Reef tour op­er­a­tors and jet ski stake­hold­ers say the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly must ac­cept blame for last month’s fa­tal ac­ci­dent in Pi­geon Point, in which sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie was killed by a jet ski op­er­a­tor while play­ing in a bathing-on­ly zone.

While Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les re­mains mum on Janelle John-Bates’ sen­a­to­r­i­al fu­ture, Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Bench in the Sen­ate Dr Amery Browne is ask­ing for pa­tience, stress­ing the need for Beck­les to have time to make the best de­ci­sion.

Con­cerns are be­ing raised over the “mys­te­ri­ous” cir­cum­stances that led to the Gov­ern­ment abrupt­ly ad­journ­ing yes­ter­day’s Sen­ate sit­ting in un­der an hour.

Gov­ern­ment’s Vic­tims’ Rights Bill 2026, which pro­tects vic­tims in a va­ri­ety of ground­break­ing new ways, will call for a sea of change in the mind­set of in­ves­ti­ga­to­ry agen­cies like the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and pros­e­cut­ing agen­cies to en­sure vic­tims’ rights are up­held.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is keep­ing silent on a high-stakes diplo­mat­ic ini­tia­tive an­nounced by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last month, rais­ing fresh ques­tions about the sta­tus of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to se­cure its share of cross-bor­der en­er­gy re­sources from neigh­bour­ing Venezuela.

In light of the re­cent spate of home in­va­sions in cen­tral Trinidad, some in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors be­lieve that ac­cess to le­gal firearms for cit­i­zens who may qual­i­fy for it should be made eas­i­er. 

A Debe den­tist has been or­dered to re­pay the out­stand­ing bal­ance of a loan she guar­an­teed for her for­mer boyfriend.

A High Court judge has dis­missed a neg­li­gence claim brought by a woman who al­leged she suf­fered a knee in­jury af­ter be­ing struck by a door at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The State has been or­dered to pay com­pen­sa­tion to a re­tired teacher, who the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion de­layed re­assess­ing for pro­mo­tion when she learned she was not pro­mot­ed al­most five years af­ter she was of­fi­cial­ly in­formed. 

CARIB Brew­ery took a taste of the Caribbean to In­dia when it host­ed an ex­clu­sive am­bas­sador meet and greet in Luc­know on April 24, fea­tur­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go crick­eters Nicholas Pooran and Dwayne Bra­vo.

While the On-the-Job Train­ing (OJT) Pro­gramme is man­dat­ed to pre­pare young peo­ple for the labour mar­ket, dozens of trainees re­port work­place ha­rass­ment each year, in­clud­ing sex­u­al ha­rass­ment and bul­ly­ing.

A po­lice ex­er­cise in Pi­ar­co ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of sev­en men, in­clud­ing sus­pect­ed gang mem­bers who po­lice be­lieve were “hid­ing out” in the com­mu­ni­ty af­ter re­lo­cat­ing from an­oth­er part of the coun­try.