Pupils of the San­gre Grande Gov­ern­ment EC­CE Cen­tre read Dr. Seuss’ There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our So­lar Sys­tem aloud with Po­lice Con­sta­ble Dar­i­on Thomas for this years Read Aloud Day.

The Ro­man Catholic Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go is pi­lot­ing dig­i­tal of­fer­ings across six church­es. Ac­cord­ing to The Catholic News, “This ini­tia­tive forms part of the arch­dio­cese’s on­go­ing ef­forts to make stew­ard­ship safer, eas­i­er, and more ac­ces­si­ble while sup­port­ing parish­es in their pas­toral and ad­min­is­tra­tive work.”

The CARI­COM Em­i­nent Per­sons Group, made up of for­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Ken­ny An­tho­ny, Bruce Gold­ing and Per­ry Christie, at­tend­ed an Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States con­sul­ta­tive meet­ing on Haiti on Feb­ru­ary 2, 2026, in Wash­ing­ton, DC.

The Unit­ed States says it has not re­cent­ly held dis­cus­sions with Saint Lu­cia on in­ter­na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion, in­clud­ing arrange­ments in­volv­ing Cu­ba.

Lib­er­ty Caribbean CEO Inge Smidts de­liv­ered a force­ful mes­sage at CAN­TO Con­nect 2026 this week, that the Caribbean must move be­yond lay­ing ca­bles and build­ing tow­ers, and start us­ing its dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture to gen­er­ate jobs, ser­vices, and in­no­va­tion that can com­pete glob­al­ly.

Ri­val­do Lon­don has been crowned the 2026 Young Kings Ca­lyp­so Monarch. On Tues­day, 16 fi­nal­ists com­pet­ed in the event, host­ed by the Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

In the first in­ci­dent, around 8:45 pm yes­ter­day, a man iden­ti­fied on­ly by his alias “Pimpin” was shot mul­ti­ple times at Spar­row Dri­ve, Pe­tit Val­ley.

A 49-year-old man has been sen­tenced to six months’ im­pris­on­ment for the theft of let­tuce from an Aranguez farmer.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day de­fend­ed a new Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) pol­i­cy, which has in­tro­duced a five per cent fee on the trans­fer of prop­er­ties with­in fam­i­lies and a ten per cent fee on trans­ac­tions in­volv­ing the sale of its prop­er­ties.

The Trans­port Min­istry is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the in­creas­ing use of mo­bile and wind­screen-mount­ed de­vices for video calls, record­ing and live stream­ing while dri­ving to de­ter­mine whether ad­di­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry pro­vi­sions are need­ed, says Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our.

A dou­ble de­feat in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day as Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark shut down both at­tempts by the Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent bench­es to probe ac­cu­sa­tions made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The Gov­ern­ment is as­sur­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived no di­rec­tive from the Unit­ed States to halt the long-stand­ing prac­tice of send­ing na­tion­als to Cu­ba to study med­i­cine.