Of the 17 de­por­tees who ar­rived in Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day, 15 were al­lowed to go free, while two were tak­en in­to cus­tody.

De­spite not be­ing ap­point­ed to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s new Cab­i­net or the Sen­ate, for­mer Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al says she re­mains ful­ly com­mit­ted to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe says the shar­ing of re­spon­si­bil­i­ties for the prison sys­tem be­tween Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der and Min­is­ter of Jus­tice De­vesh Ma­haraj will bode well for the ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Prakash Ra­mad­har says he will break his si­lence ear­ly this week on not be­ing ap­point­ed to ei­ther a min­is­te­r­i­al po­si­tion or a Sen­ate seat in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion.

For­mer health min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has warned of a cam­paign of “purges” with­in the pub­lic ser­vice, fol­low­ing re­ports that Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram was sent on leave un­der con­tro­ver­sial cir­cum­stances.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal says he plans to hold talks with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) on key en­er­gy mat­ters—among them, the long-de­layed re­moval of hy­dro­car­bon waste still stored at the Stud­ley Park dump.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries now of­fi­cial­ly holds re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for three of the coun­try's key state en­er­gy com­pa­nies: Trinidad Pe­tro­le­um Hold­ings Lim­it­ed, Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed. It fol­lows a gazette no­tice is­sued on Fri­day, May 23.

Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go 2025, An­na-Lise Nan­ton, has writ­ten an open let­ter to her coun­try while vis­it­ing Telan­gana, In­dia, re­flect­ing on the cul­tur­al con­nec­tions, shared val­ues, and her ex­pe­ri­ences abroad.

Rus­sia and Ukraine ex­changed hun­dreds more pris­on­ers Sat­ur­day as part of a ma­jor swap that amount­ed to a rare mo­ment of co­op­er­a­tion in oth­er­wise failed ef­forts to reach a cease­fire. The ex­change came hours af­ter Kyiv came un­der a large-scale Russ­ian drone and mis­sile at­tack that left at least 15 peo­ple in­jured.

A 34-year-old po­lice of­fi­cer at­tached to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion was ar­rest­ed af­ter a stolen bul­let­proof vest was re­cov­ered dur­ing a search at his San­gre Grande home on Fri­day.

The De­part­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) says a man from the state of Col­orado. was sen­tenced on Fri­day to 210 years in prison for sex­u­al­ly abus­ing sev­er­al chil­dren at the or­phan­age he found­ed and di­rect­ed in Haiti.

The founder of cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty ad­vo­ca­cy group Cy­ber­SafeTT has sup­port­ed Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s call for ur­gent AI leg­is­la­tion.