For­mer Miss T&T/World Aché Abra­hams has spo­ken out about her painful ex­pe­ri­ence in the pageant world, say­ing it left her emo­tion­al­ly, men­tal­ly, and fi­nan­cial­ly drained.

To­ba­go East MP David Thomas says the long-await­ed con­sul­ta­tion on stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion will take place in To­ba­go by the mid­dle of next week.

Oropouche res­i­dents are call­ing on the au­thor­i­ties to bring charges against a com­pa­ny which has been pol­lut­ing the South Oropouche Riv­er, al­leged­ly trig­ger­ing a fish kill yes­ter­day.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (TRHA) 2025 Sum­mer In­tern­ship Pro­gramme end­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter sev­en weeks of train­ing and ex­po­sure for 68 young peo­ple.

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA), Lester Lo­gie, is rais­ing an alarm over the coun­try’s prison sys­tem, not­ing that near­ly two-thirds of the in­car­cer­at­ed pop­u­la­tion is made up of re­mand in­mates—in­di­vid­u­als await­ing tri­al who have not been con­vict­ed of any crime.

Nine­ty-five Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers are re­ceiv­ing spe­cialised train­ing for de­ploy­ment to high-risk schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go when the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gins in Sep­tem­ber.

A Gas­par­il­lo man known to the po­lice re­mains ward­ed in In­ten­sive Care at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter he was shot dur­ing a drug bust on Wednes­day.

The Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant has re­sumed op­er­a­tions ear­li­er than ex­pect­ed af­ter its an­nu­al main­te­nance shut­down.

The gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to can­cel this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade and fire­works has been de­scribed by his­to­ri­an Dr Claudius Fer­gus as a ma­jor loss for the na­tion.

For­mer Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go Aché Abra­hams has spo­ken out about her painful ex­pe­ri­ence in the pageant world, say­ing it left her emo­tion­al­ly, men­tal­ly and fi­nan­cial­ly drained.

The in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed Alvin Ai­ley II dance com­pa­ny will per­form at Queen’s Hall on Tues­day, Au­gust 26, with two shows pre­sent­ed by Plié for the Arts in part­ner­ship with the Na­tion­al Dance As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Sun­beam Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

Nine­ty-five Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers are re­ceiv­ing spe­cialised train­ing for de­ploy­ment to high-risk schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go when the new school term be­gins.