Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the Low­er House of Par­lia­ment to­day that T&T is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions in the Mid­dle East and their po­ten­tial im­pact on glob­al sup­ply chains and the do­mes­tic econ­o­my.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment is in con­sul­ta­tion with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly on mea­sures to reg­u­late the use of jet skis and oth­er plea­sure craft fol­low­ing the death of a young girl at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park in To­ba­go.

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.

De­spite what he de­scribed as drops in sev­er­al cat­e­gories of crime, in­clud­ing mur­ders, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the suc­cess­es of the TTPS of­ten go un­no­ticed in the face of cyn­i­cal so­cial me­dia users.

Iran said Fri­day it ful­ly re­opened the Strait of Hor­muz to com­mer­cial ves­sels, but Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said the Amer­i­can block­ade on Iran­ian ships and ports “will re­main in full force” un­til Tehran reach­es a deal with the U.S., in­clud­ing on its nu­clear pro­gram.

The Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor has halt­ed the award of $3.4 bil­lion in Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­tracts to 11 com­pa­nies, just hours af­ter a Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter de­fend­ed the process.

Two days af­ter a con­tro­ver­sy erupt­ed, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) moved against one of its own, re­mov­ing Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates from the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC).

Gold Com­man­der of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin, says the num­ber of peo­ple de­tained so far un­der this SoE has al­ready sur­passed the num­ber ar­rest­ed dur­ing the en­tire­ty of last SoE.

Days af­ter a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) was is­sued for a Guapo teenag­er for firearm of­fences and sus­pect­ed gang af­fil­i­a­tion, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cerned by the in­volve­ment of chil­dren in se­ri­ous crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Thir­teen more de­ten­tion or­ders have been is­sued un­der reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, in­clud­ing one for a de­tainee who as­sist­ed a cor­rupt mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice in in­ter­fer­ing with ev­i­dence linked to a transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime group.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing ap­pli­cants for firearm user’s li­cences (FULs) to be pa­tient as the nec­es­sary back­ground checks, in­ves­ti­ga­tions and process­es are com­plet­ed, not­ing that while they are free to ap­ply for a per­mit, they are not en­ti­tled to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly re­ceive one.

Robert “Peb­bles” Tardieu was a man to whom fam­i­ly meant every­thing, for whom oc­ca­sions were a cel­e­bra­tion of life—and he had a spe­cial tra­di­tion with his el­der broth­er Der­rick “Stones” Tardieu, which said every­thing about his love for fam­i­ly.