Trinidad and To­ba­go took cen­tre stage at the 2026 Caribbean Mu­sic Awards on Sat­ur­day night, with lo­cal artistes win­ning across mul­ti­ple cat­e­gories as the re­gion­al mu­sic in­dus­try gath­ered at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain.

A 36-year-old St Anns man was shot and killed by gun­men dressed in po­lice tac­ti­cal gear and what ap­peared to be bul­let­proof vests while dri­ving on Sun­day morn­ing.

Of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries in­to the dis­cov­ery of a blue tac­ti­cal jack­et and cap bear­ing the mark­ings 'Po­lice' that were found among oth­er items dur­ing a search in Mara­bel­la on Sat­ur­day evening.

A de­liv­ery­woman was pulled from her car and gagged with scotch tape when she vis­it­ed Brazil Vil­lage to de­liv­er a pack­age on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent where a group of gun­men stormed a Cunu­pia busi­ness place and stole over $47,000 in cash from the own­er on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

The de­com­pos­ing body of 74-year-old Sel­wyn Berkley was found at his home in Brazil Vil­lage just be­fore mid­day on Sat­ur­day, po­lice said.

Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land says he will mo­bilise his con­stituents against the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, as for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi and Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle are ques­tion­ing how much pow­er the Prime Min­is­ter will have un­der the bill.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of seek­ing to make it hard­er for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment to hold po­lit­i­cal meet­ings ahead of next year’s lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tions, warn­ing that the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill could be used against them.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has dou­bled down on the Gov­ern­ment's in­tro­duc­tion of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill as a crime-fight­ing mea­sure, chal­leng­ing crit­ics of the strat­e­gy who have de­scribed it as the first step to­wards a "po­lice state," to con­sid­er the al­ter­na­tive as a "ban­dit state" ruled by vi­o­lent crim­i­nals.

Mere hours af­ter the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, busi­ness groups ap­plaud­ed the leg­is­la­tion, say­ing they won’t knock it be­fore they see its suc­cess.

To­ba­go West MP Joel Samp­son wants the Prime Min­is­ter or rel­e­vant na­tion­al au­thor­i­ty to con­sult To­ba­go’s Chief Sec­re­tary be­fore de­clar­ing any To­ba­go com­mu­ni­ty a closed area or im­pos­ing a cur­few un­der the pro­posed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion.

A for­mer in­sur­ance agent, who cur­rent­ly sits on a State board, has been ac­cused by three in­vestors, who en­trust­ed him with more than $2 mil­lion through Guardian Life of the Caribbean (GLOC) Ltd, of de­fraud­ing them of over $1.5 mil­lion while he was em­ployed by GLOC.