De­fence at­tor­ney Steven Maw­er is ques­tion­ing why his teenage client was is­sued a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) in­stead of be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm found at a house he and oth­ers were at two weeks ago.

Four Venezue­lan na­tion­als, in­clud­ing two mi­nors, were res­cued from a sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tion in Rio Claro on Sat­ur­day, while a busi­ness­man was ar­rest­ed and de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has moved to clar­i­fy re­ports re­gard­ing the repa­tri­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als who sought asy­lum in the Unit­ed King­dom, stress­ing that the re­turns did not hap­pen sud­den­ly and were not a sur­prise to the Gov­ern­ment.

For­mer Peo­ple's Nation­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley has chal­lenged Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to pro­vide ev­i­dence sup­port­ing her claim that the PNM head­quar­ters was built with “drug mon­ey.”

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke has been hired by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) as a con­sul­tant in hu­man re­sources and in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions, both he and the com­pa­ny have con­firmed.

The Gov­ern­ment has dis­missed claims by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) that a state land scan­dal is un­fold­ing.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s crit­i­cal en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture re­mains se­cure de­spite ris­ing glob­al ten­sions and the re­cent re­moval of a Unit­ed States radar sys­tem and mil­i­tary per­son­nel from To­ba­go.

With the launch of the T&T Ocelot Project, con­ser­va­tion ef­forts are ramp­ing up, sup­port­ed by new­ly in­stalled trail cam­eras to mon­i­tor the elu­sive wild cats.

The 36-year-old woman found float­ing in the sea in To­ba­go ear­li­er this month drowned, but stran­gu­la­tion was al­so a fac­tor, po­lice have con­firmed.

The Child­hood Jus­tice Col­lec­tive (CJC) is call­ing for in­ter­ven­tion by the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al as ques­tions mount over ques­tion­able spend­ing and gov­er­nance at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

An Arou­ca man plead­ed guilty af­ter be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of drugs for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, days af­ter he was found with mar­i­jua­na, ec­sta­sy and mol­ly in his home.

A 43-year-old man from Bourg Mu­la­tresse has been con­vict­ed of mur­der­ing his girl­friend's broth­er and wound­ing her nephew dur­ing a fight in 2021.