The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has re­ject­ed what Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Ret’d Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al de­scribed as the Gov­ern­ment’s “best and fi­nal of­fer” to set­tle out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor ar­rears and is in­stead propos­ing more cash pay­ments and full cash set­tle­ments for re­tirees.

For the first time since the 2023 launch of the e-ap­point­ment plat­form, man­aged by the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion un­der the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, cit­i­zens are now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­prece­dent­ed de­lays in se­cur­ing pass­port ap­point­ments.

Next week, the San Juan Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SJL­RC) may find it­self with­out a roof over its head, as the cor­po­ra­tion has been giv­en no­tice to va­cate the ground floor of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) Plaza in Aranguez, which it has been rent­ing as its of­fice for decades.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 709 peo­ple for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of­fences in 2025, mark­ing the high­est num­ber of DUI-re­lat­ed ar­rests record­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go since 2019.

While her fam­i­ly was forced to ad­just to her ab­sence, the en­su­ing years have not dulled the pain and loss as they con­tin­ue to ques­tion what re­al­ly hap­pened to her.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela have agreed to con­tin­ue shar­ing in­for­ma­tion and strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion on the man­age­ment of po­ten­tial cross-bor­der hy­dro­car­bon spills fol­low­ing a bi­lat­er­al meet­ing held on May 22.

A 24-year-old Good­wood man has been charged with the mur­der of two-year-old An­ge­lo Plaza, near­ly two weeks af­ter the tod­dler’s dis­ap­pear­ance trig­gered an is­land-wide search op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela have agreed to con­tin­ue shar­ing in­for­ma­tion and strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion on the man­age­ment of po­ten­tial cross-bor­der hy­dro­car­bon spills fol­low­ing a bi­lat­er­al meet­ing held on May 22.

A co­or­di­nat­ed mul­ti-agency an­ti-il­lic­it trade ex­er­cise, dubbed Op­er­a­tion DUN­WICH, re­sult­ed in the seizure of over 3,000 il­lic­it and un­cer­ti­fied items dur­ing in­spec­tions con­duct­ed across the South­ern and South West­ern Di­vi­sions on Fri­day, May 22.

In­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion have led to the ar­rest of three peo­ple and the seizure of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

Ka­ia Sealy says she is “shocked and deeply dis­tressed” by re­ports that she is fac­ing crim­i­nal charges in con­nec­tion with the fa­tal shoot­ing of her part­ner, Joshua Sama­roo, in­sist­ing she re­mains in­no­cent and has been wrong­ly por­trayed.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it has car­ried out a con­trolled re­lease of wa­ter from its Run­nemede Tank in To­ba­go as fire­fight­ers bat­tled bush fires in the Con­go Hill, Mo­ri­ah area.