The Barakah Foun­da­tion in Ch­agua­nas was placed un­der lock­down yes­ter­day amid an on­go­ing dis­pute over its lead­er­ship and con­trol of its premis­es.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is fac­ing the threat of High Court ac­tion weeks be­fore its No­vem­ber 29 gen­er­al elec­tions, as nine af­fil­i­at­ed ja­maats chal­lenge what they de­scribe as an at­tempt to dis­en­fran­chise mem­bers. The dis­pute has al­so raised ques­tions about the Elec­tions Com­mit­tee af­ter three of its six orig­i­nal mem­bers re­signed.

Presto is ex­pand­ing its school hy­dro­pon­ics pro­gramme, tak­ing its agri­cul­tur­al and en­tre­pre­neur­ship ini­tia­tive to Mara­bel­la Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, as the com­pa­ny seeks to equip pupils with prac­ti­cal farm­ing and busi­ness skills.

Four mo­torists have been fined a com­bined $70,000 af­ter plead­ing guilty to dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence (DUI) charges be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Ali­cia Chankar at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court on Tues­day.

To­ba­go Car­ni­val may be over and vis­i­tors con­tin­ue to make their way to the port to catch the boat back to Trinidad.

Per­son­nel of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment (TTR) have been de­ployed to An­tigua and Bar­bu­da to sup­port se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions for the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) 2026.

Trinidad and To­ba­go busi­ness ex­ec­u­tive Danielle Du­mas has been ap­point­ed Di­rec­tor of Part­ner­ships and Mar­ket De­vel­op­ment at glob­al pay­ments com­pa­ny Visa.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) wants to dis­cuss the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of TSTT, the op­er­a­tions of AM­PLIA and the fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Trinidad and To­ba­go ab­stained on a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court’s an­nu­al re­port on Mon­day.

Britain’s King Charles Tues­day de­scribed the At­lantic slave trade as a “shame­ful chap­ter” in his­to­ry, even as he ac­knowl­edged that “none of us, of course, would be here to­day were it not for our his­to­ry, which has shaped us in myr­i­ad ways.

Vot­ers strug­gling with high prices and an­gry over an un­pop­u­lar war with Iran will de­cide Tues­day whether to dras­ti­cal­ly shift pow­er in Wash­ing­ton in midterm elec­tions that will serve as a ref­er­en­dum on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term.

The 2027 Asian Cup soc­cer tour­na­ment has been de­layed al­most a year in the wake of re­cent dead­ly at­tacks on host coun­try Sau­di Ara­bia, be­com­ing the biggest sports event to be post­poned amid the con­flict in the Mid­dle East.