Two hun­dred com­mu­ni­ty vol­un­teers grad­u­at­ed from the 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Re­sponse Team (CERT) train­ing pro­gramme to­day, as the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (MoRDLG) strength­ened ef­forts to build dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness and re­silience across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A 63-year-old man has been kid­napped, and a ran­som de­mand of $100,000 has been made for his safe re­turn.

A 30-year-old woman was shot four times in the back and died on ar­rival at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex last night.

A 24-year-old woman was raped by her ex-boyfriend on Fri­day morn­ing af­ter he threat­ened to harm her fa­ther.

Moru­ga/Table­land MP Michelle Ben­jamin is mourn­ing the death of her un­cle, Mar­vin Hamil­ton, who was mur­dered in what she de­scribed as a “sense­less act of vi­o­lence”.

Fresh Start Ltd and ASA En­ter­pris­es have been spot­light­ed for their in­no­va­tion and ex­port prowess, re­ceiv­ing top ho­n­ours at the pres­i­dent’s din­ner and awards host­ed by the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA), which took place at the Hy­att Re­gency last Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­go­ing blood short­age cri­sis has once again ex­posed crit­i­cal gaps in the pub­lic health­care sys­tem.

Res­i­dents of Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) apart­ments along Nel­son and George Streets in Port-of-Spain say the lack of gov­ern­ment sup­port to re­pair their units has left them doubt­ful about who will tru­ly ben­e­fit from up­com­ing re­gen­er­a­tion plans.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo yes­ter­day ad­vised par­tic­i­pants in the 25th Mock UN Gen­er­al Coun­cil meet­ing that while peace­ful res­o­lu­tions are im­por­tant, im­ple­ment­ing them in to­day’s di­vi­sive cli­mate will be chal­leng­ing.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured that staff short­ages at the na­tion’s Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties (RHAs) will soon be ad­dressed.

“God, why didn’t you take me? Why you take my child? Life is so un­fair some­times,” cried Win­ston Williams as he mourned his son, Arvin, who died in­stant­ly af­ter his ve­hi­cle plunged in­to the Cipero Riv­er yes­ter­day morn­ing.

De­spite the on­go­ing state of emer­gency, which has con­tributed to a de­cline in mur­ders, gun vi­o­lence claimed three lives in south Trinidad.