The Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates said Tues­day it will leave OPEC ef­fec­tive May 1, strip­ping the oil car­tel of one of its largest pro­duc­ers and fur­ther weak­en­ing its lever­age over glob­al oil sup­plies and prices.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a break-in in­volv­ing a sit­ting sen­a­tor’s ve­hi­cle at a su­per­mar­ket carpark in Cas­cade on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Don­ald and Mela­nia Trump both called for ABC to fire Jim­my Kim­mel on Mon­day af­ter a joke last week in which the late-night com­ic de­scribed the first la­dy as hav­ing “the glow of an ex­pec­tant wid­ow.”

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has giv­en Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an 80 per cent rat­ing for her first year in of­fice, de­scrib­ing her lead­er­ship of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) as “out­stand­ing” and re­silient.

One year ago to­day, on April 28, 2025, the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go went to the polls and de­liv­ered a man­date that would do more than just change a do­mes­tic agen­da.

With rel­a­tives, col­leagues and friends pay­ing trib­ute at her fu­ner­al ser­vice yes­ter­day, a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer said slain of­fi­cer Anus­ka Ever­s­ley served with courage and ho­n­our, con­demn­ing her mur­der as “an evil act.”

Hours be­fore the fu­ner­al of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley, one of her col­leagues and two oth­er men ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly in court charged with four of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der. It was al­so fi­nal­ly re­vealed that 123 guns were stolen from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on the night Ever­s­ley was mur­dered.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar says his im­me­di­ate fo­cus as new head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS) will be sta­bil­i­sa­tion, re­build­ing morale and restor­ing pub­lic trust as the ser­vice grap­ples with se­ri­ous in­ter­nal chal­lenges.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed it­self against 11 com­plaints brought against it by NH In­ter­na­tion­al be­fore the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion, clear­ing the way for a mul­ti-bil­lion-dol­lar hous­ing pro­gramme to pro­ceed.

New­ly elect­ed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis said her first mis­sion at the helm will be a mem­ber­ship dri­ve.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says that sev­er­al at­tacks in­volv­ing knives, in­clud­ing a mur­der in San Juan, over the week­end have demon­strat­ed a slight shift in the pat­terns of crim­i­nals.

The ad­di­tion of 51 elec­tric po­lice pa­trol cars is ex­pect­ed to en­hance the cov­er­age and crime-fight­ing ca­pac­i­ties of po­lice of­fi­cers as part of a new pa­trol ini­tia­tive; how­ev­er, of­fi­cers as­signed to use the ve­hi­cles are re­mind­ed to use the new re­sources re­spon­si­bly.