Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­voked the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) is­sued against dance­hall artiste Joseph “Medz Boss” Oliviere.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice (TTPrS) has in­ter­cept­ed a pack­age con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items that was thrown over the perime­ter wall of the Port-of-Spain Prison.

A sol­dier who was placed un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter be­ing charged with re­ceiv­ing and har­bour­ing a Venezue­lan woman for ex­ploita­tion has been grant­ed $350,000 bail.

Cel­e­brat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­de­pen­dence can take many forms, from wav­ing the na­tion­al flag to dress­ing in the coun­try’s colours of red, white and black.

Three new joint po­lice-mil­i­tary se­cu­ri­ty posts are be­ing wel­comed by To­bag­o­ni­ans, with Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine al­ready ad­vo­cat­ing for a fourth fa­cil­i­ty on the is­land.

Hours af­ter Sea Lots res­i­dent Ed­win “Teo” Richard­son was killed by a man he had grown up with in the neigh­bour­hood yes­ter­day, his rel­a­tives were urg­ing calm and ap­peal­ing to res­i­dents to avoid re­tal­ia­to­ry vi­o­lence.

As po­lice-in­volved killings con­tin­ue to rise, re­newed con­cerns have emerged over the ab­sence of body cam­era footage in in­ves­ti­ga­tions, de­spite reg­u­la­tions re­quir­ing of­fi­cers to wear the de­vices.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley has bro­ken his si­lence on the tur­moil with­in the par­ty’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy, call­ing for “com­mon sense” and a speedy res­o­lu­tion to the dis­pute.

The Gov­ern­ment is keep­ing the date and de­tails of the 2026/2027 Bud­get firm­ly un­der wraps, with both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo de­clin­ing to shed any light on when the fis­cal pack­age will be pre­sent­ed or what it will con­tain.

While some cit­i­zens with chron­ic ail­ments are be­ing told their pre­scribed drugs are un­avail­able at pub­lic hos­pi­tal phar­ma­cies, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says his min­istry is work­ing to ad­dress pro­cure­ment is­sues af­fect­ing the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP).

A spe­cial­ist doc­tor has scored a le­gal vic­to­ry over be­ing found li­able for a man be­ing born with cere­bral pal­sy af­ter he (the doc­tor) de­liv­ered him over two decades ago. 

As the coun­try pre­pares for Mon­day’s 64th In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, the heads of two key law en­force­ment agen­cies say they are ready to re­spond to any threat, with a re­cent se­cu­ri­ty as­sess­ment find­ing a “very low” threat lev­el for the na­tion­al event.