Turks and Caicos-based air­line In­ter­Caribbean Air­ways is set to in­crease its ser­vice to T&T from four week­ly flights to dai­ly flights.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced an in­ter­im wa­ter sup­ply sched­ule for Point Fortin fol­low­ing an un­planned ser­vice in­ter­rup­tion caused by emer­gency re­pairs at the Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is tak­ing im­me­di­ate and sus­tained ac­tion to ad­dress re­ports of dis­coloured wa­ter af­fect­ing cus­tomers in some ar­eas.

The event is ex­pect­ed to be at­tend­ed by sev­er­al dig­ni­taries, in­clud­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine. The four-star ho­tel will fea­ture 200 rooms, vil­las, town­hous­es and recre­ation­al ameni­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has paid out near­ly $800 mil­lion in over­time in just two years and eight months, with ex­pen­di­ture for the first eight months of 2026 al­ready sur­pass­ing the en­tire bill for 2025, even as the coun­try pre­pares for an­oth­er round of height­ened polic­ing un­der the new Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is de­fend­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) $800 mil­lion over­time bill as the ser­vice faces in­tense scruti­ny over pay­ments ac­crued dur­ing the three States of Emer­gency (SoEs) de­clared be­tween 2024 and 2026.

At­tor­ney Keron Ramkhal­whan is call­ing for an in­de­pen­dent au­dit in­to the man­age­ment of over­time with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), fol­low­ing rev­e­la­tions that near­ly $800 mil­lion was paid to po­lice of­fi­cers in just two years and eight months.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has crit­i­cised the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) es­ca­lat­ing over­time bill, ques­tion­ing whether tax­pay­ers are see­ing re­sults from the hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars be­ing spent.

Two sus­pect­ed gun­men were killed and a po­lice of­fi­cer in­jured dur­ing a shootout with po­lice in Buc­coo on Wednes­day night, mark­ing To­ba­go’s first po­lice-in­volved fa­tal shoot­ing of 2026.

The ef­fec­tive­ness of any per­mit sys­tem in­tro­duced un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s new Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion will de­pend on how pro­fes­sion­al­ly and in­tel­li­gent­ly it is ad­min­is­tered, says re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar paid trib­ute to ca­lyp­so icon Dr Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co af­ter sign­ing the con­do­lence book in his ho­n­our at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) on Thurs­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has cap­tured an­oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al pageant ti­tle, af­ter lo­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tive Leeann Dass took the Woman of the Uni­verse Elite 2026 in South Ko­rea on Wednes­day.