All 29 peo­ple be­lieved to have been aboard the pirogue that cap­sized off Los Iros on Wednes­day have been ac­count­ed for, as res­cuers iden­ti­fied the two vic­tims and pro­vid­ed new de­tails on how the tragedy un­fold­ed.

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis says tax­pay­ers will ul­ti­mate­ly bear the cost of the State’s le­gal de­feat in Thurs­day's mat­ter in­volv­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed, ar­gu­ing that the case goes be­yond the in­di­vid­u­als in­volved and rais­es wider con­cerns about cit­i­zens’ rights and free­doms un­der democ­ra­cy.

Star Sab­ga will have to spend an­oth­er week­end in prison be­fore a judge de­ter­mines whether she should be grant­ed in­ter­im re­lease.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est set of tar­iffs drew ob­jec­tions Fri­day from Amer­i­ca’s trad­ing part­ners in­clud­ing Chi­na and Japan, with Aus­tralia’s trade min­is­ter slam­ming them as “com­plete­ly un­jus­ti­fied.”

Mor­vant res­i­dent Frankie “Fishie” Bartholomew, who was shot by un­known as­sailants on Thurs­day night, re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

A 33-year-old taxi dri­ver was shot dead while cross­ing the road near his New Set­tle­ment home to a mi­ni mart in Ch­agua­nas on Thurs­day evening, in what po­lice be­lieve was a tar­get­ed killing.

The ve­hi­cle of a To­ba­go re­porter was tar­get­ed in an ap­par­ent ar­son at­tack ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) is seek­ing an ur­gent meet­ing with Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo fol­low­ing what it de­scribes as an overnight de­ci­sion by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion to im­pose tax­es on mild hy­brid ve­hi­cles pre­vi­ous­ly be­lieved to be tax ex­empt.

The M.V. Gold­en Car­ri­er will soon join Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter is­land car­go seabridge, re­plac­ing the M.V. Blue Wave Har­mo­ny while the lat­ter un­der­goes sched­uled main­te­nance and up­grades, ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NID­CO).

The Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion on Fri­day said it found Tik­Tok had not ad­e­quate­ly pro­tect­ed chil­dren’s pri­va­cy rights on its plat­form by al­low­ing adults to view the ac­counts of mi­nors.

Close to one cal­en­dar month af­ter they were ar­rest­ed at their Bayshore, West­moor­ings home, busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve yes­ter­day walked out of the Gold­en Grove Prison, Arou­ca, where they were kept un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) while be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed in an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate high-rank­ing Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed are re­lieved to be re­unit­ed with loved ones af­ter Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter re­voked their Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDO) yes­ter­day, im­me­di­ate­ly free­ing the cou­ple.