A mas­sive fire yes­ter­day morn­ing gut­ted the east­ern sec­tion of RS Im­ports Whole­sale Ware­house 2000 in Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas, caus­ing mil­lions in in­fra­struc­ture dam­age and mil­lions more in busi­ness loss­es, ac­cord­ing to own­er Vi­jay Jaglal.

Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce pres­i­dent Bal­dath Ma­haraj has de­scribed yes­ter­day’s fire in Chase Vil­lage as a trou­bling de­vel­op­ment for the wider busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in Cen­tral Trinidad.

Even though six new emer­gency ve­hi­cles have been de­ployed across the South­ern Di­vi­sion, fire of­fi­cials are warn­ing that many sta­tions are still op­er­at­ing with age­ing ap­pli­ances that are in­creas­ing­ly un­re­li­able and pose a se­ri­ous risk to of­fi­cers and the pub­lic.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­als for in­creased penal­ties for of­fences re­lat­ing to “wa­ter theft rack­et” will soon be for­ward­ed to the Law Re­view Com­mis­sion.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced plans for a na­tion­wide au­dit of the coun­try’s elec­tric­i­ty in­fra­struc­ture, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to strength­en the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of the pow­er sys­tem.

On­ly one buoy was al­leged­ly found dur­ing a court-or­dered site vis­it to the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park to as­sess whether its bound­aries are clear­ly de­mar­cat­ed.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is im­plor­ing res­i­dents of Spey­side and De­laford to con­serve wa­ter amid a harsh dry sea­son.

Pro­vi­sions in the Vic­tims’ Rights Bill, 2026, be­ing de­bat­ed in the Sen­ate to­day, will in­clude al­low­ing a vic­tim to ap­ply to the court for a con­vict­ed of­fend­er to pay them com­pen­sa­tion - and pro­vid­ing for vic­tims’ pro­tec­tion from in­tim­i­da­tion by an of­fend­er and their sup­port­ers dur­ing court pro­ceed­ings.

The Court of Ap­peal has re­solved a law­suit over an unau­tho­rised mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar pay­ment fa­cil­i­tat­ed by the for­mer se­nior ex­ec­u­tive of an in­sur­ance com­pa­ny. 

A man is ex­pect­ed to spend 14 days in prison for fail­ing to clear an al­most $1.5 mil­lion court-or­dered debt. 

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2026 wet sea­son has of­fi­cial­ly be­gun, two weeks ear­li­er than last year, sig­nalling the start of what could be an­oth­er crit­i­cal pe­ri­od for flood­ing, wa­ter man­age­ment and dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness.

A tem­po­rary road clo­sure is now in ef­fect be­tween the Chase Vil­lage over­pass and the South­ern Main Road, in the vicin­i­ty of Thomp­son Road, as emer­gency re­sponse ac­tiv­i­ties con­tin­ue fol­low­ing a fire at the RS Im­ports Whole­sale Ware­house 2000 in Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas.