The search for two men who opened fire on po­lice of­fi­cers in Tu­na­puna on Mon­day night end­ed yes­ter­day af­ter they vol­un­tar­i­ly sur­ren­dered to au­thor­i­ties.

A St Joseph man was killed on Mon­day in what po­lice are de­scrib­ing as a re­venge at­tack fol­low­ing a day of gun-fu­elled ex­changes.

Through her grief, the moth­er of 45-year-old mur­der vic­tim Ash­ton Welles yes­ter­day ap­pealed to those in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty to change their lives.

Record­ing an al­ter­ca­tion on his cell­phone may have led to the fa­tal stab­bing of a 28-year-old labour­er in Long­denville on Mon­day, po­lice said.

Heart­bro­ken rel­a­tives of 17-year-old school­boy Gabriel Nel­son found clo­sure yes­ter­day af­ter his body was re­cov­ered, two days af­ter he drowned at Grand La­goon, Ma­yaro.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a Form Three stu­dent was robbed and as­sault­ed in­side her class­room at Ste Madeleine Sec­ondary School on Mon­day.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­ate Leader Dar­rell Al­la­har has ex­pressed con­cern over the fail­ure of pub­lic ser­vice com­mis­sions, cit­ing par­ti­san­ship and pol­i­tics “mas­querad­ing un­der the cloak of in­de­pen­dence” and warn­ing of a “deep state PNM thing” at play.

Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) scored 41 out of 100 in the 2025 Cor­rup­tion Per­cep­tions In­dex (CPI), rank­ing 81st out of 182 coun­tries. The coun­try’s score has re­mained stag­nant at 41 or 42 over the past five years.

The body of 17-year-old school­boy Gabriel Nel­son was found in the wa­ters off Ma­yaro on Tues­day af­ter­noon, bring­ing an end to an in­tense search in­volv­ing po­lice, res­cue teams, vil­lagers and fish­er­folk.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent on Mon­day af­ter­noon, a 49-year-old taxi dri­ver was stabbed and robbed af­ter pick­ing up four pas­sen­gers in Pe­nal.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve an al­ter­ca­tion led to the fa­tal stab­bing of 28-year-old labour­er Kyle Ed­mund in Long­denville on Mon­day.

Pan El­ders Steel Or­ches­tra se­cured a sev­enth Medi­um Band Fi­nals ti­tle ear­ly Tues­day morn­ing, edg­ing past Courts Sound Spe­cial­ists of Laven­tille in a tight­ly con­test­ed show­down.