Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal have been giv­en a lit­tle over a month to file a de­fence to a defama­tion law­suit brought by a busi­ness­man and two of his com­pa­nies.

Se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts are warn­ing that adopt­ing El Sal­vador’s hard­line ap­proach to crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go could back­fire, un­der­min­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence, dam­ag­ing the coun­try’s in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ing, and open­ing the door to hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions.

Mo­ments af­ter shop­pers and vis­i­tors to Long Cir­cu­lar Mall, St James, rushed to safe­ty, af­ter gun­shots rang out around mid­day dur­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion be­tween se­cu­ri­ty guards and an armed ban­dit, the dead man’s wife ar­rived at the scene and broke down in tears as she watched his body on the ground.

The body of a man, which was found along the seashore near the Paragon Sports and Cul­tur­al Club along the West­ern Main Road, Co­corite, on Tues­day morn­ing, re­mained uniden­ti­fied up to yes­ter­day.

Bar­ry Padarath, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, and Dr Micheal Dowlath, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, led a meet­ing on Wednes­day at the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties’ head of­fice in St. Clair to dis­cuss the Gov­ern­ment’s up­com­ing lap­top dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gramme, set to launch in the new school term be­gin­ning Sep­tem­ber 2025.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Sen­a­tor Eli Za­k­our says he will en­sure the Ari­ma bus ar­rives on time, fol­low­ing a site vis­it to en­gage with com­muters.

The In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA) has is­sued a strong call for im­me­di­ate ac­tion to pro­tect To­ba­go’s tourism in­dus­try fol­low­ing the U.S. State De­part­ment’s Lev­el 3 trav­el ad­vi­so­ry is­sued on May 7, 2025.

Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters has of­fi­cial­ly re­signed as Chair­man of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC).

Nazrudeen Sookoor, al­so known as “Moko”, a 32-year-old labour­er from Princes Town, has been charged with the mur­der of a 57-year-old woman who was shot on 27 Jan­u­ary 2025 and died weeks lat­er.

Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says his coun­try needs a com­mer­cial ecosys­tem that pro­motes long-term in­vest­ment in the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor to sig­nif­i­cant­ly boost na­tion­al out­puts and ful­ly sus­tain vis­i­tors to the is­land.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has di­rect­ed Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher to pro­ceed on six­ty-six (66) days’ va­ca­tion leave with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

An uniden­ti­fied man was shot and killed by a se­cu­ri­ty guard sec­onds af­ter rob­bing a woman of her car at Long Cir­cu­lar Mall just af­ter mid­day.