Po­lice are seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 15-year-old Makalon Castil­lo, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs and Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­clare a State of Emer­gency (SoE), ac­cus­ing the Op­po­si­tion of politi­cis­ing a mat­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty while re­it­er­at­ing that the mea­sure was nec­es­sary to ad­dress cred­i­ble crim­i­nal threats.

Po­lice seized two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing ex­er­cis­es in the Cen­tral and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions with­in the past 72 hours.

A for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer who was dis­missed for forc­ing a cou­ple to have sex in his pres­ence has lost his fi­nal ap­peal at the Privy Coun­cil, as he chal­lenged the de­nial of his pen­sion and gra­tu­ity.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Al­liance of Mu­se­ums (TTAM) was for­mal­ly es­tab­lished on Tues­day at its First An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing in Port of Spain.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Cli­mate Change Cen­tre host­ed a project re­view meet­ing in Be­lize with the Green Cli­mate Fund and stake­hold­ers of the BAC-SuF Project.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has re­spond­ed to the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Pub­lic Emer­gency by the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing an es­ca­la­tion in vi­o­lent crime.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has sup­port­ed the de­ci­sion by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to de­clare a State of Emer­gency in re­sponse to or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

As an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE) takes hold, the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has raised red flags over sev­er­al sec­tions of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions (EPR) 2026, warn­ing that the State is now polic­ing both the pub­lic’s free­dom of move­ment and ex­pres­sion un­der the guise of safe­ty.

As cit­i­zens once again face the sus­pen­sion of cer­tain con­sti­tu­tion­al rights, an un­apolo­getic Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made it clear she will con­tin­ue to use States of Emer­gency as a crime-fight­ing tool, in­sist­ing she would rather act de­ci­sive­ly to pro­tect lives than stand by as crim­i­nals ter­rorise the pop­u­la­tion.

In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors are sharply di­vid­ed over the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to im­pose a sec­ond State of Emer­gency (SoE) just 10 months in­to of­fice, deep­en­ing de­bate over crime pol­i­cy and con­sti­tu­tion­al lim­its.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is again un­der a State of Emer­gency, with the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, Le­gal No­tice No. 40 of 2026, now in force.