­lan na­tion­als and one Ja­maican na­tion­al dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in Ch­agua­nas overnight in­to this morn­ing.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has an­nounced mea­sures to be tak­en to peg back the spike in homi­cides in the last 36 hours, which in­cludes the call­ing out of all of­fi­cers who are off-du­ty.