A 43-year-old Venezue­lan woman and a 32-year-old Trinida­di­an man have been ar­rest­ed as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the al­leged traf­fick­ing and sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion of a 15-year-old Venezue­lan girl.

Swim­mer Jaden Mills cap­tured Trinidad and To­ba­go's first medal at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Sene­gal, win­ning sil­ver in the men's 50-me­tre freestyle fi­nal.

World lead­ers who have sparred with the “Amer­i­ca first” Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump greet­ed the rout of his Re­pub­li­can Par­ty in the U.S. midterm elec­tions with a mea­sure of re­lief on Wednes­day, al­low­ing them­selves to hope for a less com­bat­ive U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy.

For­mer Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Unit­ed Na­tions and UNC MP Rod­ney Charles is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to seek le­gal ad­vice on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s po­ten­tial ex­po­sure to in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s ac­tions, fol­low­ing the De­moc­rats’ vic­to­ry in the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump re­peat­ed­ly en­cour­aged vot­ers to pre­tend he was on the midterm bal­lot. They did. And it’s hard to imag­ine a worse out­come for the Re­pub­li­can pres­i­dent and his par­ty.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has won his law­suit against for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) chair­man Bliss Seep­er­sad over her de­ci­sion to with­draw a mer­it list when he was seek­ing reap­point­ment in 2021.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op of Port of Spain Ja­son Gor­don has in­struct­ed priests to con­tin­ue of­fer­ing con­se­crat­ed wine dur­ing Holy Com­mu­nion to Catholics of all ages, say­ing the prac­tice is pro­tect­ed by the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a four-year, US$4.85 mil­lion project aimed at re­duc­ing green­house gas emis­sions, pro­tect­ing bio­di­ver­si­ty and pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — De­moc­rats won con­trol of both cham­bers of Con­gress, de­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sive re­buke of Re­pub­li­can gov­er­nance in Wash­ing­ton and ush­er­ing in a new era of con­gres­sion­al re­sis­tance to Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

An­a­lysts and po­lit­i­cal ob­servers are ex­press­ing con­cern over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­ci­sion to ab­stain from vot­ing on a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court.

It is a bit­ter irony that Trinidad and To­ba­go, which helped bring the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) in­to ex­is­tence, should now turn its back on the court to cur­ry favour with Wash­ing­ton, says for­mer UNC MP/min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath.

A stu­dent has been sus­pend­ed for five days af­ter a 13-year-old Ce­dros Sec­ondary stu­dent was beat­en.