De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is dou­bling down on not al­low­ing Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Vy­bz Kar­tel (Adid­ja Palmer) di­rect ac­cess to the na­tion’s im­pres­sion­able youths. How­ev­er, he has agreed to grant him two me­dia in­ter­views.

Fear and frus­tra­tion are mount­ing in East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, where res­i­dents are voic­ing deep con­cern over po­ten­tial land­slides and un­sta­ble slopes threat­en­ing their homes.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal wants a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the main­te­nance and use of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) South Cam­pus in Debe, which he says cost tax­pay­ers over $600 mil­lion and re­mains large­ly un­oc­cu­pied and in a state of dis­re­pair.

The Prime Min­is­ter is re­ceiv­ing praise for amal­ga­mat­ing the func­tions and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of the Min­istries of Plan­ning and Fi­nance by plac­ing each sub­stan­tive min­is­ter to as­sist the oth­er by way of ad­di­tion­al port­fo­lios.

A Moru­ga cou­ple is thank­ful to be alive af­ter the roof of their home col­lapsed dur­ing tor­ren­tial show­ers on Sun­day.

A to­tal of 93 weath­er-re­lat­ed in­ci­dents were re­port­ed across Trinidad and To­ba­go be­tween Sun­day and Mon­day, fol­low­ing heavy rain­fall that marked the of­fi­cial start of the 2025 rainy sea­son, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment.

The spot­light will be on the Red House in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day dur­ing the launch of the 13th Par­lia­ment.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) labour re­la­tions of­fi­cer Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus has tak­en a “dig” at for­mer prime min­is­ter and par­ty leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley, while an­nounc­ing that she will not be con­test­ing the post in the par­ty’s up­com­ing ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion.

The Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion is hope­ful that new­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der will grant them a meet­ing, as it claims the de­te­ri­o­ra­tion of Fire Ser­vice as­sets played a di­rect role in Sun­day’s fire, which de­stroyed a house in Princes Town.

A promi­nent busi­ness­man from San­gre Grande has scored a vic­to­ry in a pro­tract­ed le­gal bat­tle over his ac­qui­si­tion of a prop­er­ty. 

The mur­der of 42-year-old Michael Dun­can out­side his Bel­mont home on Mon­day night is be­lieved to be the lat­est in­ci­dent in an on­go­ing gang war be­tween ri­val gangs in the com­mu­ni­ty, res­i­dents say.

A 28-year-old man was fined $65,000 for two firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences af­ter am­mo and parts for a gun were found in a toy bas­ket and freez­er.