Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ex­tend the sec­ond State of Emer­gency (SoE) for an­oth­er three months, cit­ing thou­sands of po­lice op­er­a­tions, ar­rests and crim­i­nal charges as ev­i­dence the SoE mea­sures have helped law en­force­ment dis­rupt crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and make sig­nif­i­cant progress in the fight against crime.

The coali­tion of 13 in­de­pen­dent trade unions and the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) have sharply crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­fence of con­tro­ver­sial State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions re­strict­ing pub­lic as­sem­blies with­in 500 me­tres of 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions, ar­gu­ing that democ­ra­cy can­not be re­duced to a cal­cu­la­tion of land space.

Richard Re­nalis has been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of 12-year-old Erin school­girl Mer­cedez Layne.

A 25-year-old Las Lo­mas man who stabbed his preg­nant moth­er to death in 2019 be­cause he was an­gry over be­ing ne­glect­ed as a child will have to serve al­most a decade longer in prison be­fore he is re­leased.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA), Al­lan Fer­gu­son, says one rec­om­men­da­tion to ad­dress cop­per theft is to cen­tralise all scrap yards in or­der to bet­ter mon­i­tor deal­ers’ in­ven­to­ry.

Ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Ch­agua­nas Mar­ket who fail to pay out­stand­ing mar­ket fees risk los­ing their vend­ing spaces, ac­cord­ing to Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed.

A 30-year-old man was yes­ter­day be­ing treat­ed at hos­pi­tal for gun­shot in­juries fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in Moru­ga.

An­gos­tu­ra has pro­vid­ed fi­nan­cial sup­port to the Ja­maica So­ci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty to An­i­mals (JSP­CA) to as­sist dogs in its care and sup­port com­mu­ni­ties still re­cov­er­ing from the im­pact of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa in 2025.

Some com­mu­ni­ca­tions in­fra­struc­ture in To­ba­go has been com­pro­mised af­ter the Flagstaff Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Tow­er in Char­lot­teville sus­tained ma­jor dam­age dur­ing heavy rains and strong winds, prompt­ing an emer­gency re­sponse by the To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (TEMA).

The U.S. gov­ern­ment on Thurs­day an­nounced sanc­tions against Cu­ba’s state-owned oil and gas com­pa­ny in a move some ex­perts say will on­ly deep­en the is­land’s crises and hit vul­ner­a­ble Cubans the hard­est.

Two fe­male pen­sion­ers were robbed by bal­a­cla­va-clad ban­dits dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Princes Town on Wednes­day night.

The largest World Cup in tour­na­ment his­to­ry kicked off Thurs­day with co-host Mex­i­co tak­ing on South Africa in the open­ing match.