Less than 24 hours af­ter Star Sab­ga was re­leased from house ar­rest un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) im­posed dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and oth­er Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­mains ac­tive.

Se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials say they were giv­en in­struc­tions to re­lease a to­tal of 563 State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­tainees from prison fa­cil­i­ties in east Trinidad over a phased six-day pe­ri­od, with the cur­rent SoE due to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17.

Five days be­fore the State of Emer­gency (SoE) is due to ex­pire, the Gov­ern­ment was still not say­ing whether it will seek an­oth­er ex­ten­sion, even as Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der main­tains that threats against Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­main.

A man iden­ti­fied as Dy­lan Mad­hoo of San­ta Rosa Heights, Ari­ma, was am­bushed and shot dead while in a ve­hi­cle in Mal­abar yes­ter­day evening.

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Dar­rel Al­la­har says the fi­nan­cial sur­vival of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s me­dia hous­es is not the Gov­ern­ment’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, as he de­fend­ed pro­posed changes that would al­low pub­lic au­thor­i­ties to pub­lish an­nu­al state­ments on­line in­stead of in news­pa­pers.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is back­ing teach­ers at San Juan North Sec­ondary who left the school ear­ly yes­ter­day and will not re­turn un­til oc­cu­pa­tion­al safe­ty and health per­son­nel as­sess the com­pound.

A 67-year-old woman from Diego Mar­tin has been ac­quit­ted of stab­bing a 17-year-old school­girl in her eye with a pen­cil af­ter in­ter­ven­ing in a fight be­tween the al­leged vic­tim and her daugh­ter al­most 15 years ago. 

Laven­tille East/Mor­vant MP Chris­t­ian Birch­wood is rais­ing con­cern over a surge in vi­o­lence in his con­stituen­cy af­ter four peo­ple were killed in Mor­vant with­in 48 hours.

For To­ba­go’s small en­tre­pre­neurs, find­ing a space to show­case and sell their prod­ucts can be just as im­por­tant as pro­duc­ing them.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s warmer tone to­wards Venezuela is dri­ven by Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ter­est in the coun­try’s en­er­gy re­sources.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is de­fend­ing her cor­dial in­ter­ac­tion with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar af­ter the two were seen hold­ing hands at the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the 2026-2027 law term on Wednes­day.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go joins the world in mark­ing 25 years since the Sep­tem­ber 11 ter­ror­ist at­tacks in the Unit­ed States, a lead­ing lo­cal Mus­lim or­gan­i­sa­tion is re­new­ing its call for the Gov­ern­ment to re­verse its des­ig­na­tion of Hamas, Hezbol­lah and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.