Mem­bers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force re­cov­ered an il­le­gal firearm dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Port of Spain Dis­trict, dur­ing the pe­ri­od 8:00 pm on Sat­ur­day 23rd and 12:30 am on Sun­day 24th May, 2020.

Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Her Ex­cel­len­cy Paula-Mae Weeks, be­lieves that de­spite the chal­lenges and hard­ship wrought by the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, “that joy will still abound as fam­i­lies ex­change gifts, pre­pare meals and give thanks to Al­lah” as Mus­lims in this coun­try, and around the world, ob­serve Eid-ul-Fitr.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Siparia, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC, is urg­ing this coun­try’s cit­i­zens to use the prin­ci­ples of Eid—spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, sac­ri­fice, prayer, fast­ing, ded­i­ca­tion—to “strength­en our in­di­vid­ual sense of pur­pose go­ing for­ward” in a post-COVID-19 world.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) con­tin­ues its test­ing regime to de­ter­mine the in­ci­dence of COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with the num­ber of sam­ples un­der as­sess­ment ris­ing to 2,906, as of the morn­ing of Sun­day 24 May 2020.

The first of five Iran­ian oil tankers head­ing to Venezuela to help ease fu­el short­ages has en­tered the coun­try's wa­ters, en­coun­ter­ing no im­me­di­ate signs of US in­ter­fer­ence amid a diplo­mat­ic stand­off.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has salut­ed mem­bers of the Mus­lim Com­mu­ni­ty for their gen­eros­i­ty and car­ing of the most vul­ner­a­ble in so­ci­ety, dur­ing the cur­rent COVID-19 cri­sis.

There is no place like home. That's the sen­ti­ment ex­pressed by Ster­ling How­ell, leader of the mu­sic band Xcite, who re­turned to Trinidad on Sat­ur­day night along with five oth­er mu­si­cians af­ter spend­ing the last few months off the coast of Bar­ba­dos aboard the Caribbean Princess.

As med­ical per­son­nel at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH) pre­pared to re­sume elec­tive surg­eries on Fri­day, they were de­layed for a few hours more af­ter a wild mon­key was found in the op­er­at­ing the­atre.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has al­lo­cat­ed $100 mil­lion to deal with this year's ex­pect­ed above nor­mal rain­fall which can lead to per­sis­tent floods.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is con­cerned that cit­i­zens are now break­ing the law in an ef­fort to have their griev­ances high­light­ed in the me­dia, in the hope that they can pres­sure the au­thor­i­ties to act ac­cord­ing­ly.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley of hid­ing from the me­dia as he at­tempts to evade se­ri­ous ques­tions re­lat­ing to the gov­er­nance of this coun­try.

The screams of two griev­ing moth­ers pierced the air at the Va­len­cia RC Ceme­tery Sat­ur­day as they gave a fi­nal send off to their sons Ju­nior Soogrim, 13 and Ja­son, eight (both broth­ers) af­ter they drowned ex­act­ly one week ago at an aban­doned pool at an il­le­gal quar­ry in Tapana Sankar­ali Road, Va­len­cia.