Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der have re­ject­ed claims that he held im­prop­er meet­ings with gang lead­ers while he served as a po­lice of­fi­cer be­fore leav­ing the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to pur­sue a ca­reer in pol­i­tics.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to ar­rive in the Unit­ed States this evening on her first in­ter­na­tion­al trip since tak­ing of­fice, ahead of her par­tic­i­pa­tion in the 80th Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) and re­lat­ed events.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers be­lieves this coun­try does not have to wor­ry about be­ing in­tim­i­dat­ed by the Unit­ed States af­ter Trinidad and To­ba­go reaf­firmed its recog­ni­tion of Pales­tine and its sup­port of the “two-state so­lu­tion”.

A 49-year-old teacher has been charged with pos­ses­sion of nar­cotics for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at St Julien Pres­by­ter­ian School, Princes Town.

Mar­lon King will have to face a third tri­al for the bru­tal mur­der of Amy Emi­ly An­na­muntho­do.

Days af­ter two men were killed dur­ing a pur­port­ed shootout with po­lice in San­gre Grande, T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, act­ing ASP Gideon Dick­son, says while all in­ci­dents of po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings are con­cern­ing, added at­ten­tion should al­so be placed on the pro­lif­er­a­tion of high-pow­ered guns and the preva­lence of vi­o­lent of­fend­ers still free to con­tin­ue at­tack­ing per­sons.

As a spate of court cas­es con­tin­ue to col­lapse, le­gal ex­perts are rais­ing alarm over what they de­scribe as sys­temic fail­ures in the na­tion’s crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. The re­cent dis­missal of high-pro­file mat­ters, in­clud­ing the long-run­ning 100-count fraud case against for­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram, has reignit­ed calls for ur­gent re­forms.

One hunter be­lieves that the pres­ence of US naval ships in the Caribbean wa­ters can as­sist in curb­ing the smug­gling of il­le­gal wildlife in­to T&T.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go marks 49 years as a re­pub­lic, San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris said the na­tion’s lead­ers must lead with dig­ni­ty and hon­esty.

The search for 57-year-old Shelawai­htie “Meera” Be­dasse of Coro­man­del Vil­lage, Ce­dros, came to a trag­ic end to­day af­ter her body was dis­cov­ered hang­ing from a tree near Clifton Hill beach.

Just months af­ter Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) restart­ed flights be­tween Mon­tego Bay/Kingston and Fort Laud­erdale, the air­line is end­ing the ser­vice due to poor per­for­mance. In a me­dia re­lease the air­line said the de­ci­sion was tak­en due to the “cur­rent eco­nom­ic con­di­tions im­pact­ing the Ja­maica–Fort Laud­erdale mar­ket” which re­quires the air­line to “re­al­lo­cate re­sources”. The last ser­vice will op­er­ate on No­vem­ber 1st, 2025. CAL has of­fered pas­sen­gers hold­ing con­firmed tick­ets a full re­fund or the op­tion to place their tick­et val­ue on hold to be used to­ward fu­ture trav­el. 

Three Unit­ed States leg­is­la­tors have writ­ten to the oil and gas gi­ant, Exxon­Mo­bil, on how its pay­ments to the Guyana gov­ern­ment re­gard­ing the 2016 Stabroek Block Pe­tro­le­um Agree­ment (PA), have af­fect­ed its US fed­er­al tax li­a­bil­i­ty.