For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is crit­i­cis­ing Gov­ern­ment plans to in­crease the strength of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice from 7,884 of­fi­cers to 10,200 of­fi­cers over five years, ar­gu­ing that the coun­try needs im­proved polic­ing sys­tems and ac­count­abil­i­ty rather than more per­son­nel.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an up­dat­ed yel­low lev­el high wind alert for Trinidad and To­ba­go and sur­round­ing wa­ters, warn­ing that breezy to windy con­di­tions are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in­ter­mit­tent­ly un­til to­mor­row af­ter­noon.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice seized more than $1.3 mil­lion worth of cannabis and a firearm dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Cunu­pia on Fri­day.

The crew of a Ukrain­ian air­craft, which land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day night with sev­er­al tonnes of in­dus­tri­al ex­plo­sives on board, was al­lowed to leave Trinidad last night, af­ter fac­ing hours of in­ter­ro­ga­tion by lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty au­thor­i­ties.

Sev­er­al sen­a­tors, in­clud­ing mem­bers on the Gov­ern­ment’s side, yes­ter­day re­vealed they were com­plete­ly un­aware of the se­cu­ri­ty threat which At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie claimed caused ex­tra vig­i­lance at last week’s par­lia­men­tary sit­ting.

Se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and Op­po­si­tion MPs have con­tend­ed that de­spite re­cent claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dent linked to a gang mem­ber last Fri­day, prompt­ed height­ened pro­tec­tion for mem­bers of par­lia­ment and se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, they don’t feel un­safe or alarmed.

The peo­ple of Good­wood are call­ing for jus­tice in the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

A fall from a tree is be­lieved to have caused the death of a Ba­co­let man whose body was found float­ing in the sea in Mt St George yes­ter­day.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an oil leak near Rang­ie Nanan Dri­ve, Tarou­ba, af­ter res­i­dents com­plained of hy­dro­car­bon fumes, while a moth­er and her 12-year-old daugh­ter sought med­ical at­ten­tion af­ter falling ill.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Sophia Chote and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi are push­ing for the Vic­tims’ Rights Bill, 2026, to be sent to a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee, warn­ing that the pro­posed law out­lines pro­tec­tions for vic­tims with­out clear­ly ex­plain­ing how they would be en­forced.

De­spite ac­knowl­edg­ing con­cerns raised in the Sen­ate, De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge says the Vic­tims’ Rights Bill, 2026, must still be passed, ar­gu­ing that vic­tims of crime have wait­ed too long for mean­ing­ful jus­tice with­in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein has de­fend­ed Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on the Land­mark­TT/Al­lam­by hous­ing de­vel­op­ment, re­ject­ing Op­po­si­tion claims over land trans­fers.