Five aca­d­e­mics from The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus have been pro­mot­ed to the rank of Pro­fes­sor, as part of a wider round of pro­mo­tions across the re­gion­al in­sti­tu­tion.

Com­muters trav­el­ling out of San­gre Grande this morn­ing who de­pend­ed on maxi taxis for trans­porta­tion were forced to use PTSC bus­es, sev­en-seater taxis and com­mer­cial taxis as maxi taxi op­er­a­tors be­gan a three-day protest to­day.

As cli­mate change in­ten­si­fies storms, flood­ing, droughts and coastal ero­sion across the Caribbean, re­gion­al lead­ers are call­ing for a fun­da­men­tal shift in how coun­tries pre­pare for dis­as­ters, from re­act­ing to crises to build­ing re­silience be­fore they oc­cur.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has ex­tend­ed au­tho­ri­sa­tion for pri­vate mo­torists to use the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) un­til 11.59 pm to­mor­row, Tues­day, June 2.

A 17-year-old boy and his el­der­ly grand­fa­ther were tied up and beat­en by masked ban­dits dur­ing a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion at their Pe­nal home ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s lead cli­mate ne­go­tia­tor for 30 years, Kis­han Ku­mars­ingh, has re­signed as Head of Mul­ti­lat­er­al En­vi­ron­men­tal Agree­ments at the Min­istry of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, cit­ing chal­lenges linked to changes in pol­i­cy di­rec­tion since May 2025.

NO­GALES, Ari­zona — U.S. bor­der agents pa­trolling Ari­zona’s vast and un­for­giv­ing fron­tier are con­fronting crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions with bil­lion-dol­lar re­sources while op­er­at­ing un­der com­par­a­tive­ly lim­it­ed bud­gets, a dis­par­i­ty of­fi­cials say has be­come one of the biggest chal­lenges in se­cur­ing the bor­der.

A po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing dur­ing a re­port­ed home in­va­sion in Cunu­pia ear­ly this morn­ing has left one sus­pect dead and prompt­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Po­lice have con­firmed a ma­jor break­through in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias Plaza, with one of the main sus­pects con­fess­ing this morn­ing.

In a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing, law en­force­ment of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed 21 in­di­vid­u­als and seized cash and al­co­hol dur­ing a raid in the D’Abadie dis­trict.

ARI­ZONA — As the Unit­ed States pre­pares for a surge in glob­al trav­el ahead of the up­com­ing FI­FA World Cup, of­fi­cials say stronger col­lab­o­ra­tion across agen­cies and coun­tries is crit­i­cal to com­bat­ing pass­port and visa fraud, which of­ten links to transna­tion­al crim­i­nal net­works.

Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen is de­fend­ing the state com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to end its 21-year re­la­tion­ship with in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency Moody’s, say­ing the move does not rep­re­sent a re­treat from trans­paren­cy or in­de­pen­dent scruti­ny.