For­mer UNC min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s con­tin­ued use of the phrase “stink­ing c***ie”, de­scrib­ing it as “con­duct un­be­com­ing” of the of­fice she holds.

A sec­ondary school teacher ac­cused of sex­u­al mis­con­duct in­volv­ing a Form Two stu­dent has lost his ap­peal against a judge’s re­fusal to or­der the dis­clo­sure of the iden­ti­ty of the per­son who re­port­ed him.

A 40-year-old St Au­gus­tine man has been sen­tenced to 16 years and nine months in prison af­ter ad­mit­ting to his role in the 2017 killing of a Tacarigua busi­ness­man dur­ing a botched rob­bery.

An in­sur­ance com­pa­ny has failed in its ap­peal chal­leng­ing a judge's de­ci­sion to grant a de­fault judg­ment against the di­rec­tors of one of its agen­cies for al­leged­ly fail­ing to re­mit al­most $1.4 mil­lion in in­sur­ance pre­mi­ums it col­lect­ed.

Not every­one hop­ing to join the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is un­em­ployed. Some al­ready have jobs.

The Ja­maican High Com­mis­sion com­mem­o­rat­ed 188 years of “Emancipen­dence” with a thanks­giv­ing ser­vice at the Parish of the As­sump­tion Ro­man Catholic Church in Mar­aval last Sun­day, ahead of Ja­maica’s In­de­pen­dence Day, which is cel­e­brat­ed an­nu­al­ly on Au­gust 6.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) is urg­ing cau­tion over Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s pro­pos­al to use con­vict­ed in­mates sen­tenced to hard labour to as­sist with pub­lic space main­te­nance un­der the Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS), say­ing the move must be sup­port­ed by prop­er se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures, staffing and re­sources be­fore it is im­ple­ment­ed.

Do­mini­can politi­cian Lennox Lin­ton has won a ma­jor con­sti­tu­tion­al case chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion by that coun­try’s pres­i­dent to leave the po­si­tion of Op­po­si­tion Leader va­cant for al­most 18 months.

Po­lice seized a firearm, two rounds of .45-cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion and ap­prox­i­mate­ly 500 grammes of cannabis dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Va­len­cia on Mon­day night.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion PNM of stand­ing in the way of ef­forts to dis­man­tle the coun­try’s drug trade, claim­ing the par­ty’s re­sis­tance to 30 pro­posed joint po­lice and army posts is pro­tect­ing what she de­scribed as its “lo­cal drug mafia friends.”

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment plans to tap what he de­scribed as "the largest labour force in the na­tion" by de­ploy­ing prison in­mates sen­tenced to hard labour to help main­tain pub­lic spaces while the re­place­ment for CEPEP is rolled out.

Plan­ning Min­is­ter Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh says the near­ly 6,000 jobs lost dur­ing the first three months of 2026 should not be viewed in iso­la­tion, ar­gu­ing that the de­cline re­flects a re­cur­ring post-Christ­mas em­ploy­ment pat­tern and does not, by it­self, sig­nal a weak­en­ing labour mar­ket.