Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a for­mer na­tion­al foot­baller with firearms and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an ex­er­cise con­duct­ed un­der the State of Emer­gency in the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­men are op­er­at­ing as if a cur­few is in ef­fect, says Bal­dath Ma­haraj, head of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC).

A 72-year-old pen­sion­er is among three fam­i­ly mem­bers ar­rest­ed dur­ing a State of Emer­gency raid in Low­lands, To­ba­go.

In a New Year’s mes­sage shared via so­cial me­dia, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine used a vi­sion board style to high­light his ma­jor goals for the com­ing year.

Bar­ba­dos' Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley as­sumes the role of CARI­COM chair start­ing to­day (Jan­u­ary 1, 2025), be­gin­ning her six-month stint in the of­fice.

A Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert was ac­ti­vat­ed for Trinidad at 10:30 am on New Year’s Day, and will re­main in ef­fect un­til Fri­day evening, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

The sus­pect in the New Or­leans truck crash that killed 10 peo­ple and in­jured 30 rev­ellers in New Or­leans on New Year’s Day was killed af­ter a fire­fight with po­lice, law en­force­ment of­fi­cials told the AP.

They say gun­men broke in­to his Laven­tille Road home around 1:30 am on New Year’s Day and opened fire.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the brazen mur­der of at­tor­ney-at-law Ran­dall War­ren Hec­tor, 43, who was fa­tal­ly shot last night af­ter leav­ing the Stan­more Av­enue Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist Church.

A to­tal of 46 peo­ple were de­tained by the au­thor­i­ties dur­ing the first 24 hours of the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Some 80 pen­sion­ers from Beetham Gar­dens were treat­ed to an end-of-year lun­cheon by the TTPS yes­ter­day.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Win­ford James yes­ter­day crit­i­cised Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the an­nounce­ment of a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency (SoE), say­ing he could un­der­stand why the Op­po­si­tion Leader sub­se­quent­ly la­belled the crime fight­ing tac­tic as “po­lit­i­cal gim­mick­ry.”