Last week, the Sun­day Guardian re­port­ed that be­tween 2014 and 2023, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­ceived up­wards of $25.5 bil­lion from the State.

The hir­ing of con­tract work­ers at the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the may­or’s of­fice, has raised con­cerns among mem­bers of the cor­po­ra­tion.

Three years af­ter the hor­rif­ic Paria div­ing tragedy, the fam­i­lies of the four de­ceased divers and the lone sur­vivor are still cry­ing out for jus­tice and com­pen­sa­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion has firm­ly stat­ed it will not sup­port any gov­ern­ment ini­tia­tive to clas­si­fy in­dis­crim­i­nate shoot­ings as acts of ter­ror­ism—a stance that one crim­i­nol­o­gist warns could neg­a­tive­ly im­pact re­gion­al tourism.

As the search for Able Sea­man Kieron Si­mon con­tin­ued yes­ter­day, Cou­va North MP Ravi Rati­ram called on the Gov­ern­ment to com­mit more re­sources to the on­go­ing res­cue and re­cov­ery ef­forts.

Mem­bers of de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Katzen­jam­mers have their eyes on a three-peat, de­ter­mined to claim a third con­sec­u­tive Medi­um Bands Panora­ma ti­tle at tonight’s fi­nals at the Pa­rade Grounds, near the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, To­ba­go.

The icon­ic Skin­ner Park, his­tor­i­cal home of the open­ing bout in the fight for the Ca­lyp­so monarch, was trans­formed in­to a sea of ca­lyp­so lovers, sweet kaiso and vibes yes­ter­day dur­ing the biggest ca­lyp­so event in San Fer­nan­do—Ca­lyp­so Fi­es­ta.

There was an ex­plo­sion of colour, splen­dour and cre­ativ­i­ty at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, as hun­dreds of chil­dren par­tic­i­pat­ed in the T&T Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) Chil­dren’s Car­ni­val 2025. Pres­i­dent of TTRCS Jill De Bourg said this year’s Car­ni­val was in good hands, as the so­ci­ety has seen an in­crease in chil­dren’s reg­is­ter­ing com­pared to 2024. The theme for this year’s event was “Eu­pho­ria of Mas”.

A Laven­tille man be­came the 51st mur­der vic­tim for the year af­ter he was shot and left for dead in some bush­es on Fri­day morn­ing.

Prepa­ra­tions are un­der­way for a face-to-face meet­ing be­tween U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin, Rus­sia’s deputy for­eign min­is­ter said Sat­ur­day. It marked a clear de­par­ture from West­ern ef­forts to iso­late Moscow over its war in Ukraine.

Su­cre is the 2025 Youth So­ca Cham­pi­on. This was an­nounced by or­gan­is­ers of the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on 2025 in a state­ment on Sat­ur­day.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) lead­ers have ac­cept­ed the rec­om­men­da­tion of the Re­gion­al Ju­di­cial Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (RJLSC) to ap­point the Ja­maican-born ju­rist, Jus­tice Win­ston An­der­son, as the new pres­i­dent of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ).