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.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has ac­cused the PNM’s po­lit­i­cal leader of fail­ing to act on what he de­scribes as a “cor­rupt and crim­i­nal el­e­ment” with­in the par­ty, as the in­ter­nal dis­pute in his con­stituen­cy es­ca­lates in­to a pub­lic con­fronta­tion.

Two Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment (TTR) sol­diers res­cued five civil­ians who got in­to dif­fi­cul­ty in the wa­ters off Blan­chisseuse Beach on Sat­ur­day, ac­cord­ing to a Face­book post by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment.

Farm­ers in Va­len­cia are rais­ing alarm over il­le­gal squat­ting, prae­di­al lar­ce­ny and a lack of ba­sic in­fra­struc­ture, with some claim­ing armed squat­ters are bull­doz­ing agri­cul­tur­al lands and sell­ing lots with­out per­mis­sion.

The Caribbean’s oceans are deeply con­nect­ed to the lives of the peo­ple who call this re­gion home. That con­nec­tion is both his­toric and con­tem­po­rary. No­bel lau­re­ate Derek Wal­cott fa­mous­ly wrote that “the sea is his­to­ry” when speak­ing about these is­lands. To­day, the oceans con­tin­ue to play a cru­cial role in Caribbean life, sus­tain­ing food se­cu­ri­ty, fish­eries, tourism and trans­porta­tion.