The Ja­maican High Com­mis­sion com­mem­o­rat­ed 188 years of “Emancipen­dence” with a thanks­giv­ing ser­vice at the Parish of the As­sump­tion Ro­man Catholic Church in Mar­aval last Sun­day, ahead of Ja­maica’s In­de­pen­dence Day, which is cel­e­brat­ed an­nu­al­ly on Au­gust 6.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) is urg­ing cau­tion over Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s pro­pos­al to use con­vict­ed in­mates sen­tenced to hard labour to as­sist with pub­lic space main­te­nance un­der the Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS), say­ing the move must be sup­port­ed by prop­er se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures, staffing and re­sources be­fore it is im­ple­ment­ed.

Do­mini­can politi­cian Lennox Lin­ton has won a ma­jor con­sti­tu­tion­al case chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion by that coun­try’s pres­i­dent to leave the po­si­tion of Op­po­si­tion Leader va­cant for al­most 18 months.

Po­lice seized a firearm, two rounds of .45-cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion and ap­prox­i­mate­ly 500 grammes of cannabis dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Va­len­cia on Mon­day night.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion PNM of stand­ing in the way of ef­forts to dis­man­tle the coun­try’s drug trade, claim­ing the par­ty’s re­sis­tance to 30 pro­posed joint po­lice and army posts is pro­tect­ing what she de­scribed as its “lo­cal drug mafia friends.”

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment plans to tap what he de­scribed as "the largest labour force in the na­tion" by de­ploy­ing prison in­mates sen­tenced to hard labour to help main­tain pub­lic spaces while the re­place­ment for CEPEP is rolled out.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh says the near­ly 6,000 jobs lost dur­ing the first three months of 2026 should not be viewed in iso­la­tion, ar­gu­ing that the de­cline re­flects a re­cur­ring post-Christ­mas em­ploy­ment pat­tern and does not, by it­self, sig­nal a weak­en­ing labour mar­ket.

Crick­et fans at­tend­ing this year's Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) will be able to ac­cess free health screen­ings at all eight tour­na­ment venues as or­gan­is­ers ex­pand the league's com­mu­ni­ty out­reach be­yond the bound­ary.

Ma­yaro MP Nicholas Mor­ris has wel­comed Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a joint army-po­lice post in his con­stituen­cy, say­ing it re­flects Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing se­cu­ri­ty in both rur­al and ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused the gov­ern­ment of us­ing dis­trac­tions to di­vert at­ten­tion from wors­en­ing eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, af­ter fig­ures from the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) showed rough­ly 6,000 jobs were lost in the first quar­ter of 2026.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of us­ing a re­cent­ly an­nounced joint po­lice and mil­i­tary se­cu­ri­ty ini­tia­tive as a means of rein­tro­duc­ing a pre­vi­ous­ly pro­posed se­cu­ri­ty mod­el, while rais­ing con­cerns about fund­ing, im­ple­men­ta­tion and the role of the mil­i­tary.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that 30 joint army-po­lice posts will be es­tab­lished across Trinidad and To­ba­go over the next four months, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to ex­pand its se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).