A 30-year-old man from Mor­vant, ac­cused of mur­der­ing a woman and wound­ing her boyfriend in 2023, has been freed af­ter her boyfriend ad­mit­ted that he had wrong­ly im­pli­cat­ed him.

Af­ter falling vic­tim to crim­i­nals six times in just five years, a frus­trat­ed Bar­rack­pore farmer is call­ing on au­thor­i­ties to re­store reg­u­lar po­lice pa­trols in the farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty and to fast-track the ap­proval process for Firearm User’s Li­cences (FULs).

A full-scale in­ter­nal au­dit has been or­dered in­to the op­er­a­tions and fi­nances of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), af­ter new­ly ap­point­ed Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin raised alarm over a $178 mil­lion debt still owed to ser­vice providers from Car­ni­val 2025.

Guyana Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali has called for the tripling of glob­al fi­nances to pro­tect na­ture and stave off the ef­fects cli­mate change is hav­ing on bio­di­ver­si­ty. He made the call as he ad­dressed the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Glob­al Bio­di­ver­si­ty Al­liance Sum­mit in George­town yes­ter­day.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) is deny­ing al­le­ga­tions made by vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Er­rol “Bal­ly” Bal­lan­tyne that mem­bers of its gen­er­al coun­cil paid them­selves $100,000 each in ex­change for not com­pet­ing in this year’s Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

Mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er and pas­tor Luke Quam­i­na be­lieves the up­com­ing CeCe Winans More Than This: Trinidad con­cert is ex­act­ly what the coun­try needs at this time.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in lo­cat­ing 81-year-old Lin­coln Charles, who has been miss­ing since Ju­ly 9.

A 45-year-old man has been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a shoot­ing at his Cou­va home that ini­tial­ly ap­peared to be a rob­bery but was lat­er re­vealed to be a do­mes­tic dis­pute.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Copy­right Col­lec­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TTC­CO) is wel­com­ing a re­cent court rul­ing in favour of so­ca artiste Sean Caruth, call­ing it a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward in pro­tect­ing per­form­ers’ rights and rais­ing aware­ness about in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says of­fi­cers seen in a vi­ral video trans­port­ing a young woman to grad­u­a­tion a marked ve­hi­cle act­ed law­ful­ly and with au­tho­ri­sa­tion.

Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin has or­dered the new Board of Com­mis­sion­ers at the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) to take im­me­di­ate ac­tion to fix the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s fi­nan­cial and op­er­a­tional cri­sis, warn­ing there will be no grace pe­ri­od un­der her lead­er­ship.

A 28-year-old prison es­capee has been re­cap­tured by po­lice fol­low­ing a man­hunt that end­ed along Guaico Tamana Road on Wednes­day.