The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) and the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) have con­demned what they de­scribed as ex­ces­sive po­lice ac­tion dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad on June 19.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, SC, MP, will be out of the ju­ris­dic­tion un­til Wednes­day, June 24, 2026, to at­tend the fu­ner­al of a fam­i­ly mem­ber over­seas.

Nes­tled in Trinidad's North­ern Range, the moun­tain vil­lage of Bras­so Seco, Paria, is prepar­ing to wel­come hun­dreds of vis­i­tors for its an­nu­al Vil­lage Bazaar on Ju­ly 4, themed Christ­mas in Ju­ly.

U.S. and Iran­ian ne­go­tia­tors were in Switzer­land on Sun­day for talks on their in­ter­im agree­ment to end the Iran war. Pak­istani and Qatari me­di­a­tors al­so were there for the tech­ni­cal-lev­el dis­cus­sions on re­solv­ing the con­flict that the U.S. and Is­rael be­gan in late Feb­ru­ary.

A hail of gun­fire shat­tered the qui­et of Pleas­antville on Sat­ur­day evening, as a masked gun­man chased down and killed a 37-year-old labour­er be­fore flee­ing in a wait­ing get­away car.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has sought to jus­ti­fy its po­lar­is­ing de­ci­sion to charge so­cial ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er Camille Cares­quero af­ter they par­tic­i­pat­ed in Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad on Fri­day.

Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary, Michael An­nisette, has con­demned the ar­rest of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip dur­ing Fri­day’s Labour Day march in Fyz­abad, de­scrib­ing the po­lice ac­tion as “re­gret­table,” “un­for­tu­nate,” and an af­front to de­mo­c­ra­t­ic free­doms.

Van­dals plunged hun­dreds of res­i­dents in Princes Town and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties in­to dark­ness on Fri­day night af­ter dam­ag­ing crit­i­cal Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) in­fra­struc­ture in the Fair­field Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment.

Be­tween 2017 and 2026, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has ac­cu­mu­lat­ed over $3.7 bil­lion in over­time for its 7,884 of­fi­cers.

As he moves seam­less­ly in­to his sec­ond year as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP), Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is firm­ly fo­cused on mak­ing T&T a safer place for all.

Al­though the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has jus­ti­fied the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) by point­ing to re­duc­tions in mur­ders and vi­o­lent crimes, at least one de­tainee who was held dur­ing the last SoE has ac­cused them of de­stroy­ing his life.

A 25-year-old man was mur­dered near his Mal­oney Gar­dens home short­ly af­ter vis­it­ing the com­mu­ni­ty’s po­lice sta­tion on Fri­day evening.