Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar held bi­lat­er­al talks with Saint Lu­cia’s Prime Min­is­ter Philip J. Pierre on Thurs­day, in a meet­ing which comes amid on­go­ing scruti­ny over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The first di­rect com­mer­cial flight be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela ar­rived Thurs­day in the cap­i­tal of the South Amer­i­can coun­try, sev­en years af­ter the U.S. Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty De­part­ment or­dered an in­def­i­nite sus­pen­sion, cit­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

A man from Pe­nal has been sen­tenced to 10 years in prison for chop­ping his broth­er to death af­ter he (the broth­er) re­peat­ed­ly as­sault­ed their 71-year-old moth­er.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has fall­en 13 places in the 2026 World Press Free­dom In­dex re­leased to­day by Re­porters With­out Bor­ders, de­spite main­tain­ing what the re­port de­scribes as a “good record” and a “vi­brant me­dia land­scape.”

Pow­er banks have be­come a must-have trav­el ac­ces­so­ry as pas­sen­gers seek to re­main con­nect­ed. How­ev­er, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is set to roll out a new pol­i­cy lim­it­ing their use in the cab­in in the com­ing weeks.

The po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­cov­ery of a cache of miss­ing firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, on the night po­lice cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley was al­so mur­dered, has now widened to in­clude the dis­cov­ery of yet an­oth­er set of miss­ing guns – this time, from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion com­pound.

A 33-year-old man from Bar­rack­pore has been sen­tenced to hang for the bru­tal mur­ders of his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the “love and loy­al­ty” of sup­port­ers have sus­tained her lead­er­ship of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, as she marked the par­ty’s 37th an­niver­sary with a mes­sage of grat­i­tude, re­flec­tion and re­newed com­mit­ment.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is set­ting its sights on the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions, and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing cit­i­zens to pre­pare for the polls sched­uled for lat­er this year, as she gave Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a low per­for­mance rat­ing in her first year in Gov­ern­ment.

For yet an­oth­er Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) event, for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley was a no-show.

For the sec­ond time this month, a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee was abrupt­ly sus­pend­ed, with Guardian Me­dia un­der­stand­ing the is­sue was the pres­ence of em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez and her gov­ern­ment has again made it clear that the will con­tin­ue to de­fend its claim to own­er­ship of the dis­put­ed Es­se­qui­bo re­gion in Guyana.