Gov­ern­ment has launched a ma­jor re­cruit­ment dri­ve aimed at ad­dress­ing long­stand­ing staffing short­ages with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, with 246 prison of­fi­cer re­cruits of­fi­cial­ly be­gin­ning train­ing on Tues­day.

Key pro­vi­sions of the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery and Man­age­ment and Un­ex­plained Wealth Act, 2019 came in­to force on Ju­ly 28, bring­ing in­to op­er­a­tion the le­gal frame­work for civ­il as­set re­cov­ery, prop­er­ty re­stric­tion or­ders and un­ex­plained wealth pro­ceed­ings af­ter Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo is­sued a procla­ma­tion ac­ti­vat­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of the leg­is­la­tion.

The jet ski op­er­a­tor al­leged to have caused the death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at Pi­geon Point Beach on April 8 has been de­nied bail.

One in every four chil­dren in Trinidad and To­ba­go is over­weight or obese, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe warned on Sun­day as he called for greater em­pha­sis on phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty and health­i­er eat­ing to com­bat the coun­try's grow­ing child­hood obe­si­ty cri­sis.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) have signed a five-year Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing cli­mate ac­tion that pri­ori­tis­es the rights and well-be­ing of chil­dren across the Caribbean.

Sev­en de­tainees who es­caped from the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre have plead­ed guilty to the of­fence of es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody and have been sen­tenced to terms of hard labour.

A 22-year-old woman has been ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a Glock pis­tol and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es that al­so re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of an­oth­er firearm and cannabis fol­low­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion with an armed sus­pect.

Po­lice de­stroyed an es­ti­mat­ed TT$200,000 worth of cannabis plants and dis­man­tled a cannabis grow­house dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Rio Claro for­est on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Tourism stake­hold­ers in To­ba­go are be­ing urged to play a greater role in iden­ti­fy­ing and pre­vent­ing hu­man traf­fick­ing as the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty marked World Day Against Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons 2026 with a se­ries of aware­ness ini­tia­tives on the is­land.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries has com­plet­ed the Trinidad com­po­nent of a na­tion­al sim­u­la­tion ex­er­cise de­signed to strength­en the coun­try’s abil­i­ty to re­spond to out­breaks of High­ly Path­o­gen­ic Avian In­fluen­za (HPAI), com­mon­ly known as bird flu.

Calami­ty was avert­ed at the Scar­bor­ough port on Mon­day night af­ter a run­away truck, loaded with con­crete blocks, al­most crashed in­to a car with a woman seat­ed in­side. The dra­ma un­fold­ed around 10.30 pm as ramp is­sues aboard the MV Gold­en Car­ri­er car­go ves­sel caused dam­aged to at least three ve­hi­cles as they at­tempt­ed to dis­em­bark.

Some 36 years af­ter the Ju­ly 27, 1990 coup at­tempt, in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing is “not one step bet­ter” and Trinidad and To­ba­go is at a “de­mo­c­ra­t­ic cross­roads” un­der the cur­rent UNC Gov­ern­ment.