A shoot­ing in east Port-of-Spain to­day end­ed with the death of one man and the wound­ing of two oth­ers, po­lice said.

El­der­ly res­i­dents of Palmiste are call­ing on au­thor­i­ties to in­ves­ti­gate two pri­vate Montes­sori schools op­er­at­ing in their res­i­den­tial Block 1 com­mu­ni­ty, com­plain­ing of per­sis­tent traf­fic con­ges­tion and noise which they say have dis­rupt­ed their qui­et en­joy­ment of their homes.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce is invit­ing busi­ness­es across the coun­try to weigh in on the im­pact of re­cent in­creas­es in al­co­hol du­ties an­nounced in the 2026 Bud­get.

With the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment fast ap­proach­ing, Act­ing Prin­ci­pal of San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School, Wahi­da Mo­hammed-Nar­ine, urged par­ents across the coun­try to sup­port their chil­dren’s aca­d­e­m­ic jour­neys by pro­vid­ing a study sched­ule and mo­ti­vat­ing them to ex­cel.

A 33-year-old Guaico man has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody when he ap­peared be­fore the High Court on Ash Wednes­day to face charges of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion and pos­ses­sion of ap­pa­ra­tus.

​In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the shoot­ing death of a 25-year-old labour­er in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.

Machel Mon­tano has se­cured his place in the record books as the undis­put­ed King of the Road in T&T Car­ni­val, af­ter cop­ping his record 12th Road March ti­tle yes­ter­day.

Af­ter a “Pardy” on the road last year, song­writer An­dre Jef­fers and pro­duc­ers Xplic­it­Mevon (Mevon Sood­een) and Kyle Phillips got their “En­core,” as they suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed their Road March ti­tle this year – and they are elat­ed.

The Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT) has called for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­rup­tion of 2026 Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis’ per­for­mance at Di­manche Gras on Car­ni­val Sun­day night.

Lost Tribe has se­cured the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s Large Band of the Year ti­tle and the over­all Band of the Year crown for Car­ni­val 2026 with its pre­sen­ta­tion of Is­land Cir­cus.

This was the word from mul­ti­ple Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion Band of the Year (Medi­um Cat­e­go­ry) win­ner K2K Al­liance & Part­ners, af­ter win­ning their third straight na­tion­al ti­tle yes­ter­day for their pre­sen­ta­tion of Pollen Hous­es.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don has urged Catholics to make this Lenten sea­son a time of true re­flec­tion, fast­ing and thanks­giv­ing, chal­leng­ing them to go be­yond tra­di­tion and even fast from so­cial me­dia while giv­ing alms to the poor.