A fe­male pris­ons of­fi­cer was ar­rest­ed at the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca yes­ter­day, af­ter she was caught al­leged­ly try­ing to smug­gle in a quan­ti­ty of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles.

A 23-year-old Venezue­lan woman who ini­tial­ly told po­lice she found a new­born aban­doned in a card­board box in South Oropouche, but lat­er ad­mit­ted she was the ba­by’s moth­er, is con­tin­u­ing to as­sist with the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Garbage has been pil­ing up across Va­len­cia for more than two weeks af­ter the con­trac­tor re­spon­si­ble for col­lec­tion stopped ser­vic­ing the dis­trict, cit­ing the need for a high­er pay­ment to deal with the grow­ing num­ber of squat­ting com­mu­ni­ties.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley ar­rived in Venezuela on Mon­day for talks with act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez as the two coun­tries seek to deep­en their bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions.

A man iden­ti­fied on­ly as Ri­car­do was killed by po­lice on Sun­day af­ter a con­fronta­tion with po­lice who tried to ar­rest him for hav­ing an igua­na out­side of hunt­ing sea­son.

Po­lice re­port­ed that Ku­mar Balkissoon was found dead by his broth­er at his home on Yu­catan Road, Waller­field, Ari­ma.

A fe­male pris­ons of­fi­cer with more than 19 years of ser­vice was ar­rest­ed at the Gold­en Grove Prison on Mon­day morn­ing af­ter she was al­leged­ly found with a quan­ti­ty of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has called on the Prime Min­is­ter and the Gov­ern­ment to re­con­sid­er their re­fusal to con­sult with the Steel Work­ers' Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) re­gard­ing the planned re­open­ing of the for­mer Arcelor­Mit­tal steel plant at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) has named sev­en new pro­fes­sors whose work spans cli­mate re­silience, can­cer care, blood safe­ty, and the cul­tur­al life of the His­pan­ic Caribbean. The ap­point­ments, ef­fec­tive June 10, 2026, were an­nounced last Fri­day from the UWI Re­gion­al Head­quar­ters in Ja­maica.

A 23-year-old Venezue­lan woman who ini­tial­ly told po­lice she found a new­born aban­doned in a card­board box in South Oropouche has since ad­mit­ted she is the ba­by’s moth­er. She is as­sist­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tors but is not in cus­tody, and po­lice have not ruled out charges. Of­fi­cers said she con­cealed the birth and filed a false re­port.

Es­capee Jose Brit­to was ar­rest­ed more than a month af­ter he fled the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC).

The en­tire ex­ec­u­tive of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy has re­signed, mark­ing a dra­mat­ic es­ca­la­tion in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal dis­pute in­volv­ing MP Bri­an Man­ning and con­stituen­cy chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is.