Two peo­ple have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der Reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, af­ter the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty de­ter­mined their de­ten­tion was nec­es­sary to pre­vent acts con­sid­ered prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is strength­en­ing its re­sponse to home in­va­sions by work­ing more close­ly with com­mu­ni­ties and di­vi­sion­al po­lice units to en­sure a rapid ex­change of in­for­ma­tion dur­ing emer­gen­cies, ac­cord­ing to head of the Home In­va­sion Team (HIT) ACP Richard Smith.

Pres­i­dent of the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) Ger­ard Gor­don has ques­tioned whether act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Car­los Cor­raspe was af­ford­ed due process be­fore be­ing sent on four months’ ac­cu­mu­lat­ed va­ca­tion leave amid al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing the treat­ment of de­tainee Do­minic Hadeed, founder and ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd, at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison.

Rel­a­tives of miss­ing fish­er­man Shan­non Mo­hammed con­tin­ue to cling to hope that he and five oth­er crew mem­bers aboard the MV St Vin­cent VII are still alive some­where in the At­lantic Ocean.

The loss of chil­dren has be­come the most heart­break­ing as­pect of Guyana’s worst mar­itime dis­as­ter in liv­ing mem­o­ry, with Prime Min­is­ter Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips ad­mit­ting that the tragedy has deeply af­fect­ed him as the na­tion con­tin­ues to search for sur­vivors and re­cov­er vic­tims.

To­ba­go stake­hold­ers say there are valu­able lessons to be learned from the mar­itime tragedy in Guyana.

The Gov­ern­ment said that a Tier 4 da­ta cen­tre, which first be­gan un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion, is not yet com­plete even as it moves ahead with pro­pos­als for two new da­ta cen­tres with Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) min­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties.

As Guyanese fam­i­lies await an­swers fol­low­ing the trag­ic loss of lives aboard the MV Bari­ma, mar­itime ex­perts are warn­ing that Cari­com’s push to re­con­nect the re­gion by sea must be matched by stronger safe­ty sys­tems.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment re­ject­ed a pro­pos­al for an ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tre be­cause the com­pa­ny be­hind it was in­ter­est­ed on­ly in ben­e­fit­ing from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sub­sidised wa­ter and elec­tric­i­ty rates.

Af­ter years of dev­as­tat­ing floods that de­stroyed homes and dis­rupt­ed lives, res­i­dents of flood-prone com­mu­ni­ties in cen­tral Trinidad say they are once again brac­ing for the worst as the rainy sea­son re­turns.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has earned its first-ever medal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Chem­istry Olympiad (IChO), with Na­pari­ma Col­lege stu­dent Regi­nald Mo­hammed cap­tur­ing a bronze medal at the 57th edi­tion of the glob­al com­pe­ti­tion in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.

A Diego Mar­tin woman’s apart­ment and an au­to sup­ply store were de­stroyed af­ter a fire broke out at a build­ing yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.