Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed con­cerns sur­round­ing the US-sup­plied radar sys­tem at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, say­ing on­ly the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), drug traf­fick­ers and vi­o­lent gangs are “ob­sessed” with the is­sue.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has called for a re­port in­to the mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar con­tract for body cam­eras and sup­port­ing in­fra­struc­ture is­sued un­der for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has de­clined to com­ment on his use of the Pun­ish­er em­blem on his uni­form.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day con­firmed that Car­ni­val 2026 record­ed the low­est num­ber of se­ri­ous crimes in the past six years.

As res­i­dents con­tin­ue to cope with last week’s trag­ic dou­ble mur­der, a peace con­cert aimed at pro­mot­ing heal­ing and uni­ty will be held to­mor­row at the Jade Court play­park in Cou­va.

Se­nior po­lice, in­clud­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, have con­firmed that the TTPS is pre­pared to tack­le any resur­gence in gang vi­o­lence in and around east Port-of-Spain. How­ev­er, res­i­dents in the com­mu­ni­ty are not re­as­sured by this, as they re­main in­doors out of fear of con­tin­ued blood­shed.

Two months af­ter the US-do­nat­ed radar de­tect­ed mil­lions of dol­lars worth of drugs in the Ca­roni Swamp, a pick-up filled with mar­i­jua­na was found yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter a con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant tipped off po­lice.

A month af­ter po­lice shot and killed Joshua Sama­roo af­ter a high-speed chase that start­ed in Mal­oney and end­ed in St Au­gus­tine, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has con­firmed that in­ves­ti­ga­tors in the mat­ter have met with of­fi­cials from the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), in what he de­scribed as an “ini­tial meet­ing.”

Of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion have ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old man in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the San Juan dis­trict.

The Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee (CBCC) and its chair­man, Melis­sa R. Jadoo­nanan, are prepar­ing to take le­gal ac­tion against in­di­vid­u­als and or­gan­i­sa­tions who have al­leged that she re­ceived a kick­back. The ac­cu­sa­tions sur­faced on so­cial me­dia fol­low­ing the re­lease of the 2026 J’Ou­vert re­sults.

One year af­ter Able Sea­man Kieron Si­mon went miss­ing at sea, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard (TTCG) for­mal­ly ho­n­oured his life and ser­vice.

Some­times, when you least ex­pect it—but con­tin­ue to work hard—the unimag­in­able can hap­pen. That’s ex­act­ly what hap­pened for 2026 Pres­i­dent’s Medal awardee Aliya Ser­rette of Bish­op Anstey High School and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East (BATCE).