An 18-year-old Diego Mar­tin man is the coun­try’s lat­est mur­der vic­tim when he was gunned down on Mon­day night.

The state of emer­gency has been ex­tend­ed for a fur­ther three months, af­ter the mo­tion was passed in Par­lia­ment on Mon­day night with full op­po­si­tion sup­port.

The Na­tion­al Em­blems of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025 passed with unan­i­mous sup­port of the gov­ern­ment and the op­po­si­tion in the Low­er House late on Mon­day night. The law re­places Colum­bus’ three ships—Niña, Pin­ta, and San­ta Maria—on the Coat of Arms with the Steel­pan, the na­tion­al in­stru­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go. 

A beefed-up fire­fight­ing force was staged around Los An­ge­les to at­tack flare-ups or new blazes and anx­ious res­i­dents were pre­pared for the worst as dan­ger­ous winds were ex­pect­ed to build Tues­day, a week af­ter two mas­sive in­fer­nos de­stroyed thou­sands of homes and killed at least 24 peo­ple.

An uniden­ti­fied man was killed on Mon­day night, just a stone's throw away from the Four Roads Po­lice Sta­tion in Diego Mar­tin.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says some po­lice of­fi­cers are now pre­tend­ing to close sta­tions to hide from crim­i­nals.

Shum­ba James, a for­mer State wit­ness and sus­pect in oth­er cas­es, has been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a State of Emer­gency de­ten­tion or­der is­sued by Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds.

The moth­er of a mur­dered Bel­mont woman says she is leav­ing vengeance in the hands of God, as she re­mains deeply hurt and shak­en fol­low­ing her daugh­ter’s mur­der yes­ter­day.

Ten-time Road March win­ner Machel Mon­tano has tak­en so­ca mu­sic one step fur­ther in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, af­ter be­com­ing the first so­ca artiste to per­form at the fa­mous­ly known NPR Tiny Desk Con­cert se­ries. 

Fif­teen days in­to the State of Emer­gency (SoE), the po­lice say they have made sig­nif­i­cant in­roads in­to ad­dress­ing gang vi­o­lence, al­though more can be done.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is still ex­press­ing grave con­cern about the con­tin­ued ex­is­tence of a gun amnesty clause in the State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions, de­spite Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds say­ing it is not some­thing Gov­ern­ment is pur­su­ing.

Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus, Robert Le Hunte and Mar­i­ano Browne, far from rep­re­sent­ing any sig­nif­i­cant fac­tion of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), do not re­flect the broad­er uni­ty with­in the par­ty and their crit­i­cisms are iso­lat­ed and lack the col­lec­tive weight nec­es­sary to sug­gest any frac­ture with­in the par­ty, says the PNM Women's League.