Mo­torists who thought they were be­ing stopped for dri­ving in­frac­tions, were in­stead hand­ed Di­vali sweets, food, and drinks along the St Mary’s Main Road in Moru­ga on Thurs­day night.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen says the al­lo­ca­tion of the sev­en Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-led cor­po­ra­tions is greater than the com­bined al­lo­ca­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)-con­trolled cor­po­ra­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says she will not be si­lenced, af­ter be­ing re­ferred to Par­lia­ment’s Com­mit­tee of Priv­i­leges yes­ter­day for crit­i­cis­ing House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh’s con­duct.

That’s how the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment’s 2026 Bud­get and poli­cies will af­fect cit­i­zens, says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, who has de­fend­ed drinkers and al­so warned of re­ces­sion and de­val­u­a­tion of the T&T dol­lar loom­ing.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — The Unit­ed States took sur­vivors in­to cus­tody af­ter its mil­i­tary struck a sus­pect­ed drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel in the Caribbean—the first at­tack that any­one es­caped from alive since Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump be­gan launch­ing dead­ly strikes in the re­gion last month, a de­fence of­fi­cial and an­oth­er per­son fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter said yes­ter­day.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is still gath­er­ing in­for­ma­tion on the killing of two Trinida­di­an fish­er­men in a US Navy airstrike off Venezuela ear­li­er this week.

Colonel Ke­ston Charles has of­fi­cial­ly demit­ted of­fice as the 20th Com­mand­ing Of­fi­cer of the T&T Reg­i­ment, hand­ing over com­mand to Colonel Dwayne Ed­wards.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a fra­cas at a school in Port-of-Spain that in­volved one of their own, as well as stu­dents and staff.

So­cial me­dia blog­ger Rho­da Bharath says she is worth every cent paid to her by the State for the past eight years un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion.

For months, res­i­dents of La Sei­va, Mar­aval, have been liv­ing with­out pipe-borne wa­ter, and forced to re­ly on riv­er and rain­wa­ter to sur­vive. Many now use the near­by riv­er to wash clothes, flush toi­lets, and clean their ve­hi­cles, as the com­mu­ni­ty’s taps re­main dry.

Pri­ma­ry school teacher Kevin Do­man, who was al­leged­ly caught with co­caine at his work­place, has been grant­ed $65,000 bail.

An au­top­sy has re­vealed that a four-year-old girl, who was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal last week af­ter she was re­port­ed­ly found un­re­spon­sive, was mur­dered.