Some­times, when you least ex­pect it—but con­tin­ue to work hard—the unimag­in­able can hap­pen. That’s ex­act­ly what hap­pened for 2026 Pres­i­dent’s Medal awardee Aliya Ser­rette of Bish­op Anstey High School and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East (BATCE).

De­spite op­er­at­ing with a di­lap­i­dat­ed sci­ence lab, Fyz­abad An­gli­can Sec­ondary School has con­tin­ued to ex­cel in sci­ence, with stu­dents con­sis­tent­ly earn­ing full cer­tifi­cates, of­ten in sci­en­tif­ic fields.

A New York fam­i­ly has made his­to­ry as the first in the city to be grant­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zen­ship un­der the coun­try’s new law al­low­ing chil­dren to ac­quire cit­i­zen­ship through a grand­par­ent.

The Supreme Court struck down Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s far-reach­ing glob­al tar­iffs on Fri­day, hand­ing him a sting­ing loss that sparked a fu­ri­ous at­tack on the court he helped shape.

Mem­bers of Venezuela ’s op­po­si­tion, pris­on­ers’ rights groups and rel­a­tives of peo­ple long de­tained for po­lit­i­cal rea­sons gave a luke­warm re­cep­tion Fri­day to an amnesty mea­sure ex­pect­ed to free hun­dreds of ac­tivists and hu­man rights de­fend­ers.

The Lost Tribe has se­cured a clean sweep of the ma­jor Car­ni­val 2026 ti­tles, adding the Up­town Car­ni­val Im­prove­ment Com­mit­tee Band of the Year (Large) award to its pre­vi­ous Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion and Down­town vic­to­ries.

Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Eli Za­k­our, met with His Ex­cel­len­cy William Sid­ney Bush Howard, Am­bas­sador of the Re­pub­lic of Colom­bia to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as part of ef­forts to strength­en the civ­il avi­a­tion sec­tor.

The Unit­ed States has com­mit­ted US$6 mil­lion to sup­port Trinidad and To­ba­go’s health sys­tem over the next two years.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is re­mind­ing its mem­ber states of the im­por­tance of the In­te­grat­ed Vec­tor Man­age­ment ap­proach in ad­dress­ing the resur­gence of the Chikun­gun­ya Virus and oth­er ar­bovi­ral dis­eases such as Dengue and Zi­ka.

Of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion have ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old man fol­low­ing a rob­bery with vi­o­lence in­ci­dent in the San Juan dis­trict yes­ter­day.

There has been an “alarm­ing in­crease” in the num­ber of chil­dren be­ing re­cruit­ed in­to gangs in Haiti with “dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences” for chil­dren, fam­i­lies and so­ci­ety, the Unit­ed Na­tions re­port­ed on Fri­day.

Cul­tur­al icon David Rud­der has re­ceived the Paul Har­ris Fel­low award from the Ro­tary Club of Cen­tral Port of Spain.