For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a ban on all jet ski ac­tiv­i­ties near the pop­u­lar bathing ar­eas at Pi­geon Point, To­ba­go.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has is­sued a for­mal apol­o­gy fol­low­ing a breach of min­is­te­r­i­al pro­to­col in­volv­ing a so­cial me­dia ad­ver­tise­ment for a promi­nent lo­cal re­tail­er, Pen­ny­wise.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty has not con­firmed whether an emer­gency meet­ing of Heads of Gov­ern­ment, con­vened by Cari­com chair and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Ter­rance Drew, went ahead as sched­uled yes­ter­day, amid an es­ca­lat­ing dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Gov­ern­ment was forced to “eat hum­ble pie” fol­low­ing its de­ci­sion to for­mal­ly recog­nise Del­cy Ro­dríguez as in­ter­im Pres­i­dent of Venezuela.

A small busi­ness own­er from Rio Claro, who was gang raped by fel­low pris­on­ers while on re­mand for a crime he was framed for, has been award­ed a lit­tle over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

The moth­er of a woman who was killed along­side her ten-year-old nephew af­ter a truck crashed in­to their car in Man­zanil­la in 2019, has been award­ed over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

The woman ar­rest­ed for the fa­tal shoot­ing of Steve Ghany Jnr may spend the week­end in prison un­less the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion, Roger Gas­pard, in­structs that she be re­leased based on her claim of self-de­fence.

Op­po­si­tion MP Kei­th Scot­land is rais­ing fresh con­cerns about the coun­try’s es­ca­lat­ing homi­cide rate, warn­ing that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) has failed to curb se­ri­ous crime.

A cur­ry duck com­pe­ti­tion host­ed by the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) at La Ve­ga Es­tate in Gran Cou­va yes­ter­day, did not dis­rupt nor­mal polic­ing op­er­a­tions, of­fi­cials said.

An­oth­er woman has been added to the coun­try’s grow­ing mur­der toll, af­ter an au­top­sy on Wednes­day con­firmed that the body found along the North Coast Road in Mara­cas on April 1 was that of Oni­ka Lo­cario.

A Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der has been is­sued for Ja­hone Rolton Teles­ford, al­so known as “Fri­day,” un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 13-year-old Amiee Soomai.