The moth­er of a woman who was killed along­side her ten-year-old nephew af­ter a truck crashed in­to their car in Man­zanil­la in 2019, has been award­ed over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

The woman ar­rest­ed for the fa­tal shoot­ing of Steve Ghany Jnr may spend the week­end in prison un­less the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion, Roger Gas­pard, in­structs that she be re­leased based on her claim of self-de­fence.

Op­po­si­tion MP Kei­th Scot­land is rais­ing fresh con­cerns about the coun­try’s es­ca­lat­ing homi­cide rate, warn­ing that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) has failed to curb se­ri­ous crime.

A cur­ry duck com­pe­ti­tion host­ed by the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) at La Ve­ga Es­tate in Gran Cou­va yes­ter­day, did not dis­rupt nor­mal polic­ing op­er­a­tions, of­fi­cials said.

An­oth­er woman has been added to the coun­try’s grow­ing mur­der toll, af­ter an au­top­sy on Wednes­day con­firmed that the body found along the North Coast Road in Mara­cas on April 1 was that of Oni­ka Lo­cario.

A Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der has been is­sued for Ja­hone Rolton Teles­ford, al­so known as “Fri­day,” un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the ur­gent as­sis­tance of the pub­lic in lo­cat­ing 13-year-old Amiee Soomai.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will make an of­fi­cial vis­it to Guyana fol­low­ing dis­cus­sions with Pres­i­dent Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, where both lead­ers agreed on a wide-rang­ing de­vel­op­ment, trade and eco­nom­ic agen­da aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana.

With the cease­fire in Iran still shaky, U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance head­ed Fri­day to Pak­istan for high-lev­el talks with Iran­ian of­fi­cials, as Is­rael and Hezbol­lah mil­i­tants trad­ed fire and Tehran main­tained its stran­gle­hold on the Strait of Hor­muz.

Their dra­mat­ic grand fi­nale fast ap­proach­ing, Artemis II’s as­tro­nauts aimed for a splash­down in the Pa­cif­ic on Fri­day to close out hu­man­i­ty’s first voy­age to the moon in more than a half-cen­tu­ry.

Guyana's Pres­i­dent Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali is urg­ing T&T and Guyana to come to­geth­er for 72 hours to fix the prob­lems which cur­rent­ly stop the coun­tries from fi­nal­is­ing a strong eco­nom­ic part­ner­ship.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of at­tempt­ing to take cred­it for the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s im­proved fi­nan­cial per­for­mance, in a state­ment is­sued a short while ago.