Busi­ness­man Gary Aboud has claimed that the Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go is liv­ing un­der an “omi­nous cloud of sus­pi­cion” amid what he de­scribed as po­lit­i­cal hate cam­paigns tar­get­ing the com­mu­ni­ty.

Dunamis Glo­ry of Praise and Wor­ship in Va­len­cia has wrapped up its 2026 Va­ca­tion Bible School, wel­com­ing 120 chil­dren for a week of faith-based learn­ing and ac­tiv­i­ties.

Thir­ty‑two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and more than 100 war­rants ex­e­cut­ed dur­ing a ma­jor po­lice op­er­a­tion across the South West­ern Di­vi­sion on Mon­day.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley has called on the Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly end the State of Emer­gency and dis­miss both the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, ac­cus­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tion of abus­ing its au­thor­i­ty and act­ing with­out ev­i­dence.

Po­lice said res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing gun­shots along Palm Road around 7.50 pm. Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed and found the body of Da­le­on La­fon in the yard of a near­by home with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused crit­ics of the Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-crime cam­paign of at­tempt­ing to in­flame racial ten­sions and un­der­mine Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­tec­tive ser­vices, as the ad­min­is­tra­tion faces mount­ing crit­i­cism over its use of in­tel­li­gence, pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders and as­sis­tance from Unit­ed States se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies in a high-pro­file al­leged as­sas­si­na­tion plot in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

A group of men lim­ing at a Diego Mar­tin bar came to the aid of a pa­tron who was at­tacked by two ban­dits on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

The pub­lic has been ad­vised that the Massy Stores branch on French Street, Wood­brook, will open from noon to­day fol­low­ing a re­port­ed break-in at the com­pa­ny’s ware­house and the dis­cov­ery of a body in a va­cant lot near­by.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has ex­pressed grat­i­tude to the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines fol­low­ing the res­cue of five Trinidad and To­ba­go fish­er­men af­ter the sink­ing of the fish­ing ves­sel ST VIN­CENT VII.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked the Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued against busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, say­ing their con­tin­ued de­ten­tion was no longer pro­por­tion­ate while the crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is call­ing for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the Gov­ern­ment’s use of Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the 2026 State of Emer­gency, fol­low­ing the re­vo­ca­tion of the de­ten­tion or­ders against Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty fol­low­ing the re­lease of in­di­vid­u­als who were de­tained for weeks un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders.