Pow­er banks have be­come a must-have trav­el ac­ces­so­ry as pas­sen­gers seek to re­main con­nect­ed. How­ev­er, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is set to roll out a new pol­i­cy lim­it­ing their use in the cab­in in the com­ing weeks.

The po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­cov­ery of a cache of miss­ing firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, on the night po­lice cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley was al­so mur­dered, has now widened to in­clude the dis­cov­ery of yet an­oth­er set of miss­ing guns – this time, from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion com­pound.

A 33-year-old man from Bar­rack­pore has been sen­tenced to hang for the bru­tal mur­ders of his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the “love and loy­al­ty” of sup­port­ers have sus­tained her lead­er­ship of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, as she marked the par­ty’s 37th an­niver­sary with a mes­sage of grat­i­tude, re­flec­tion and re­newed com­mit­ment.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert, Pro­fes­sor Andy Knight, is warn­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar may be “hurt­ing” Trinidad and To­ba­go’s long-term diplo­mat­ic in­ter­ests by align­ing too close­ly with Don­ald Trump, as he cau­tioned that the US leader could soon be­come a “lame duck” pres­i­dent.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is set­ting its sights on the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions, and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing cit­i­zens to pre­pare for the polls sched­uled for lat­er this year, as she gave Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a low per­for­mance rat­ing in her first year in Gov­ern­ment.

For the sec­ond time this month, a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee was abrupt­ly sus­pend­ed, with Guardian Me­dia un­der­stand­ing the is­sue was the pres­ence of em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez and her gov­ern­ment has again made it clear that the will con­tin­ue to de­fend its claim to own­er­ship of the dis­put­ed Es­se­qui­bo re­gion in Guyana.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that com­pre­hen­sive se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments are in place for the Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions this week­end.

The Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s lat­est re­port has high­light­ed the State’s con­tin­ued re­liance on con­tract and short-term em­ploy­ment along­side short­com­ings in pol­i­cy and com­pli­ance, point­ing out that Gov­ern­ment spent more than $1.79 bil­lion on tem­po­rary staffing arrange­ments across the pub­lic ser­vice in 2025.

The Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) has been blocked from mak­ing good on its threat to evict a group of ven­dors from the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) at the end of this month.

Dis­rup­tions were re­port­ed at sev­er­al pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties on the first day of “to­tal nurs­ing” in­dus­tri­al ac­tion, in­clud­ing at the Barataria Health Cen­tre and the tem­po­rary scal­ing down of ser­vices at the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of the Mt Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal.