The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is re­mind­ing its mem­ber states of the im­por­tance of the In­te­grat­ed Vec­tor Man­age­ment ap­proach in ad­dress­ing the resur­gence of the Chikun­gun­ya Virus and oth­er ar­bovi­ral dis­eases such as Dengue and Zi­ka.

Of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion have ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old man fol­low­ing a rob­bery with vi­o­lence in­ci­dent in the San Juan dis­trict yes­ter­day.

There has been an “alarm­ing in­crease” in the num­ber of chil­dren be­ing re­cruit­ed in­to gangs in Haiti with “dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences” for chil­dren, fam­i­lies and so­ci­ety, the Unit­ed Na­tions re­port­ed on Fri­day.

Cul­tur­al icon David Rud­der has re­ceived the Paul Har­ris Fel­low award from the Ro­tary Club of Cen­tral Port of Spain.

The Supreme Court struck down Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s far-reach­ing glob­al tar­iffs on Fri­day, hand­ing him a sig­nif­i­cant loss on an is­sue cru­cial to his eco­nom­ic agen­da.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Thurs­day that he’s di­rect­ing the Pen­ta­gon and oth­er gov­ern­ment agen­cies to iden­ti­fy and re­lease files re­lat­ed to ex­trater­res­tri­als and UFOs be­cause of “tremen­dous in­ter­est.”

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has raised con­cern over se­ri­ous op­er­a­tional chal­lenges af­fect­ing car­go move­ment be­tween Port of Spain and To­ba­go, warn­ing that the con­straints are dis­rupt­ing sup­ply chains and in­creas­ing costs for busi­ness­es.

Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have de­fend­ed the over­all se­cu­ri­ty and fi­nan­cial man­age­ment of Car­ni­val 2026, de­scrib­ing the sea­son as one of the safest in 20 years, de­spite in­ci­dents of vi­o­lence be­ing re­port­ed.

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin yes­ter­day de­clared Car­ni­val 2026 a suc­cess, cit­ing vis­i­tor ar­rivals, job cre­ation and strong at­ten­dance at events.

For­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis is wel­com­ing calls for a probe in­to the in­ci­dent in which his au­dio went dead on TTT while he was per­form­ing at the Ca­lyp­so Monarch Fi­nals at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Sun­day.

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Nicholas Mor­ris has pushed back against mount­ing crit­i­cism fol­low­ing the au­dio dis­rup­tion that af­fect­ed for­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis dur­ing Sun­day’s Di­manche Gras show, de­clar­ing that the gov­ern­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is not afraid of cri­tique.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s con­tin­ued use of a Unit­ed States–sup­plied radar sys­tem in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go, as he al­so brushed aside ques­tions about the pos­si­ble pres­ence of US mil­i­tary per­son­nel and con­cerns over trans­paren­cy and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.