Po­lice record­ed more than 40,000 re­ports un­der the Lar­ce­ny Act over al­most six years. How­ev­er, few­er than 8,000 of­fences led to a sus­pect be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged.

The de­lay in ap­point­ing five new Court of Ap­peal judges is rais­ing con­cerns in the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty as three sit­ting ap­pel­late judges pre­pare to demit of­fice, cre­at­ing un­cer­tain­ty over the arrange­ments for No­vem­ber.

In the last year, sev­er­al state bod­ies have been found to be in breach of the pro­cure­ment law, po­ten­tial­ly cost­ing tax­pay­ers al­most $166,000 in le­gal fees. These in­clude three ten­der eval­u­a­tion fail­ures sim­i­lar to those un­cov­ered in the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) can­celled $3.48 bil­lion hous­ing pro­gramme.

In re­cent weeks, this coun­try’s his­toric build­ings have come in­to sharp fo­cus af­ter the Gov­ern­ment said White­hall re­quired sub­stan­tial re­fur­bish­ment and it did not have the funds to do so at the mo­ment.

To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2026 kicked off with an in­ci­dent which of­fi­cials say did not dis­rupt the fifth year of the Oc­to­ber fes­tiv­i­ties.

The an­nu­al Di­vali Na­gar re­mains an im­por­tant plat­form for pre­serv­ing In­di­an cul­ture, bring­ing gen­er­a­tions to­geth­er and al­low­ing the wider na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to ap­pre­ci­ate the con­tri­bu­tion of In­di­an her­itage to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mul­ti­cul­tur­al so­ci­ety.

Chris­t­ian church­es are study­ing a new law passed by Par­lia­ment that could make the tra­di­tion­al sip of wine tak­en by chil­dren and teenagers dur­ing Holy Com­mu­nion a $50,000 of­fence, and plan to make rep­re­sen­ta­tions be­fore Christ­mas.

A search for a kid­napped Venezue­lan teenag­er has re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of a sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing ring. 

To­ba­go Car­ni­val’s J’ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions end­ed with­out any ar­rests or se­ri­ous in­ci­dents on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, with po­lice re­port­ing a large­ly in­ci­dent-free start to the fes­tiv­i­ties.

US Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau has thanked Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go for sup­port­ing calls for de­mo­c­ra­t­ic change in Cu­ba.

Two sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed and 16 Venezue­lan na­tion­als, in­clud­ing two mi­nors, were found dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Cunu­pia amid in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping.

A trade union leader yes­ter­day called on Gov­ern­ment to keep the promis­es it made dur­ing the cam­paign trail and al­so chal­lenged oth­er union lead­ers, whom he said had lost their way, to stand with work­ers or step aside, warn­ing that sol­i­dar­i­ty could not be prac­tised on­ly when con­ve­nient.