A joint law en­force­ment op­er­a­tion in Pa­lo Seco on Wednes­day, re­sult­ed in the seizure of co­caine and Colom­bian mar­i­jua­na val­ued at more than $292 mil­lion.

Fol­low­ing a lock­down at San Fer­nan­do West Sec­ondary School on Wednes­day to pre­vent a vi­o­lent af­ter-school clash, con­cerned par­ents are now call­ing for po­lice of­fi­cers to be sta­tioned at the school.

A po­lice raid at a Cunu­pia Church ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing led to a shoot-out and ul­ti­mate­ly the deaths of a 52-year-old man and his son, po­lice said.

A date for the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2026 Bud­get will “most like­ly” be an­nounced to­day, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials said yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is deny­ing claims that her Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing regime change in Venezuela, but stopped short of say­ing whether she recog­nis­es Nicolás Maduro as the coun­try’s Pres­i­dent.

Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries, Ravi Rati­ram, has sig­naled that the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor will be a key fo­cus of the up­com­ing na­tion­al bud­get.

A lead­er­ship row grip­ping the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU), has trig­gered the for­mal in­ter­ven­tion of the Reg­is­trar of Trade Unions, who has asked for a meet­ing with pres­i­dent Don Devi­nesh about com­plaints made against him.

Frus­tra­tion is mount­ing across re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions, as the is­sue of back­pay for coun­cil­lors and al­der­men re­mains un­set­tled, with less than half of the coun­try’s 14 cor­po­ra­tions re­port­ed­ly paid to date.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is re­port­ing ear­ly signs of suc­cess from its new School-Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Unit (SOPU), with of­fi­cers em­bed­ded in 50 high-risk schools.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has as­sured To­bag­o­ni­ans that the is­land’s cur­rent wa­ter short­age is not the re­sult of mis­man­age­ment, but rather a com­bi­na­tion of re­duced rain­fall and op­er­a­tional chal­lenges with­in the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

A man ac­cused of mur­der­ing a taxi dri­ver two years ago, was freed af­ter High Court Judge Nali­ni Singh found that the State’s ev­i­dence against him was in­suf­fi­cient.

Class­es at St Bene­dict’s Col­lege in La Ro­maine will re­sume on Mon­day, sub­ject to clear­ance from the Fire Ser­vice and OS­HA, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.