Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Selvon Ramjit of Erin Road, Quar­ry Vil­lage. He had gone to the beach with rel­a­tives and en­tered the wa­ter at about 3:30 pm.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has com­plet­ed works to re­place 70 me­tres of sew­er pipeline along Sut­ton Street, be­tween Prince of Wales and Prince Al­bert Streets in San Fer­nan­do.

Two peo­ple have now been charged in con­nec­tion with a pay­roll fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion at the Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion.

Caribbean Air­lines em­ploy­ees have do­nat­ed near­ly 7,000 items through the air­line’s 2025 Sta­tionery Dri­ve, sup­port­ing chil­dren’s homes and non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Four sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of co­caine seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed over the week­end in the South­ern, South West­ern, and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions.

Van­dals stole elec­tri­cal ca­bles and con­trol equip­ment from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty’s (WASA) Scott’s Road Well #1 over the week­end, cut­ting wa­ter sup­ply to thou­sands of cus­tomers in south Trinidad.

One man was killed while three oth­ers were tak­en in­to cus­tody be­tween Sat­ur­day night and mid­day yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful res­cue of kid­napped Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath is as­sur­ing that the armed of­fi­cers who will be de­ployed in 50 high-risk sec­ondary schools from to­day will not be pa­trolling the com­pounds and will stay out of the way of staff and stu­dents un­less they are called to ac­tion.

Cari­com and For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ters who have sought a meet­ing with the Unit­ed States on its mil­i­tary de­ploy­ment in the re­gion are await­ing a re­ply and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s strong stance on the US pres­ence has been slammed by Ja­maica’s Glean­er news­pa­per in an ed­i­to­r­i­al.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s po­si­tion on the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary pres­ence and sup­port for the US to “kill them all (drug traf­fick­ers) vi­o­lent­ly” was panned by Ja­maica’s Glean­er news­pa­per yes­ter­day, head­lined “Re­ject Trump’s ap­proach.”

While Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was not among the Caribbean lead­ers who at­tend­ed the sec­ond Africa-Cari­com Sum­mit in Ethiopia, Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers has as­sured that T&T is prop­er­ly rep­re­sent­ed.

The re­gions of Africa and the Caribbean must no longer stand apart but unite against the lega­cy of in­equities and fur­ther de­sign in­sti­tu­tions that fos­ter in­te­gra­tion, re­silience, and pros­per­i­ty, says An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne.