Still in shock over his bru­tal mur­der, a rel­a­tive of Amar Rooplal said she was first alert­ed through so­cial me­dia that a body with Amar tat­tooed on the fin­gers had been found in Ste Madeleine.

Two years af­ter the small and unas­sum­ing area shot in­to the lime­light fol­low­ing a spate of gang-re­lat­ed killings that claimed sev­en lives, res­i­dents are once more re­laxed enough to ven­ture out of their homes and even in­ter­act open­ly with the po­lice.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­vealed a sig­nif­i­cant short­fall in man­pow­er with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice, cit­ing a cur­rent short­age of 420 fire of­fi­cers across the coun­try.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr. Roodal Mooni­lal has an­nounced that he will lead a small, high-lev­el del­e­ga­tion to Wash­ing­ton D.C. from No­vem­ber 28 to 30 for a se­ries of strate­gic meet­ings aimed at deep­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy ties with the Unit­ed States.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that all Bus Route pass­es cur­rent­ly in cir­cu­la­tion — to­talling more than 625 — will be of­fi­cial­ly re­called by Ju­ly 1, 2025.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has fore­cast near-nor­mal rain­fall for the 2025 Wet Sea­son, with con­di­tions ex­pect­ed to be “wet as usu­al.”

Of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit (WDG­IU) seized 1,000 rounds of 9-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion, and ar­rest­ed one sus­pect, dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Port of Spain on Wednes­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) has an­nounced its new head­quar­ters, which is lo­cat­ed at 14 Robin­sonville, Bel­mont.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says it stands ready to sup­port cit­i­zens who are con­sid­er­ing ob­tain­ing firearm users li­cences (FULs).

For the month of April, the in­fla­tion rate was 1.5 per­cent—a slight in­crease from the 1 per­cent fig­ure re­port­ed in March by the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO).

Caribbean Air­lines has warned pas­sen­gers to ex­pect de­lays on some of its jet ser­vices to­day due to a re­gion­al satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions out­age af­fect­ing the SI­TA sys­tem.

The lo­cal chef and own­er of the fu­sion busi­ness Cousoumeh is al­so a se­mi-fi­nal­ist in the Fa­vorite Chef Com­pe­ti­tion 2025. Should Burke go on to win, she would be the first Trinida­di­an na­tion­al to take the ti­tle.