Busi­ness mag­nate Emile Elias and his com­pa­ny NH In­ter­na­tion­al have been or­dered to pay full le­gal costs to En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal af­ter the High Court dis­missed a defama­tion claim linked to com­ments made dur­ing a 2016 po­lit­i­cal meet­ing.

The dis­clo­sure of 426 pri­vate sec­tor re­trench­ments in Trinidad and To­ba­go in 2025, record­ed un­der the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act (RS­BA), lays bare a par­tial but telling snap­shot of labour dis­place­ment at a time of eco­nom­ic ad­just­ment, cor­po­rate re­struc­tur­ing and grow­ing pres­sure on the leg­isla­tive frame­work gov­ern­ing re­dun­dan­cy.

T&T’s par­tic­i­pa­tion this week in the First Con­fer­ence on Tran­si­tion­ing Away from Fos­sil Fu­els comes at a crit­i­cal junc­ture, as de­bate in­ten­si­fies over how the coun­try can bal­ance its eco­nom­ic de­pen­dence on oil and gas with the glob­al push for a struc­tured and fi­nanced en­er­gy tran­si­tion.

Of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion say they will in­crease their pres­ence and car­ry out fo­cused search­es fol­low­ing three mur­ders in Emon Lane, Va­len­cia, days apart.

Hours be­fore the fu­ner­al of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley, one of her col­leagues and two oth­er men ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly in court charged with four of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der.

The High Court has dis­missed a con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge brought by De­nesh Ma­haraj, who claimed his week-long de­ten­tion dur­ing the 2025 State of Emer­gency was un­law­ful.

A 39-year-old man was shot dead in Emon Lane, Va­len­cia on Sun­day night. The in­ci­dent marks the third killing in the area with­in days and has deep­ened fear among res­i­dents.

Po­lice are work­ing to con­firm the iden­ti­ty of burnt skele­tal re­mains dis­cov­ered off a track in Bon Air on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has wel­comed the elec­tion of Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis as head of the par­ty’s To­ba­go Coun­cil, de­scrib­ing it as a key mo­ment as the par­ty con­tin­ues its re­build­ing ef­forts fol­low­ing its de­feat in the THA elec­tions.

A man in his ear­ly 20s, be­lieved to be a street dweller, was shot dead on a stair­case in Bel­mont on Sun­day night.

Af­ter vis­it­ing Grena­da three weeks ago, Venezue­lan act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez ar­rived in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day night for “high-lev­el dis­cus­sions” dur­ing an of­fi­cial state vis­it.

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is the new po­lit­i­cal leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.