The Venezue­lan Em­bassy in T&T con­tin­ues to urge con­cerned cit­i­zens and in­di­vid­u­als to sup­port its re­lief dri­ve, fol­low­ing the Galleon’s Pas­sage ar­rival in Venezuela last Fri­day with hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid for that coun­try’s earth­quake-hit vic­tims.

Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence did not ap­pear to sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­flu­ence vot­er be­hav­iour or the out­come of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, but a re­searcher is warn­ing that with­out reg­u­la­tion, AI-gen­er­at­ed po­lit­i­cal con­tent could be­come a ma­jor threat by the next elec­tion cy­cle.

For­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young area ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of us­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters to di­vert pub­lic at­ten­tion from what they say are more press­ing na­tion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing vi­o­lent crime, the for­eign ex­change short­age, eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, Point Lisas plant clo­sures, grow­ing debt and Trinidad and To­ba­go's ex­clu­sion from dis­cus­sions on Venezue­lan gas.

Sen. Lind­sey Gra­ham, one of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s clos­est al­lies in Con­gress who trav­eled the globe to ad­vo­cate for a more ag­gres­sive U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy, has died af­ter a “brief and sud­den ill­ness,” his of­fice said. He was 71.

A heat­ed ar­gu­ment be­tween two men in Va­len­cia es­ca­lat­ed in­to a cut­lass at­tack on Fri­day af­ter­noon, leav­ing one man with se­ri­ous in­juries and an­oth­er in po­lice cus­tody.

Statu­to­ry re­ports from the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency show the State in­ter­cept­ed over two mil­lion calls and da­ta be­tween 2018 and 2023, but none of the re­ports re­viewed or pub­lic state­ments record­ed a con­vic­tion aris­ing from crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings in which in­ter­cept­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions were used.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has de­scribed le­gal pro­ceed­ings for it to dis­close the fi­nanc­ing for the ren­o­va­tion and con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain as a po­lit­i­cal witch hunt.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is in­sist­ing that the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fund­ing of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters is be­ing con­duct­ed in­de­pen­dent­ly and has noth­ing to do with pol­i­tics. He is urg­ing the pub­lic to al­low in­ves­ti­ga­tors and the courts to car­ry out their du­ties with­out po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

The fa­ther of 14-year-old An­drea Fran­cis says he was un­aware of the con­tents of her au­top­sy re­port and in­sists he could nev­er harm his chil­dren, even as in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­firmed the Ch­agua­nas teenag­er was mur­dered.

Three weeks af­ter ca­ble thieves plunged the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) Fair­field, Princes Town com­mu­ni­ty in­to dark­ness, res­i­dents are now fac­ing an­oth­er cri­sis af­ter ca­ble thieves crip­pled the com­mu­ni­ty’s waste­water treat­ment plant. The dis­cov­ery was made around 8.25 am yes­ter­day when an HDC em­ploy­ee found the plant, which ser­vices hun­dreds of house­holds, van­dalised.

A Venezue­lan woman was stabbed to death dur­ing a do­mes­tic dis­pute in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. 

And that’s be­fore mil­lions of tax­pay­er dol­lars are spent on au­dit re­ports, le­gal fees and com­mis­sions of in­quiry.