Trinida­di­ans Oren Gor­don and Sariyah Mo­hammed re­turned from Cu­ba with first­hand ac­counts of an is­land grap­pling with wa­ter ra­tioning, pro­longed black­outs, fu­el short­ages, poor garbage col­lec­tion and short­ages of food and med­ical sup­plies.

Se­cu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties at San Juan North Sec­ondary School had been iden­ti­fied and re­port­ed be­fore an unau­tho­rised per­son en­tered the com­pound and robbed a mem­ber of staff last Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA).

Joel Charles, 27, of Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, was killed and an­oth­er man was wound­ed in a shoot­ing along Or­ange Field Road, Cara­pichaima, ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

Two teenage boys were among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in Mor­vant on Sun­day af­ter po­lice found two firearms and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a car.

Two women were robbed at gun­point af­ter leav­ing a restau­rant at At­lantic Plaza, Cou­va, on Sat­ur­day night.

Three men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Las Lo­mas.

Two teenage boys were among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in Mor­vant on Sun­day af­ter po­lice found two firearms and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a car.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NC­BA) is ex­plor­ing greater cul­tur­al and Car­ni­val col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nige­ria fol­low­ing a meet­ing with Nige­ria’s High Com­mis­sion­er to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Jer­ry­mon Samuel Man­we.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and oth­er stake­hold­ers are co­or­di­nat­ing a re­sponse to se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns at San Juan North Sec­ondary School fol­low­ing the rob­bery of a teacher on the school com­pound.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard in­ter­cept­ed a pirogue car­ry­ing four men and a quan­ti­ty of pack­ages sus­pect­ed to con­tain nar­cotics in the north­ern Gulf of Paria on Mon­day.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 pounds of waste were re­moved from the Port of Spain fore­shore dur­ing this year’s In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Cleanup (ICC) on Sat­ur­day.

The Sen­ate has ap­proved two amend­ments to the Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, Paria Fu­el Trad­ing and Guaracara Re­fin­ing Vest­ing Amend­ment Bill 2026, paving the way for the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) to be deemed the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union for work­ers at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing for both ex­ist­ing col­lec­tive agree­ments and fu­ture col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing.