The lat­est pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued un­der the State of Emer­gency ac­cuse de­tainees of roles rang­ing from run­ning an ex­tor­tion net­work linked to Venezuela to steal­ing in­dus­tri­al ma­te­ri­als for the scrap met­al trade, ac­cord­ing to no­tices pub­lished in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing two men cur­rent­ly de­tained on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have chal­lenged Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to jus­ti­fy their con­tin­ued de­ten­tions.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has re­ject­ed al­le­ga­tions that she rushed the ap­proval of lease agree­ments in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed’s Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd com­pa­ny short­ly be­fore the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, say­ing the mat­ter had un­der­gone years of re­view by le­gal of­fi­cers.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has re­ject­ed ac­cu­sa­tions that his re­cent so­cial me­dia at­tack on ac­tivist Suzette Louwe was deroga­to­ry or amount­ed to an at­tack on women, even as crit­i­cism of his con­duct con­tin­ues to in­ten­si­fy.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the strong re­la­tion­ship be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States, say­ing the part­ner­ship con­tin­ues to de­liv­er tan­gi­ble ben­e­fits in health­care and oth­er key sec­tors.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is try­ing her best as po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira has been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal and is re­cov­er­ing at home af­ter suf­fer­ing a med­ical episode while ap­pear­ing live on tele­vi­sion on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to in­tro­duce the E-Pass­port sys­tem, ar­gu­ing that it was not on­ly more con­ve­nient for dai­ly tasks and record-keep­ing but would al­so en­sure a high­er de­gree of se­cu­ri­ty is main­tained.

A re­cent mud ex­tru­sion has been dis­cov­ered at Pa­lo Seco Bay, the lat­est ge­o­log­i­cal fea­ture to emerge along Trinidad’s south-west­ern coast­line fol­low­ing the re­cent pow­er­ful twin earth­quakes off Venezuela. It is be­lieved the ex­tru­sion may have oc­curred around the same time the coast­line at Gal­fa Beach in Ce­dros was up­lift­ed by ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20 feet.

Garbage piles and de­te­ri­o­rat­ing road con­di­tions have be­come a grow­ing con­cern for res­i­dents of the Cy­press Ridge Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) com­mu­ni­ty, who are call­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion, warn­ing that the prob­lems are cre­at­ing health and safe­ty risks.

With the grow­ing use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI), the Ju­di­cia­ry has is­sued a prac­tice di­rec­tion on the re­spon­si­ble use of AI in court pro­ceed­ings.

One hun­dred and fifty-eight dai­ly-paid work­ers are ex­pect­ed to be pro­mot­ed to per­ma­nent em­ploy­ment with­in the Di­vi­sion of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion.