The Firearms Ap­peal Board has been or­dered to re­con­sid­er a le­gal chal­lenge over the re­fusal of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er to grant a man a Firearm User’s Li­cence (FUL).

At least two To­bag­o­ni­ans have been scammed by fraud­sters pos­ing on­line as used-car deal­ers, as po­lice warn the scheme may be af­fect­ing vic­tims na­tion­wide.

Da­ta from Ar­rive Alive in­di­cates that Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to record se­ri­ous road traf­fic ac­ci­dents, al­though fa­tal­i­ties so far this year are sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

Res­i­dents of Care­nage en­dured what they de­scribed as a “trau­mat­ic and fright­en­ing” night af­ter a fast-mov­ing hill­side fire crept to with­in me­tres of their homes, forc­ing some fam­i­lies to evac­u­ate while oth­ers scram­bled to pro­tect their prop­er­ties.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty has an­nounced what it de­scribes as a mile­stone in neona­tal care, fol­low­ing the dis­charge of the small­est triplets ever de­liv­ered and treat­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s replies to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) ques­tions in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day went down mi­nus is­sue. But as sit­tings go, the fuss­ing and fight­ing by Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion spi­ralled right af­ter.

T&T’s ge­o­graph­ic po­si­tion­ing has long been tout­ed as its pri­ma­ry eco­nom­ic as­set, serv­ing as a vi­tal “bridge” be­tween the South Amer­i­can con­ti­nent and the glob­al mar­ket­place.

The Gov­ern­ment will ex­empt pen­sion pay­ments from ap­proved pen­sion fund plans and ap­proved de­ferred an­nu­ity plans from in­come tax, un­der a ma­jor re­form to be in­tro­duced in the Fi­nance Bill, 2026.

Of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) seized firearms and de­stroyed more than 100 cannabis trees dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Thurs­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is in­creas­ing its re­sponse to re­ports of lar­ce­ny and ma­li­cious dam­age at Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty fa­cil­i­ties, with the mat­ter re­ceiv­ing pri­or­i­ty at­ten­tion.

The death of Steve Ghany Ju­nior has sparked a move­ment in­volv­ing a for­mer Jus­tice Min­is­ter, a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist and an at­tor­ney aimed at tak­ing back so­ci­ety, by em­pow­er­ing abused women, build­ing stronger men and push­ing for greater po­lice pro­tec­tion for vic­tims.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has in­di­cat­ed plans to es­ca­late its push for salary in­creas­es for nurs­es with­in the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties.