The fu­ture of Caribbean re­gion­al­ism will be one of the hot top­ics to take cen­tre stage at this year’s Bo­cas Lit Fest. The event, which runs from April 30 to May 3, was launched yes­ter­day at NALIS in Port-of-Spain with pro­gramme di­rec­tor Nicholas Laugh­lin re­veal­ing this year’s theme: All To­geth­er Now.

Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has crit­i­cised For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers over his fail­ure to re­spond to a se­ries of par­lia­men­tary ques­tions on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has is­sued a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry re­gard­ing gath­er­ings and protests in the vicin­i­ty of po­lice sta­tions. The re­lease, dat­ed 25 March 2026, em­pha­sis­es that all pub­lic as­sem­blies must com­ply with the law, re­main peace­ful, and avoid ob­struct­ing po­lice op­er­a­tions or threat­en­ing pub­lic safe­ty.

A poul­try farm­ing project de­signed to give young adults with dis­abil­i­ties re­al job skills and in­come op­por­tu­ni­ties is now up and run­ning at the La­dy Ho­choy South Home in Gas­par­il­lo.

Flow Trinidad fo­cused its In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day ac­tiv­i­ties on com­mu­ni­ty sup­port, with its Project Em­pow­er­HER do­na­tion dri­ve de­liv­er­ing es­sen­tial sup­plies to women and chil­dren in need.

Three sus­pects are in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to lar­ce­ny and rob­bery re­ports in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion this week.

A man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter of­fi­cers re­cov­ered stolen cheese dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in the Tacarigua dis­trict on Tues­day.

Two sus­pects are in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing a rob­bery at a su­per­mar­ket in the Fyz­abad dis­trict on Tues­day.

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has crit­i­cised the cur­rent ap­proach to grant­i­ng Firearm User Li­cences, say­ing it con­flicts with Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on cit­i­zens de­fend­ing them­selves.

A ju­ry found both Meta and YouTube li­able in a first-of-its-kind law­suit that aimed to hold so­cial me­dia plat­forms re­spon­si­ble for harm to chil­dren us­ing their ser­vices, award­ing the plain­tiff $3 mil­lion in dam­ages.

A 29-year-old Princes Town man has been sen­tenced to 16 months’ im­pris­on­ment with hard labour af­ter plead­ing guilty to ware­house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

Emile Ramkissoon has been elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion, step­ping in­to the role at a time of mount­ing pres­sure on the coun­try’s non-en­er­gy sec­tor and grow­ing calls for de­ci­sive pol­i­cy ac­tion.