Two teenage boys were among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in Mor­vant on Sun­day af­ter po­lice found two firearms and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a car.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NC­BA) is ex­plor­ing greater cul­tur­al and Car­ni­val col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nige­ria fol­low­ing a meet­ing with Nige­ria’s High Com­mis­sion­er to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Jer­ry­mon Samuel Man­we.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and oth­er stake­hold­ers are co­or­di­nat­ing a re­sponse to se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns at San Juan North Sec­ondary School fol­low­ing the rob­bery of a teacher on the school com­pound.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard in­ter­cept­ed a pirogue car­ry­ing four men and a quan­ti­ty of pack­ages sus­pect­ed to con­tain nar­cotics in the north­ern Gulf of Paria on Mon­day.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 pounds of waste were re­moved from the Port of Spain fore­shore dur­ing this year’s In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Cleanup (ICC) on Sat­ur­day.

The Sen­ate has ap­proved two amend­ments to the Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, Paria Fu­el Trad­ing and Guaracara Re­fin­ing Vest­ing Amend­ment Bill 2026, paving the way for the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) to be deemed the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union for work­ers at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing for both ex­ist­ing col­lec­tive agree­ments and fu­ture col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing.

Guyana po­lice Mon­day said they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of 72.1 pounds of co­caine, which was found last Fri­day, dur­ing an op­er­a­tion along the Five Miles-Itu­ni Trail, Up­per De­mer­ara Riv­er.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says its mem­bers will re­ceive out­stand­ing pay­ments from the gov­ern­ment in Sep­tem­ber for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali says Guyana re­mains con­fi­dent that the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ) will rule in its favour in the decades old bor­der dis­pute with Venezuela.

New warn­ings from with­in the ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in­dus­try have re­vived a long-run­ning de­bate over whether ad­vanced AI could es­cape hu­man con­trol and ul­ti­mate­ly threat­en hu­man­i­ty’s sur­vival, and whether the com­pa­nies de­vel­op­ing the tech­nol­o­gy are do­ing enough to pre­vent such a sce­nario.

At­tor­ney Nafeesa Mo­hammed is ap­peal­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to use her up­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tions vis­it to speak with Syr­i­an lead­ers and oth­er au­thor­i­ties to help repa­tri­ate the 97 T&T women and chil­dren who have been in Mid­dle East­ern refugee camps since 2019.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­tained its Tier 2 rank­ing in the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of State’s An­nu­al Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Re­port, even as the coun­try’s lat­est na­tion­al re­port re­veals that 30 vic­tims of hu­man traf­fick­ing were iden­ti­fied in 2025, all fe­male and sub­ject­ed to sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion.