The To­ba­go Fes­ti­vals Com­mis­sion has re­ject­ed claims that a pri­vate pro­mot­er is ben­e­fit­ting from the $9.3 mil­lion To­ba­go Rhythm & Soul Fes­ti­val, call­ing them “in­ac­cu­rate.”

The White House claimed vic­to­ry in a show­down with Colom­bia over ac­cept­ing flights of de­port­ed mi­grants from the U.S. on Sun­day, hours af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump threat­ened steep tar­iffs on im­ports and oth­er sanc­tions on the long­time U.S. part­ner.

Two sus­pects are ex­pect­ed to be de­tained for ques­tion­ing in con­nec­tion with an al­leged rape of a 34-year-old woman on Fri­day.

Ini­tial re­ports are that 65-year-old re­tiree, Michael Ram, shot his wife Suni­ta, 56, and then turned the weapon on him­self at their Pi­paro Junc­tion, Hard­bar­gain, Williamsville home.

A 19-year-old man who got in­to dif­fi­cul­ty while swim­ming at a beach in Pa­lo Seco on Sun­day is feared drowned.

The Do­mini­ca Air and Sea Ports Au­thor­i­ty (DAS­PA) Mon­day said res­cue ef­forts were “in progress" for a miss­ing plane that left the Dou­glas Charles Air­port on Sun­day af­ter­noon on route to the neigh­bour­ing French is­land of Mar­tinique.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard lost a mys­tery pirogue con­tain­ing the de­com­pos­ing bod­ies of five uniden­ti­fied in­di­vid­u­als dur­ing a re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has sharply crit­i­cised the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s ap­proach to polic­ing.

A dar­ing rob­bery by a man dressed in full army cam­ou­flage gear at Kadd’s Su­per­mar­ket in Low­lands, To­ba­go, left a po­lice of­fi­cer in­jured and the armed sus­pect on the run on Sat­ur­day evening.

As the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) pre­pares for its spe­cial as­sem­bly on March 15 to dis­cuss the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s lead­er­ship, found­ing mem­ber Wen­dell Ever­s­ley is call­ing on in­ter­im po­lit­i­cal leader Prakash Ra­mad­har to clar­i­fy whether he has been hav­ing se­cret meet­ings with Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer is sup­port­ing Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to pub­licly re­lease the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) cy­ber breach re­port.

A night of steel­pan mas­tery end­ed in a tie as To­ba­go’s T&TEC New East Side Di­men­sion and Gold­en Hands both earned 279 points to share the cham­pi­onship ti­tle at the 2025 Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Con­ven­tion­al Fi­nals at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day.