Truck­ers are com­plain­ing over im­prop­er san­i­ta­tion aboard the US$25,000-per-day Blue Wave Har­mo­ny car­go ves­sel.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of De­nom­i­na­tion­al Boards of Ed­u­ca­tion (ADBE) says the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion is threat­en­ing par­ents’ con­sti­tu­tion­al right to choose a re­li­gious ed­u­ca­tion for their chil­dren, as ten­sions es­ca­late over how teacher va­can­cies in gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry schools are be­ing filled.

A High Court judge has grant­ed leave to chal­lenge the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (JLSC) over its pro­longed si­lence and fail­ure to make a de­ci­sion on a re­newed com­plaint of ju­di­cial mis­con­duct against two High Court judges.

The High Court has cleared a man of charges of at­tempt­ed mur­der, shoot­ing with in­tent to do griev­ous bod­i­ly harm, pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

Sev­er­al men ac­cused of in­volve­ment in vi­o­lent home in­va­sion gangs across Cen­tral and South Trinidad, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

There have been two mur­ders in Mor­vant, as homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors work to­wards con­firm­ing whether there is any link be­tween the two killings.

T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) pres­i­dent, ASP Ish­mael Pitt, says ad­di­tion­al po­lice of­fi­cers would fur­ther bol­ster the strength and ef­fi­cien­cies of the po­lice in crime-fight­ing goals, as he ap­proved of re­cent plans aimed at in­creas­ing man­pow­er with­in the ranks of the ser­vice.

The nude body of an uniden­ti­fied man with head in­juries was dis­cov­ered at Co­cal Es­tate in Man­zanil­la yes­ter­day, prompt­ing a homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tion by po­lice.

Armed of­fi­cers at­tached to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pri­vate res­i­dence in Phillip­ine rushed from the com­pound yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter a grey pick-up slammed in­to the prop­er­ty’s perime­ter wall, trig­ger­ing an im­me­di­ate se­cu­ri­ty re­sponse along the SS Erin Road.

It has been al­most four months since Joshua Sama­roo was killed by po­lice dur­ing a dra­mat­ic con­fronta­tion in St Au­gus­tine, an in­ci­dent that sparked pub­lic out­rage and wide­spread crit­i­cism of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

A 22-year-old British na­tion­al is ex­pect­ed to face charges, af­ter of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed near­ly $6 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sun­day.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor Bald­win Mootoo, a pi­o­neer­ing aca­d­e­m­ic whose ca­reer was deeply wo­ven in­to the in­sti­tu­tion’s his­to­ry and growth.