Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) scored 41 out of 100 in the 2025 Cor­rup­tion Per­cep­tions In­dex (CPI), rank­ing 81st out of 182 coun­tries. The coun­try’s score has re­mained stag­nant at 41 or 42 over the past five years.

The body of 17-year-old school­boy Gabriel Nel­son was found in the wa­ters off Ma­yaro on Tues­day af­ter­noon, bring­ing an end to an in­tense search in­volv­ing po­lice, res­cue teams, vil­lagers and fish­er­folk.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent on Mon­day af­ter­noon, a 49-year-old taxi dri­ver was stabbed and robbed af­ter pick­ing up four pas­sen­gers in Pe­nal.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve an al­ter­ca­tion led to the fa­tal stab­bing of 28-year-old labour­er Kyle Ed­mund in Long­denville on Mon­day.

Pan El­ders Steel Or­ches­tra se­cured a sev­enth Medi­um Band Fi­nals ti­tle ear­ly Tues­day morn­ing, edg­ing past Courts Sound Spe­cial­ists of Laven­tille in a tight­ly con­test­ed show­down.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers at­tached to the North­ern Di­vi­sion were on mo­bile pa­trol along Main­got and Fair­ley Streets around 8 pm when they re­spond­ed to a re­port of as­sault.

As Cu­ba grap­ples with an on­go­ing fu­el cri­sis, state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) says it will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate its week­ly flight to Ha­vana, that coun­try’s cap­i­tal.

In a jaw-drop­ping fin­ish that kept Moru­ga on edge un­til the fi­nal strike, King of the Rock cham­pi­on Sel­wyn John emerged vic­to­ri­ous af­ter fac­ing off against his nephew, An­der­son Mar­cano, in a bru­tal, blood-soaked cham­pi­onship bout at the Na­tion­al Stick­fight­ing Fi­nals.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don is con­demn­ing mas band Tribe for dis­trib­ut­ing sex toys in good­ie bags to its fe­male mas­quer­aders. And he says if Car­ni­val con­tin­ues to slip in­to this type of “he­do­nism,” the Gov­ern­ment should step in and reg­u­late, par­tic­u­lar­ly Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day, if mas bands fail to do so.

Eleven-year-old Janaya Clark is this year’s Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch win­ner. She lift­ed the ti­tle fol­low­ing a spir­it­ed per­for­mance of her song, Role Mod­els, at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Garvin Hen­ry, who over­sees the North-West area in­clud­ing the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sions, said that de­spite se­vere traf­fic con­ges­tion fol­low­ing the Stink + Dut­ty fete ear­ly Sat­ur­day, mea­sures were de­ployed to mit­i­gate the dis­rup­tion.

PNM deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has ex­pressed con­cern over the pas­sage of the Gov­ern­ment’s Bail Amend­ment Bill 2026 by a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty, rather than the re­quired spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty, warn­ing that its pro­vi­sions may face le­gal chal­lenges in the courts.