Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to T&T, Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero, is dis­miss­ing re­ports that a re­cent US mil­i­tary airstrike near Venezue­lan wa­ters killed sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers, de­scrib­ing the in­ci­dent as pos­si­bly fic­ti­tious.

A nine-year-old boy has been left trau­ma­tised, af­ter he was as­sault­ed and robbed of his cell­phone in a play park at­tack in San Fer­nan­do. The play­park is sit­u­at­ed at the back of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s Ol­era Heights apart­ment build­ings.

The 50 schools iden­ti­fied by po­lice and the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry for de­ploy­ment of the School Ori­ent­ed Po­lice Unit (SOPU) are not fi­nal, DCP Ju­nior Ben­jamin, head of the unit, has said.

Prison Of­fi­cers' As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don has ex­pressed sup­port for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to de­port 200 Venezue­lans cur­rent­ly held in lo­cal pris­ons, not­ing that the move could ease strain on cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO), Ains­ley King, has dis­missed con­cerns raised by two mem­bers as part of a smear cam­paign ahead of next year’s elec­tions.

Of­fi­cers said ba­by Fabion Mai­son was brought to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal by his dis­traught par­ents, un­re­spon­sive on Mon­day night. Sev­er­al at­tempts by med­ical per­son­nel to re­sus­ci­tate him were fu­tile.

A sec­ondary school teacher has filed a law­suit against the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) af­ter be­ing by­passed for pro­mo­tion.

The pres­i­dent of the Par­ent-Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (PTA) at Boissiere RC Pri­ma­ry School says she is fed up with the re­peat­ed ex­cus­es from au­thor­i­ties over per­sis­tent flood­ing that is dis­rupt­ing class­es.

Near­ly four hours of in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall over north-west­ern Trinidad caused flash flood­ing in sev­er­al ar­eas around the cap­i­tal.

De­throned Miss Grand T&T 2025 Tama­ra Per­sad is re­ject­ing claims by Stolen Pro­duc­tions Ltd, the fran­chise hold­er for Miss Grand In­ter­na­tion­al, that she could not ful­fil her du­ties.

Po­lice are search­ing for a man who broke in­to a poul­try de­pot in Ari­ma on Tues­day evening but fled the scene, leav­ing be­hind his wal­let and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card.

US con­ser­v­a­tive ac­tivist Char­lie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the con­ser­v­a­tive youth or­ga­ni­za­tion Turn­ing Point USA, has died af­ter be­ing shot Wednes­day at an event at Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­si­ty, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said in a Truth So­cial post.