Steve Phipps News Today

TRINIDAD’S prisons have evolved into “call centres” for criminal activity, with gang leaders and other “shot callers” regularly ordering murder and extortion from within their cells while still maintaining control

HS2 Ltd has approved the use of new concrete testing technology by main works contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci.

The death of Emmanuel Joseph—a 22-year-old man charged with attempted murder of a prison officer—has been classified as unnatural.

AN investigation has commenced into the death on Friday night of the 22-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of a senior prison officer and a 12-year-old girl.Commissioner of Prisons

Another cache of weapons has been found in Santa Cruz.

NORTH Eastern Division police are investigating a report in which a police officer’s car was shot at on Thursday night.But investigators said yesterday that after they received new information, they

POLICE are trying to determine where the cache of firearms and ammunition seized in a forested area in Santa Cruz on Wednesday originated.Many of the weapons, including AR15s, M16s and

Law enforcement is under siege.

There are authorised phone lines for inmates in prisons throughout the country, and with jammers in use, the lives of prison officers may be under threat.

Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher intends to use all available resources to apprehend those responsible for the attack on the driver of the Deputy Prisons Commissioner.