This was at a UWI Vice-Chan­cel­lor’s Fo­rum held last Tues­day where Caribbean lead­ers, diplo­mats, and schol­ars gath­ered vir­tu­al­ly to dis­cuss U.S. Pres­i­dent, Don­ald Trump's great pol­i­cy shift and the Caribbean's re­sponse to it.

Star­bucks is mak­ing cuts to its menu, with some of the cof­fee gi­ant’s “less pop­u­lar bev­er­ages” set to take their fi­nal bow next week.

One of four new­ly ac­quired port scan­ners was com­mis­sioned to­day at the Port of Port of Spain by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert and Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan. Two will be sta­tioned there, with the oth­ers at the Port of Point Lisas.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two mur­ders in the East­ern Di­vi­sion that oc­curred in San­gre Grande and Sans Souci last night.

Thou­sands of peo­ple gath­ered in St. Pe­ter’s Square to pray for an ail­ing Pope Fran­cis, ex­press­ing sor­row for his suf­fer­ing, hope for his re­cov­ery and grat­i­tude for his ef­forts to steer the Catholic Church in new di­rec­tions.

Ar­den Williams, the at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) di­rec­tor Ma­jor Roger Best, says nei­ther he nor his client have re­ceived any cor­re­spon­dence on the in­ves­ti­ga­tion since his ar­rest ear­li­er this year.

As en­quiries in­to al­le­ga­tions of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice con­tin­ue against sus­pend­ed Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher, sources have con­firmed that of­fi­cers from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) White-Col­lar Crime Bu­reau are ex­pect­ed to meet to dis­cuss a new an­gle in the on­go­ing probe.

The youngest per­former to grace the Grand Stand Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS), Port-of-Spain stage in yes­ter­day’s 2025 Ju­nior Ca­lyp­so Monarch says he is on a mis­sion to save the art form.

With just days to go be­fore the peak of Car­ni­val 2025, Gold Com­man­der ACP Richard Smith is urg­ing mas­quer­aders and par­ty­go­ers to en­joy the cel­e­bra­tions re­spon­si­bly, re­mind­ing them that “Car­ni­val is not all” and they must be able to walk the streets with their “heads held high” af­ter the fes­tiv­i­ties.

In what was the cul­mi­na­tion of an in­tense show­down of steel and skill in To­ba­go on Sun­day night, the Katzen­jam­mers Steel Or­ches­tra took the Medi­um Bands Panora­ma tro­phy for an­oth­er year, se­cur­ing a his­toric hat-trick of vic­to­ries.

As soon as Katzen­jam­mers Steel Or­ches­tra was an­nounced the win­ner of the Medi­um Band Panora­ma Fi­nals 2025, Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore wast­ed no time in ad­dress­ing the crit­i­cism she knew was com­ing.

At­tor­ney Lar­ry Lal­la, SC, has part­ed ways with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) af­ter a 13-year tenure with the par­ty.