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.

ARI­ZONA — Even as the Caribbean con­tin­ues to grap­ple with il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, Unit­ed States se­nior ad­vis­er and for­mer jour­nal­ist CJ Kara­mar­gin has con­firmed the US is strength­en­ing and ex­pand­ing sec­tions of its bor­der wall to curb il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, while al­so main­tain­ing sys­tems to care for mi­grants and ad­dress hu­man­i­tar­i­an needs.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Na­tion­al Women’s League has come out strong­ly in de­fence of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, in­sist­ing she will de­cide the fu­ture of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates “in due course” while ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy and po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion.

The nude body of an uniden­ti­fied man of mixed de­scent was dis­cov­ered by work­ers at Co­cal Es­tate, Man­zanil­la, on Mon­day.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) has fi­nalised a ma­jor Gas Sales Con­tract (GSC) with Methanol Hold­ings (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed (MHTL), the largest methanol pro­duc­er on the Point Lisas Es­tate. Signed on Tues­day at NGC’s Point Lisas head­quar­ters, the agree­ment marks the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of 100 per­cent of NGC’s gas con­tract re­newals with down­stream cus­tomers and Pro­man Group com­pa­nies.