A 48-year-old pris­on­er has died af­ter an al­leged as­sault at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca, prompt­ing a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has con­demned the theft of crit­i­cal elec­tri­cal wires from the Biche Boost­er Sta­tion, an act of van­dal­ism that has dis­rupt­ed wa­ter sup­ply to sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties in east Trinidad.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day has ques­tioned the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to seek a three-month ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SOE), ar­gu­ing that the move co­in­cides with grow­ing pub­lic crit­i­cism and protest ac­tiv­i­ty rather than sole­ly ef­forts to com­bat crime.

The De­part­ment of Nat­ur­al Re­sources and Forestry (DNRF) is warn­ing sawmill and fur­ni­ture shop op­er­a­tors that fail­ure to ob­tain the re­quired li­cences and per­mits could re­sult in hefti­er fines and prison sen­tences, as the Fi­nance Bill 2026 pro­pos­es in­creased penal­ties for sev­er­al forestry-re­lat­ed of­fences.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has en­dorsed con­tin­ued ef­forts to strength­en law en­force­ment part­ner­ships across the re­gion as he out­lined the threat posed by il­le­gal gun traf­fick­ing in the Caribbean.

A 26-year-old Sea Lots man is ex­pect­ed to be ques­tioned and charged af­ter he was held in con­nec­tion with the theft of $12,000 worth of un­der­ground telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­ble on Tues­day morn­ing.

A 47-year-old land­scap­er was shot af­ter he drove to San Juan to meet a po­ten­tial client who con­tact­ed his com­pa­ny by tele­phone on Mon­day morn­ing.

Pope Leo XIV has of­fi­cial­ly ac­cept­ed the res­ig­na­tion of Bish­op Clyde Har­vey as Bish­op of St. George’s in Grena­da, bring­ing an end to his tenure lead­ing the Catholic Dio­cese in Grena­da.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to clear­ly ar­tic­u­late why there is a need to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency, rais­ing an alarm over why the mea­sure needs to be con­tin­ued.

Po­lice are prob­ing the mur­der of a man whose burnt body was dis­cov­ered in­side a ve­hi­cle along Moo­nan Road in Waller­field over the week­end. 

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) pres­i­dent Regi­nald Mac Lean is warn­ing the To­ba­go MPs about vot­ing in favour of an ex­ten­sion to the on­go­ing state of emer­gency (SoE).

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Dr Jack Warn­er is warn­ing that while a State of Emer­gency may help a coun­try sur­vive pe­ri­ods of cri­sis, so­ci­eties can­not thrive in­def­i­nite­ly un­der emer­gency rule.