The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG) has ac­ti­vat­ed a com­pre­hen­sive na­tion­al re­sponse to Ad­verse Weath­er Alert #2 – Yel­low Lev­el, which re­mains in ef­fect from 6:00 PM on Sat­ur­day, May 17, to 6:00 PM on Mon­day, May 19, 2025.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has asked mem­bers of his par­ty to get ready for the next THA elec­tion—even though no date has been an­nounced.

A 22-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an armed con­fronta­tion ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing in Mal­ick, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed shoot­ing in San Juan hours ear­li­er.

A dis­pute over un­paid en­trance fees at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go end­ed in vi­o­lence on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon, when a man was chopped dur­ing a con­fronta­tion.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has is­sued a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry high­light­ing re­port­ed flood lo­ca­tions fol­low­ing re­cent rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an­oth­er Yel­low Lev­el Alert warn­ing of an in­creased like­li­hood of ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions over the next 24 hours. A high (80%) chance of in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms is fore­cast over Trinidad, par­tic­u­lar­ly af­fect­ing south­ern and cen­tral ar­eas.

Overnight tor­ren­tial show­ers have re­sult­ed in street flood­ing in some parts of Pe­nal Rock Road.

Ex­perts and for­mer of­fi­cials are sound­ing the alarm as the fu­ture of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) hangs in the bal­ance, with no clear di­rec­tion from the new ad­min­is­tra­tion fol­low­ing its de­ci­sion to aban­don the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment’s trans­for­ma­tion plan.

Less than three weeks af­ter re­sign­ing as chair­man of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), Ravin­dra Nan­ga has ac­cused Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath of go­ing on a witch hunt by ac­cus­ing the for­mer board of cor­rup­tion and wrong­do­ing.

A small fire broke out on the ve­ran­dah of the Na­tion­al Li­brary Build­ing in Port-of-Spain around 9 pm on Fri­day, prompt­ing an emer­gency re­sponse from staff and fire of­fi­cials.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has been en­dorsed by her col­leagues for the post of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader and so far she is the on­ly can­di­date vy­ing for the po­si­tion.

Spe­cial­ist med­ical of­fi­cer Dr Joel Teelucks­ingh, who has been cleared of wrong­do­ing near­ly two months af­ter the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an ar­ti­cle he wrote, said the or­deal has strength­ened his com­mit­ment to speak­ing the truth.