Caribbean Air­lines is adding 1,200 seats to the do­mes­tic air­bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go ahead of the Great Race week­end.

The chances of a trop­i­cal sys­tem de­vel­op­ing east of the Caribbean have de­creased, but fore­cast­ers say heavy rain­fall, gusty winds and chop­py seas could still af­fect parts of the Less­er An­tilles this week­end.

A 27-year-old Cara­pichaima ma­son has been charged with the mur­der of 25-year-old Sha­keem Breedy, who was shot dead in De­cem­ber last year.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment in­tends to build on what she de­scribed as the strong and en­dur­ing friend­ship be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States, as Wash­ing­ton de­clared that re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries are at a “his­toric high.”

The Na­tion­al In­vest­ment Fund Hold­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NIF) has re­versed a $147.4 mil­lion loss record­ed in the first half of 2025, post­ing to­tal com­pre­hen­sive in­come of $4.3 mil­lion for the six months end­ed June 30, 2026.

Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed (NFM) has com­plet­ed wage ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union (SWW­TU) for the pe­ri­od Jan­u­ary 2023 to De­cem­ber 2025.

Con­sumers fac­ing dif­fi­cul­ty find­ing chick­en at some re­tail out­lets are be­ing told to ex­pect re­lief in the com­ing weeks, with the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture say­ing in­creased chick­en avail­abil­i­ty is ex­pect­ed to en­ter the pro­duc­tion pipeline with­in the next two weeks.

Poul­try op­er­a­tors in South Trinidad say they are re­ceiv­ing up to 50 per cent few­er birds, forc­ing some busi­ness­es to re­duce staff and, at times, close their doors as chick­en prices con­tin­ue to rise due to the short­fall.

Two po­lice of­fi­cers have been de­tained in con­nec­tion with the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of three firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion from the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion on St Vin­cent Street, Port-of-Spain. The de­ten­tion was con­firmed late yes­ter­day by po­lice of­fi­cials.

A man want­ed in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of po­lice con­sta­ble Romel Dou­glas was shot and killed by po­lice dur­ing an ex­change of gun­fire in Matu­ra on Tues­day night.

Po­lice say there is no ev­i­dence to date sug­gest­ing mem­bers of the LGBTQ com­mu­ni­ty are be­ing tar­get­ed.

On the same day prison of­fi­cers spot­ted a man at­tempt­ing to throw con­tra­band items in­to the prison com­pound, of­fi­cers found im­pro­vised weapons in the ceil­ing of the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa.