On No­vem­ber 10, 2026, un­der Le­gal No­tice No. 847 (Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (Closed Area) Or­der, 2026), Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo of­fi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed the Mal­oney Build­ings Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment with­in Polic­ing Dis­trict 2 as the na­tion's first "closed area," trig­ger­ing a 9 pm to 5 am cur­few un­der Le­gal No­tice No. 848.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, SC, says the Po­lice Ser­vice did sev­er­al “dry runs” be­fore it im­ple­ment­ed the first closed area un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act.

Matthew Pe­ters, pres­i­dent of the Mal­oney Gar­dens Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil, has con­demned the 9 pm to 5 am cur­few, claim­ing that des­ig­nat­ing their com­mu­ni­ty a closed area treats res­i­dents like guinea pigs to test the reach of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill.

The next Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go will be cho­sen tonight as 17 beau­ties vie for the cov­et­ed ti­tle.

For­mer Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Johnnie Abra­ham, head of the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre (NOC) and Field Of­fice, is among 11 mem­bers ap­point­ed to the Gam­bling Con­trol Com­mis­sion.

The Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion has de­fend­ed more than $500,000 ear­marked for Tu­na­puna Week, in­sist­ing the ex­pen­di­ture does not come from its De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme al­lo­ca­tion or af­fect fund­ing for es­sen­tial mu­nic­i­pal ser­vices.

Neil Ram­s­ingh is out as a di­rec­tor on the Pa­lo Seco Agri­cul­tur­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (PSAEL) board.

Ca­lyp­son­ian Mar­vel­lous Mar­va (Mar­va Joseph) has died, bring­ing to a close a ca­reer that spanned more than four decades and earned her a place among the women who helped shape Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ca­lyp­so tra­di­tion.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence is nev­er short of Trin­bag­o­ni­ans. They are in ne­go­ti­at­ing rooms, tech­ni­cal ar­eas of both ex­per­tise and ad­vis­ers, civ­il so­ci­ety mem­bers talk­ing on pan­els, en­vi­ron­men­tal ad­vo­cates protest­ing, sci­en­tists, aca­d­e­mics, and re­searchers. Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ties to COP date back to the gen­e­sis of the Unit­ed Na­tions Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UN­FC­CC). When the UN­FC­CC was adopt­ed in 1992, T&T signed on at the Rio Earth Sum­mit. Two years lat­er, this coun­try rat­i­fied the Con­ven­tion and be­came a for­mal par­ty. We sub­se­quent­ly at­tend­ed the first COP in 1995, play­ing an ac­tive role in the dis­cus­sions and sub­mit­ting a pro­pos­al for stronger emis­sions re­duc­tion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of a man found in down­town Port-of-Spain, whom they sus­pect may have been a street dweller.

The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go is ad­vo­cat­ing for con­trol of the Knowsley Build­ing, which it says has stood emp­ty for the past three years af­ter hous­ing the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency and the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is ques­tion­ing the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s claim that 95 per cent of back­pay owed to ac­tive teach­ers has been dis­bursed, say­ing it has not re­ceived the in­for­ma­tion need­ed to ver­i­fy the fig­ure.