The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 17-year-old Sha­nia Sa­roop of San Juan.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says it is pro­vi­did­ng new op­por­tu­ni­ties for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) to ac­cess lenaca­pavir as part of the pre­ven­ta­tive med­i­cine to curb the spread of HIV through­out the re­gion.

Mas­quer­aders seek­ing to par­tic­i­pate in next month’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val are ques­tion­ing how they will get to the is­land fol­low­ing the re­lease of the fer­ry sched­ule yes­ter­day.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go is re­ject­ing claims that pas­sen­ger traf­fic at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has fall­en sig­nif­i­cant­ly, point­ing to strong traf­fic dur­ing the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion pe­ri­od.

Four stu­dents of North­east­ern Col­lege have pub­licly apol­o­gised for fight­ing on the very first day of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year last week.

For­mer de­tainees and their rel­a­tives say an apol­o­gy from the State would not be enough for what they en­dured while in de­ten­tion, with one for­mer de­tainee de­scrib­ing con­di­tions as fit on­ly for an­i­mals.

Peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) could have grounds to seek ad­di­tion­al le­gal re­course if they were held in in­hu­mane con­di­tions, says at­tor­ney Nyree Al­fon­so.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union yes­ter­day said the State of Emer­gency’s no-protest zones have tied its hands, pre­vent­ing it from demon­strat­ing in front of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $700,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a man from Co­corite, who was re­mand­ed for 18 months af­ter be­ing false­ly ac­cused of be­ing in pos­ses­sion of a bul­let proof vest to as­sist a gang. 

The US Em­bassy had to wait three months, be­tween May and Au­gust 2025, to get a san­i­tary de­ter­mi­na­tion to erect tem­po­rary liv­ing quar­ters for the work­force con­struct­ing its new fa­cil­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh yes­ter­day.

De­bate will be held in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day (Wednes­day) on the Gov­ern­ment's bill to re­move the re­quire­ment for State agen­cies to pub­lish an­nu­al pub­lic state­ments in a dai­ly news­pa­per and re­place it with a re­quire­ment for those state­ments to be pub­lished ei­ther in a news­pa­per or on a pub­licly ac­ces­si­ble web­site.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices have seized ap­prox­i­mate­ly $1 bil­lion worth of il­le­gal drugs since the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) came in­to of­fice last year.