The on­go­ing maxi taxi strike has trig­gered a surge in de­mand for al­ter­na­tive trans­porta­tion ser­vices, with ride-share op­er­a­tors re­port­ing in­creased ac­tiv­i­ty while taxi dri­vers voiced sup­port for the con­cerns raised by maxi op­er­a­tors.

The Court of Ap­peal has ruled that a for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) pol­i­cy of pub­lish­ing pho­tographs of cit­i­zens charged with crimes was un­law­ful.

A woman from Tacarigua has won a prop­er­ty dis­pute with her broth­er over his con­tin­ued res­i­dence on a prop­er­ty that their moth­er left her. 

The parish priest of St Mary’s RC Church in St James, is be­ing hailed for his hero­ic ac­tions af­ter pre­vent­ing the theft of a taber­na­cle dur­ing a break-in ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­posed body at Blas Cha Cha, Pe­nal Rock Road, Moru­ga.

Po­lice have re­cov­ered a firearm be­lieved to have been stolen from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion and de­tained three men dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in St James.

Twen­ty-one spent shells, in­clud­ing one with TTPS mark­ings, were among bal­lis­tic items re­cov­ered fol­low­ing a dou­ble homi­cide and shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Pe­nal on Sun­day night, in which two men were killed and an­oth­er wound­ed.

UNC coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram, who is on the road to re­cov­ery, has been trans­ferred from the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to a gen­er­al ward, ac­cord­ing to se­nior hos­pi­tal of­fi­cials.

Po­lice have re­cov­ered a firearm be­lieved to have been stolen from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion and de­tained three men dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in St James.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has nom­i­nat­ed Trinidad-born for­mer Flori­da lieu­tenant gov­er­nor Jen­nifer John­son-Car­roll to serve as the next Unit­ed States am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate with­draw­al of Le­gal No­tice No. 40 of 2026, which es­tab­lish­es 15 no-protest zones un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

A coali­tion of 11 trade unions is threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against the Gov­ern­ment over new­ly im­posed State of Emer­gency (SOE) reg­u­la­tions that re­strict pub­lic demon­stra­tions at 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.