The Na­tion­al Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nals will be held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this year af­ter dam­age to the new­ly-leased MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny fer­ry forced or­gan­is­ers to aban­don plans to stage the event in To­ba­go.

The coun­try’s high­est ap­pel­late court has pro­vid­ed guid­ance on the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the statu­to­ry cri­te­ria for ap­point­ing the chair­man of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of T&T (NIBTT).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­versed its re­quest for a busi­ness­woman from south Trinidad to dis­close who was us­ing her ve­hi­cle at the time it was al­leged­ly in­volved in a shoot­ing.

An au­top­sy has con­firmed that Bar­rack­pore res­i­dent Mer­ril Sabessar was beat­en and stran­gled, but in­ves­ti­ga­tors say they have not yet iden­ti­fied a sus­pect in her killing.

A Glen­coe dis­trib­u­tor of dis­pos­able vapes was robbed of more than $170,000 in mer­chan­dise, af­ter ban­dits broke in­to his rent­ed ware­house in San Juan on Sun­day.

Two peo­ple are in po­lice cus­tody af­ter be­ing caught with co­caine in San Fer­nan­do and Mon Re­pos on Mon­day, dur­ing pa­trols and a rov­ing road­block ex­er­cise.

The San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee has sus­pend­ed the com­pet­i­tive com­po­nent of San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val 2026, cit­ing re­duced fund­ing for the up­com­ing sea­son.

The first char­ter flight from Ghana could ar­rive in T&T in April if Trade, In­dus­try, and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj has his way. Speak­ing with re­porters on Sun­day at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Ma­haraj ex­plained that a di­rect T&T-Ghana con­nec­tion would “open new mar­kets, both for trade and in­vest­ment, but al­so, more im­por­tant­ly, for tourism”. 

The Min­istry of Health has is­sued an alert on We­govy tablets fol­low­ing re­ports of cir­cu­la­tion of a fal­si­fied prod­uct. The alert was is­sued on Feb­ru­ary 3, 2026, through the Chem­istry, Food and Drugs Di­vi­sion.

The Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nals will be held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this year af­ter dam­age to the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny forced or­gan­is­ers to aban­don plans to stage the event in To­ba­go.

Lib­er­ty Caribbean, op­er­a­tors of Flow, Lib­er­ty Busi­ness and BTC, has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to trans­lat­ing re­gion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty in­to mea­sur­able eco­nom­ic and so­cial out­comes as Di­a­mond Spon­sor of CAN­TO Con­nect 2026 and the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s 42nd An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing.

TU­CO an­nounced fi­nal­ists for the Na­tion­al Ex­tem­po and Na­tion­al Freestyle Com­pe­ti­tions 2026 af­ter pre­lim­i­nary and se­mi-fi­nal rounds on Feb­ru­ary 2 at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port of Spain. In ex­tem­po, fi­nal­ists Akeem Chance Preedy, Bri­an Lon­don, Joseph La Place­liere Lin­go, Kedell No­ray Dr Kno, My­ron Bruce Ca­lyp­so Nite, Nes­ta Box­ill Sekon Sta and Win­ston Pe­ters Gyp­sy will com­pete against Ex­tem­po Cham­pi­on Phillip Mur­ray Black Sage.