Twen­ty six young peo­ple brought the cur­tain down on this year’s Pres­i­dent’s Pan Camp with a per­for­mance at Pres­i­dent’s House on Sat­ur­day, cap­ping six days of mu­sic, men­tor­ship and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment aimed at build­ing con­fi­dence, lead­er­ship and re­silience.

Lester Al­leyne has been named as the Pres­i­dent of the Ro­tary Club of Diego Mar­tin Board for 2026/2027.

New U.K. Prime Min­is­ter Andy Burn­ham gath­ered his Cab­i­net for its first meet­ing on Tues­day and vowed to take a “one-team ap­proach” de­spite purg­ing al­lies of pre­de­ces­sor Keir Starmer from the gov­ern­ment.

Diplo­mats sought Tues­day to sal­vage the col­lapsed in­ter­im deal be­tween Iran and the Unit­ed States even as both coun­tries con­tin­ued to launch at­tacks in a 10th day of re­newed fight­ing.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment says the po­lice are con­duct­ing “ a com­pre­hen­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tion” in­to the cir­cum­stances that led to the MV Bari­ma cap­siz­ing last Sat­ur­day night, re­sult­ing so far in the deaths of 27 peo­ple and the res­cue of 69 oth­ers.

For­mer com­mis­sion­er of po­lice Gary Grif­fith is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) leg­is­la­tion gives too much unchecked pow­er to the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and could be abused by fu­ture gov­ern­ments.

A 27-year-old Sea Lots man is be­ing treat­ed for gun­shot wounds af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a pis­tol at po­lice on pa­trol on Mon­day morn­ing.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives have re­ceived ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard to charge a 23-year-old man with the mur­der of Va­len­cia res­i­dent, 82-year-old James Le Cadre.

De­tails in­to the shoot­ing re­main un­clear. How­ev­er, po­lice sources con­firm that of­fi­cers of mul­ti­ple units with­in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion re­spond­ed to a re­port of a home in­va­sion in progress at a prop­er­ty near Rapsey and McIn­roy Streets, Curepe at around 10 am on Mon­day.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) in charge of Ad­min­is­tra­tion Ju­nior Ben­jamin is boast­ing about the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s abil­i­ty to keep the mur­der rate at low­er lev­els than last year.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has ex­pressed con­cern over per­son­al at­tacks against Court of Ap­peal judges, fol­low­ing their rul­ing in the Hadeed case. It says while ro­bust pub­lic de­bate of ju­di­cial de­ci­sions is le­git­i­mate in a democ­ra­cy, crit­i­cism must re­main re­spect­ful and not de­scend in­to un­found­ed al­le­ga­tions that im­pugn the in­tegri­ty or in­de­pen­dence of the Ju­di­cia­ry.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says sev­en months af­ter be­ing pro­claimed, the home in­va­sion leg­is­la­tion is al­ready hav­ing an im­pact in de­ter­ring vi­o­lent break-ins, cit­ing mul­ti­ple ar­rests, the de­ten­tion of known of­fend­ers and an in­crease in law­ful firearm ap­pli­ca­tions since it came in­to force late last year.