Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo says he in­tends to press ahead with plans to host a J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tion and cul­tur­al ex­trav­a­gan­za for the bor­ough’s an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions in June, de­spite op­po­si­tion from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) coun­cil­lors and a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) al­der­man who vot­ed against fund­ing mu­sic trucks and a band for the events.

Pres­sure is mount­ing over the fu­ture of the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, with the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) warn­ing that hun­dreds of work­ers face grow­ing un­cer­tain­ty ahead of a Ju­ly 16 dead­line tied to the ho­tel’s op­er­a­tional sta­tus.

The re­quest by for­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young for De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge to be in­ter­viewed fol­low­ing his bomb­shell claim that two dead­ly shoot­ings in Mor­vant and Bel­mont were linked has been wel­comed by se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers.

There is ex­pect­ed to be fur­ther heat in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day over the ef­fec­tive­ness of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) and the ris­ing num­ber of mur­ders in Trinidad and To­ba­go, as well as de­bate on a re­port con­cern­ing a PNM sen­a­tor’s con­tin­ued mem­ber­ship on a Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Par­lia­men­tary Com­mit­tee.

An in­junc­tion pre­vent­ing the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) from pro­ceed­ing with the evic­tion of ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) will re­main in ef­fect at least un­til the end of this month.

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

Res­i­dents of Corinth Hills were left cow­er­ing un­der gun­fire on Sun­day morn­ing af­ter gun­men sprayed bul­lets at an apart­ment com­plex in San Fer­nan­do, shat­ter­ing win­dows, pierc­ing homes and in­jur­ing an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer.

Four peo­ple are ex­pect­ed to be charged with the mur­ders of Ken­neth Gill and Bernard Ma­habir, whose burnt bod­ies were dis­cov­ered in the trunk of a car in Va­len­cia, on Mon­day, April 27.

From June 1, the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices will have a re­vised el­i­gi­bil­i­ty Stan­dard Means test al­low­ing more low-in­come and vul­ner­a­ble per­sons to qual­i­fy for State sup­port. This in­cludes house­holds af­fect­ed by the dis­con­tin­u­a­tion of the Com­mu­ni­ty En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP).

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has an­nounced a tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of ser­vices at the Princes Town Li­cens­ing Of­fice due to a sched­uled elec­tric­i­ty dis­rup­tion. The in­ter­rup­tion will oc­cur on Wednes­day, 13 May 2026, be­tween 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., leav­ing the of­fice with­out pow­er dur­ing that pe­ri­od.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to dri­ving na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment and fos­ter­ing in­no­va­tion dur­ing the open­ing of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­al En­gi­neers of Trinidad and To­ba­go (APETT) Tech­ni­cal Con­fer­ence 2026.

The Min­istry of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­leged breach­es of labour laws in­volv­ing work­ers at two su­per­mar­kets fol­low­ing claims made in a Face­book post.