To­ba­go po­lice seized more than $1.1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na and ar­rest­ed three sus­pects dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion in Canaan yes­ter­day.

A Cunu­pia busi­ness­man was shot sev­er­al times yes­ter­day af­ter leav­ing a busi­ness es­tab­lish­ment in Trinci­ty, in what in­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve was a tar­get­ed at­tack.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al food im­port bill hov­ers around $7 bil­lion, three once-promis­ing youth agri­cul­tur­al pro­grammes lie aban­doned, leav­ing near­ly 1,500 grad­u­ates fac­ing un­cer­tain­ty and dashed hopes.

There will be no To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA)-fund­ed fire­works dis­play for In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions in To­ba­go to­mor­row.

Mar­itime sur­vey­or Ri­car­do Al­fred has con­firmed that a Frankie Tours reef tour boat that sank ear­li­er this week will have to un­der­go a new sur­vey be­fore it can re­turn to ser­vice at the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park in To­ba­go.

The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) is ques­tion­ing whether po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tions are in­flu­enc­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s treat­ment of trade unions, ar­gu­ing that State in­sti­tu­tions and re­sources must not be used to favour or­gan­i­sa­tions aligned with the ad­min­is­tra­tion.

More than two months af­ter po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors were in­struct­ed to charge Ka­ia Sealy with eight of­fences, in­clud­ing the killing of her com­mon-law hus­band Joshua Sama­roo, the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has yet to com­plete its re­port in­to the fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has ac­ti­vat­ed se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures fol­low­ing an un­ver­i­fied re­port con­cern­ing pos­si­ble threats to em­bassies, diplo­mat­ic fa­cil­i­ties and Gov­ern­ment build­ings.

Six chil­dren and sev­en women were re­leased by a gang in Haiti that had kid­napped more than 50 peo­ple af­ter launch­ing a dead­ly at­tack on a com­mu­ni­ty near the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince, near­ly a week ago, ac­cord­ing to UNICEF.

Light mo­tor ve­hi­cles will be al­lowed to ac­cess both the east­bound and west­bound lanes of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) from 8:00 pm on Mon­day, Au­gust 31, 2026, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion.

Guyana con­tin­ues to be one of the fastest-grow­ing economies in the world, and a new re­port shows the coun­try is im­prov­ing at man­ag­ing what it owes.

Ja­maica’s Min­istry of Cli­mate Change has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens through the en­hance­ment of mul­ti-haz­ard ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems.