A day of fam­i­ly fun end­ed in tragedy when four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a nine-year-old girl, were am­bushed and killed while on their way home on Sun­day night.

An au­top­sy per­formed on the body of act­ing Cpl Anusha Ever­s­ley, who was found dead in the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day, has found that she was stran­gled and al­so suf­fered blunt and sharp force trau­mat­ic in­juries (stab and chop wounds).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing her of “ab­di­ca­tion of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty” in the wake of a vi­o­lent week­end that has shak­en Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of en­gag­ing in “Tik­Tok gov­er­nance,” urg­ing her to “put down the phones” and con­front what she(Pan­day) de­scribed as a wors­en­ing crime cri­sis.

San Fer­nan­do busi­ness­peo­ple say they are wor­ried af­ter the brazen breach of the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion and the theft of a cache of firearms, with one jew­ellery store own­er now plan­ning to shut down op­er­a­tions by next year due to es­ca­lat­ing crime.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah has de­scribed the re­port­ed breach at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, which re­sult­ed in the death of a po­lice of­fi­cer and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the sta­tion’s vault, as a “deeply dis­turb­ing and high­ly sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dent.”

Three more peo­ple, in­clud­ing a woman, have been ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the at­tempt­ed il­le­gal dis­pos­al of 56 hu­man re­mains.

One year ago, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) swept in­to of­fice with a promise that in six months from the date Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was sworn in (May 1, 2025), Trinidad and To­ba­go will be a safer place.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar toured the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies South (Debe) Cam­pus yes­ter­day as re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion works com­menced, reaf­firm­ing her Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to open­ing the fa­cil­i­ty for stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Eu­ro­pean Union’s am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Cé­cile Tassin, be­lieves the mod­el of con­fi­den­tial di­a­logue can help the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) re­solve in­ter­nal dis­agree­ments, as ten­sions per­sist with­in the re­gion­al bloc over the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Re­lief and cel­e­bra­tion swept through Pep­per Vil­lage, Fyz­abad, on Sun­day af­ter 74-year-old Dooran Mooni­lal was found alive fol­low­ing a tense four-day search in the bush­es be­hind his home.

Af­ter spend­ing 14 years in prison, a woman,  who ad­mit­ted to mur­der­ing her boyfriend dur­ing an ar­gu­ment over her al­leged in­fi­deli­ty, has been re­leased.