East­ern Cred­it Union has con­firmed re­ports of a shoot­ing in­ci­dent that oc­curred near its Barataria branch on Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 24, 2025.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots po­lit­i­cal leader Wat­son Duke is call­ing on all To­bag­o­ni­ans ag­griev­ed by the Far­ley Au­gus­tine-led To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly to be pre­pared to treat mem­bers of the ex­ec­u­tive in the same man­ner as he was treat­ed.

A video cur­rent­ly cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia pur­port­ing to show se­nior of­fi­cers at­tend­ing the TTPS Me­dia Brief­ing to­day fail­ing to re­ply to a ques­tion from the me­dia is fake, the Po­lice Ser­vice is as­sert­ing.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can Com­mis­sion on Hu­man Rights (IACHR) Fri­day ex­pressed alarm at the con­tin­u­ing de­te­ri­o­ra­tion of cit­i­zen se­cu­ri­ty and the in­crease in vi­o­lence by armed gangs in Haiti.

Hamas an­nounced Fri­day that it would re­lease four fe­male sol­diers held hostage for 15 months in Gaza, as part of an ex­change for dozens of Pales­tin­ian pris­on­ers laid out in its cease­fire agree­ment with Is­rael. An ad­vo­ca­cy group rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies of hostages con­firmed the iden­ti­ties of the cap­tive Is­raelis to be re­leased on Sat­ur­day.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds has is­sued a third de­ten­tion or­der un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2024, amidst ris­ing threats to pub­lic safe­ty and es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence against prison of­fi­cers.

T&T's beloved pan­man Joshua Re­grel­lo will sub­mit his Guin­ness World Record bid on Mon­day for the longest steel­pan marathon, which he com­plet­ed last De­cem­ber.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed says it wel­comes the move by Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed to ac­quire the ex­per­tise of an in­de­pen­dent com­pa­ny to aid in sal­vage and re­cov­ery ef­forts at Rig 110.

Of­fi­cers of the North­ern East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) seized quan­ti­ties of il­le­gal nar­cotics dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions on Thurs­day.

The Min­istry of Health is urg­ing the pop­u­la­tion to re­frain from eat­ing Gi­ant African Snails, warn­ing of se­ri­ous health com­pli­ca­tions that could re­sult in­clud­ing menin­gi­tis, which can be fa­tal in chil­dren.

The Mi­nor­i­ty Coun­cil in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has crit­i­cized the Sec­re­tary for Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties & Trans­porta­tion, Coun­cil­lor Tashia Bur­ris, for fail­ing to dis­close the pri­vate in­vestor set to ben­e­fit from some $9.3 mil­lion in fund­ing al­lo­cat­ed to the To­ba­go Rhythm & Soul Fes­ti­val.

Po­lice said the boy's moth­er, Geneiel George, was at her Chris­t­ian Av­enue Ex­ten­sion, Windy Hill, Arou­ca, at around 11.45 pm when a man tried to break open the win­dow to get in­to the house.