Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of a man ear­ly yes­ter­day dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer in Siparia.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Pres­i­dent, Fe­l­isha Thomas, has ex­pressed her “an­noy­ance” over what she de­scribed as the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s de­lay in com­ing to the bar­gain­ing ta­ble to ho­n­our the Gov­ern­ment’s promised ten per cent salary in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­scrib­ing Sun­day’s vig­il for peace, which the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) pub­licly sup­port­ed, as a “dis­mal fail­ure.”

The US mil­i­tary car­ried out yet an­oth­er strike against sus­pect­ed drug boats on Sun­day, killing six peo­ple in the East­ern Pa­cif­ic, ac­cord­ing to Sec­re­tary of De­fence Pe­te Hegseth.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (TRHA) mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar am­bu­lance pur­chase, fol­low­ing a for­mal com­plaint by Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris.

Dar­ren Mitchell, the lawyer rep­re­sent­ing de­tainees at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre, is warn­ing the pub­lic that more “in­no­cent” peo­ple will be locked up if the State of Emer­gency con­tin­ues.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to con­struct a wa­ter­front ho­tel, con­fer­ence cen­tre, and ocean­front res­i­dences in San Fer­nan­do.

Af­ter years of pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens, a re­tired po­lice con­sta­ble is now re­cov­er­ing from a bat­tle that near­ly cost him his life—an at­tack by a pit­bull out­side his Clax­ton Bay home.

Po­lice in To­ba­go say more ar­rests are like­ly as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to a se­ries of vi­o­lent in­ci­dents in­volv­ing stu­dents on the is­land.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA), Nigel Tenia, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to grant an im­me­di­ate mora­to­ri­um on sand and grav­el op­er­a­tions, as the sec­tor has been op­er­at­ing with­out for­mal li­cences for more than two decades.

Po­lice are set to charge two stu­dents, ages 13 and 15, who were seen phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing an­oth­er stu­dent on a stair­case at the Siparia East Sec­ondary School.

The Privy Coun­cil will have the fi­nal say over a med­ical neg­li­gence law­suit brought by the moth­er of a 23-year-old man with cere­bral pal­sy against the pri­vate clin­ic he was de­liv­ered at and her at­tend­ing ob­ste­tri­cian.