Last week, af­ter close to three months in the Caribbean, the nu­clear-pow­ered air­craft car­ri­er USS Ger­ald R Ford left the re­gion.

Less than 24 hours af­ter the TT Cham­ber of Com­merce ex­pressed grave con­cern over the dis­rup­tion to car­go ser­vice on the seabridge, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny failed to de­part Port-of-Spain at its sched­uled 9.30 pm sail­ing on Fri­day.

Res­i­dents of the Sea Trace, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin com­mu­ni­ty—wept open­ly yes­ter­day as they mourned the mur­ders of two men on Fri­day night dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing, which has left them shak­en and scared.

From Oc­to­ber 13 last year to Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment im­ple­ment­ed a list of close to 40 tax mea­sures, which in­clud­ed dou­bling and tripling ex­ist­ing fines and fees to gen­er­ate bil­lions of dol­lars in rev­enue.

Sev­er­al chair­men and may­ors of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled re­gion­al and bor­ough cor­po­ra­tions are com­plain­ing that is­sues with pay­ments from the cen­tral Gov­ern­ment are im­pact­ing the func­tion­ing of their cor­po­ra­tions.

A home­less woman who was beat­en, im­pris­oned and raped for al­leged­ly steal­ing a cell­phone had to be hos­pi­talised fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent on Mon­day (Car­ni­val Mon­day).

A po­lice of­fi­cer with less than a year of ser­vice re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal af­ter falling from the up­per lev­el of the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two dar­ing bur­glar­ies in Siparia and Bar­rack­pore, which led to thou­sands of dol­lars in cash, jew­ellery, and equip­ment stolen over Thurs­day night and Fri­day morn­ing.

Po­lice be­lieve they foiled a planned re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tack when they seized a high-pow­ered ri­fle dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven op­er­a­tion in Cou­va on Thurs­day.

A for­mer prison of­fi­cer has won his law­suit against the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) over be­ing de­nied retroac­tive pro­mo­tion af­ter he re­tired.  

One sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and three firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Se­cure D’ Vibes ex­er­cis­es this week.

One man was ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of cannabis seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the Cen­tral and North­ern Di­vi­sions on Fri­day.