Four-time stick­fight­ing cham­pi­on Sel­wyn John re­claimed his cov­et­ed King of the Rock ti­tle and was crowned Kalin­da King of Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter de­feat­ing his nephew, An­der­son Mar­cano, in a jaw-drop­ping bout in Moru­ga yes­ter­day morn­ing.

It was a “Ram­page” on stage as stu­dents and par­ents “Link Up” at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, where Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do’s Mar­cus Mc­Don­ald and St Pe­ter’s Pri­vate Pri­ma­ry School’s Ky­mani “Yung Ky­mani” Hec­tor-Kalloo cap­tured the 2026 Ju­nior So­ca ti­tles in a blaz­ing dis­play of youth­ful tal­ent.

For­mer work­ers of the Cabo Star are call­ing for eq­ui­ty af­ter its re­place­ment, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, was manned by for­eign sea­far­ers.

Po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Ka­ia Sealy is re­fus­ing to give up her fight for jus­tice even as she re­mains con­fined to a hos­pi­tal bed and con­tin­ues to be de­nied ac­cess to po­lice records and her per­son­al de­vices.

The search for two men who opened fire on po­lice of­fi­cers in Tu­na­puna on Mon­day night end­ed yes­ter­day af­ter they vol­un­tar­i­ly sur­ren­dered to au­thor­i­ties.

A St Joseph man was killed on Mon­day in what po­lice are de­scrib­ing as a re­venge at­tack fol­low­ing a day of gun-fu­elled ex­changes.

Through her grief, the moth­er of 45-year-old mur­der vic­tim Ash­ton Welles yes­ter­day ap­pealed to those in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty to change their lives.

Record­ing an al­ter­ca­tion on his cell­phone may have led to the fa­tal stab­bing of a 28-year-old labour­er in Long­denville on Mon­day, po­lice said.

Heart­bro­ken rel­a­tives of 17-year-old school­boy Gabriel Nel­son found clo­sure yes­ter­day af­ter his body was re­cov­ered, two days af­ter he drowned at Grand La­goon, Ma­yaro.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a Form Three stu­dent was robbed and as­sault­ed in­side her class­room at Ste Madeleine Sec­ondary School on Mon­day.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­ate Leader Dar­rell Al­la­har has ex­pressed con­cern over the fail­ure of pub­lic ser­vice com­mis­sions, cit­ing par­ti­san­ship and pol­i­tics “mas­querad­ing un­der the cloak of in­de­pen­dence” and warn­ing of a “deep state PNM thing” at play.

Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) scored 41 out of 100 in the 2025 Cor­rup­tion Per­cep­tions In­dex (CPI), rank­ing 81st out of 182 coun­tries. The coun­try’s score has re­mained stag­nant at 41 or 42 over the past five years.