Eleven-year-old Janaya Clark is this year’s Na­tion­al Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch win­ner. She lift­ed the ti­tle fol­low­ing a spir­it­ed per­for­mance of her song, Role Mod­els, at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Garvin Hen­ry, who over­sees the North-West area in­clud­ing the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sions, said that de­spite se­vere traf­fic con­ges­tion fol­low­ing the Stink + Dut­ty fete ear­ly Sat­ur­day, mea­sures were de­ployed to mit­i­gate the dis­rup­tion.

PNM deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has ex­pressed con­cern over the pas­sage of the Gov­ern­ment’s Bail Amend­ment Bill 2026 by a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty, rather than the re­quired spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty, warn­ing that its pro­vi­sions may face le­gal chal­lenges in the courts.

To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor is be­gin­ning to re­cov­er from re­cent trans­port dis­rup­tions, ac­cord­ing to Rene Seep­er­sads­ingh, first vice pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused cur­rent Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath of us­ing a re­cent state­ment on fix­ing leaks at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate as a po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion from what Gon­za­les de­scribed as cost­ly em­ploy­ment prac­tices at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Search­es con­tin­ued yes­ter­day for 17-year-old Gabriel Nel­son, who is be­lieved to have drowned in Ma­yaro on Sun­day. The Form Five stu­dent of St Stephen’s Col­lege was pulled un­der by a rip cur­rent while bathing at Grand La­goon.

A woman who re­mained the reg­is­tered own­er of a ve­hi­cle af­ter sell­ing it has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed a law­suit aris­ing from a se­ri­ous ac­ci­dent that oc­curred years af­ter she re­lin­quished pos­ses­sion.

Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Ltd has of­fi­cial­ly called off the search for the re­mains of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip. In a state­ment re­leased yes­ter­day, the com­pa­ny said that fol­low­ing the Rig 110 in­ci­dent on De­cem­ber 22, 2024, an ex­ten­sive and high­ly co­or­di­nat­ed sal­vage and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion by both lo­cal and for­eign ex­perts be­gan on Jan­u­ary 13, 2025, as part of Phase 2 op­er­a­tions.

Mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali has in­vit­ed Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der to vis­it him at the Teteron Bar­racks in Ch­aguara­mas to “con­tin­ue their last con­ver­sa­tion” and see what he de­scribed as de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty.

Griev­ing fam­i­lies could soon face high­er cre­ma­tion costs fol­low­ing the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) pro­posed 77 per cent in­crease in nat­ur­al gas prices, ac­cord­ing to pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Fu­ner­al Pro­fes­sion­als of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Kei­th Bel­grove.

This year’s Miss Cen­tral Trinidad Queen Pageant, the mar­quee event on the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee (CCC) cal­en­dar for 2026, promis­es to be the most mem­o­rable in its his­to­ry.

Pak­istan re­versed its de­ci­sion to boy­cott the T20 World Cup game against In­dia and was di­rect­ed to “take the field” in Colom­bo next Sun­day.