A Mara­cas man was killed and an­oth­er in­jured af­ter the par­cel of land they were ex­ca­vat­ing to build a box drain col­lapsed, bury­ing them.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $1.2 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to eight women for abuse they suf­fered while re­mand­ed to the Women’s Prison in Arou­ca when they were ju­ve­niles.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch say they may be forced to park their mo­tor­cy­cles if their calls for new uni­forms con­tin­ue to be ig­nored.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has again pushed back against what she de­scribed as “mis­chie­vous com­ments” by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les over the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a com­mit­tee to re­view the bound­aries of mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions in Trinidad.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Princess Eliz­a­beth Cen­tre, Jan Sir­jus­ingh, has urged young peo­ple to choose pos­i­tive paths, point­ing to the ex­am­ple set by stu­dent char­i­ty founder Liam Chan Pak dur­ing an out­reach and Car­ni­val cheer event at the cen­tre on Fri­day.

A blog­ger and for­mer ra­dio host has been charged with sedi­tion af­ter a post on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly in­vit­ed for­eign par­ties to tar­get the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Prime Min­is­ter.

The Unit­ed States says Caribbean coun­tries have al­ter­na­tives to Cu­ba’s over­seas med­ical mis­sions, as it re­newed calls to end what it de­scribed as forced labour linked to the pro­gramme and in­sist­ed it has on­ly re­cent­ly raised the is­sue pub­licly.

Land­lords across Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be re­quired to for­mal­ly step in­to the tax net, as down­load­able reg­is­tra­tion forms for the new Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge be­come avail­able from March 1, 2026.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at 8.45 pm on Feb­ru­ary 5. Res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing loud ex­plo­sions from an area close to where Sook­nanan lived.

Brit­ton passed away on Thurs­day night in the In­ten­sive Care Unit at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

A 17-year-old San Juan girl is one of three peo­ple charged with the mur­der of 25-year-old Sir Ja­mal Ram­per­sad last month.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of em­bark­ing on a hir­ing spree at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) dur­ing its first sev­en months in of­fice, claim­ing the move has in­flat­ed the au­thor­i­ty’s an­nu­al wage bill by an es­ti­mat­ed $60 to $70 mil­lion.