A Trinida­di­an is one of four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) na­tion­als, among 17 for­eign­ers, against whom the De­part­ment of Jus­tice says it has filed de­nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion ac­tions in var­i­ous US dis­trict courts, ac­cus­ing them of se­ri­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing sex­u­al abuse of a mi­nor, wire and bank fraud and dis­trib­ut­ing drugs whole­sale with­out a li­cence.

A To­ba­go man is fight­ing for his life at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Bloody Bay on Mon­day evening.

Holy Name Con­vent Port-of-Spain has opened a con­fi­den­tial com­plaints por­tal for peo­ple wish­ing to sub­mit con­cerns and in­for­ma­tion as part of an in­de­pen­dent re­view in­to al­le­ga­tions and ex­pe­ri­ences shared by mem­bers of the school com­mu­ni­ty and the wider pub­lic.

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.

Trini­bad en­ter­tain­er Kashif Sankar, bet­ter known as Kman 6ixx, is ap­peal­ing to au­thor­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go and across the Caribbean to re­con­sid­er re­stric­tions that have pre­vent­ed him from per­form­ing at events in re­cent years.

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a fur­ther three months, the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is warn­ing that the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion could keep Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der emer­gency pow­ers for years by ex­ploit­ing what it de­scribes as a con­sti­tu­tion­al loop­hole.

A marathon de­bate is ex­pect­ed to­day in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment presents the Fi­nance Bill 2026—con­tain­ing in­creas­es to var­i­ous fines and penal­ties and grant­i­ng cer­tain con­ces­sions—fol­lowed by a mo­tion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for an­oth­er three months.

In re­sponse to re­cent con­cerns raised with­in its com­mu­ni­ty about prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall, Holy Name Con­vent Port-of-Spain has an­nounced the es­tab­lish­ment of an In­de­pen­dent Re­view Com­mit­tee and a Pro­fes­sion­al Care Unit. The Board of Man­age­ment out­lined the steps be­ing tak­en to en­sure trans­paren­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and emo­tion­al sup­port dur­ing this pe­ri­od.

The head of the Prison Of­fi­cers' As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) says chron­ic staffing short­ages with­in the prison sys­tem are un­der­min­ing of­fi­cers' abil­i­ty to pre­vent vi­o­lence and pro­tect in­mates, fol­low­ing the killing of a pris­on­er at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Arou­ca.

Four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) na­tion­als - in­clud­ing a Trinida­di­an - are among 17 for­eign­ers, against whom the De­part­ment of Jus­tice says it has filed de­nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion ac­tions in var­i­ous US dis­trict courts, ac­cus­ing them of se­ri­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing sex­u­al abuse of a mi­nor, wire and bank fraud and dis­trib­ut­ing drugs whole­sale with­out a li­cence.

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.