Large parts of Cu­ba were with­out pow­er on Tues­day af­ter its third black­out in four months un­der­scored the is­land’s deep­en­ing en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic crises and ris­ing po­lit­i­cal ten­sions with U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

The Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) of the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Tues­day said a sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed and four vic­tims of hu­man traf­fick­ing res­cued dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tion in Rio Claro, the largest town in south­east­ern Trinidad over the last week­end.

Two sus­pects, in­clud­ing a 14-year-old boy, are ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned by po­lice fol­low­ing a home in­va­sion in Val­sayn on Mon­day af­ter­noon that left one of their ac­com­plices dead.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy in­stal­la­tions re­main se­cure de­spite ris­ing glob­al ten­sions and the re­cent re­moval of a Unit­ed States radar sys­tem from To­ba­go, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal said Mon­day.

Four Venezue­lan na­tion­als, in­clud­ing two mi­nors, were res­cued from a sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tion in Rio Claro, while a busi­ness­man was ar­rest­ed and de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

The con­tro­ver­sial ground/air task-ori­ent­ed US mil­i­tary-grade radar at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point is gone.

To­bag­o­ni­ans have ex­pressed mixed re­ac­tions fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of the Unit­ed States-in­stalled radar from the is­land.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is rais­ing ma­jor con­cerns over what it de­scribes as a trou­bling lack of trans­paren­cy over the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the US mil­i­tary radar that was in­stalled in To­ba­go last year.

Days be­fore no­to­ri­ous busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra was gunned down last Fri­day, the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Bu­reau (FIB) of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) sought doc­u­ments from at least four con­trac­tors for al­leged­ly do­ing busi­ness with him.

A con­sti­tu­tion­al case brought by busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra and his com­pa­ny DG Homes, over a search con­duct­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers in 2024, is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue even af­ter his mur­der last Fri­day.

Gov­ern­ment paid le­gal fees con­cern­ing var­i­ous en­er­gy mat­ters to sev­er­al at­tor­neys and firms over May 1, 2025 to Jan­u­ary 31, 2026 in­clud­ing Black­stone Cham­bers, Alexan­der, Je­re­mie and Co, Free­dom Law Cham­bers, Shas­tri A. Roberts and Deb­o­rah Peake (SC).

Twen­ty-year-old can­cer pa­tient Di­nesh Gadraj has be­gun a new round of med­ical test­ing in In­dia as his fam­i­ly press­es on with ef­forts to raise hun­dreds of thou­sands of US dol­lars need­ed for the life-sav­ing can­cer treat­ment doc­tors say could give him a fight­ing chance.