Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has sought to clar­i­fy com­ments that ap­peared to sug­gest he would sup­port a cur­few af­ter a triple shoot­ing in Laven­tille left two men and a tod­dler dead and re­newed pub­lic con­cern over vi­o­lent crime.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 60-year-old Latch­meper­sad Ramb­ha­jan of Lal­be­har­ry Trace, Pe­nal.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 63-year-old Toolise Maraj of Camp­bell Street, Arou­ca.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 37-year-old Jevon Stew­art of Cashew Gar­dens North, Ch­agua­nas.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the Min­istry of Health is care­ful­ly mon­i­tor­ing un­usu­al res­pi­ra­to­ry ill­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go amid in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern over a clus­ter of han­tavirus cas­es linked to a cruise ship bound for the Ca­nary Is­lands.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has in­ten­si­fied de­silt­ing op­er­a­tions and drainage as­sess­ments across sev­er­al flood-prone ar­eas as prepa­ra­tions con­tin­ue for the 2026 rainy sea­son.

A 47-year-old con­struc­tion work­er has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a fire that de­stroyed a house along St Julien Road, Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road, Princes Town.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has wel­comed a state­ment is­sued by Re­pub­lic Bank fol­low­ing pub­lic con­cern over rais­ing cus­tomer fees.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Op­po­si­tion is pre­pared to work with the Gov­ern­ment to tack­le crime fol­low­ing the Bel­mont killings that left two-year-old Aki­ni Kafi, his fa­ther Ak­il Kafi, and An­tho­ny Wil­son dead.

An al­leged gold chain thief was ap­pre­hend­ed by a cit­i­zen short­ly af­ter he at­tacked a vic­tim in San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day.

The Pres­i­dent of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, Bal­dath Ma­haraj, has warned that any at­tempt by Re­pub­lic Bank to rein­tro­duce pro­posed ser­vice fee in­creas­es would be so­cial­ly ir­re­spon­si­ble at a time when many small and medi­um-sized en­ter­pris­es (SMEs) are al­ready strug­gling with de­clin­ing sales.

Kes the Band filled NPR Mu­sic’s Wash­ing­ton, DC head­quar­ters with the sounds of sweet so­ca mu­sic as they made their Tiny Desk Con­cert de­but with a med­ley of their clas­sic tunes. It’s a per­for­mance lead singer Kees “Kes” Di­ef­fen­thaller has de­scribed as a “full-cir­cle mo­ment of ful­fill­ment” as grac­ing the desk was one of the band’s long-time dreams. In fact, he feels like he just won a mil­lion dol­lars.