Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­tained its Tier 2 rank­ing in the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of State’s 2026 Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Re­port.

A 42-year-old Wood­brook busi­ness­woman has sued the State, al­leg­ing that she was ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed for de­fraud­ing a hard­ware store of more than $850,000.

The State has been or­dered to pay al­most $180,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a man from Princes Town, who claimed that he was ex­tort­ed by a group of po­lice of­fi­cers. 

KI­TAKYUSHU – Japan’s au­to­mo­tive re­cy­cling in­dus­try is turn­ing end-of-life ve­hi­cles in­to valu­able in­dus­tri­al re­sources, but Trinidad and To­ba­go’s au­to­mo­tive deal­ers say the eco­nom­ics could make such a mod­el dif­fi­cult to repli­cate at home.

The first time flood­wa­ters in­vad­ed Kevin Hard­uar’s Wood­land, South Trinidad home, his fam­i­ly was asleep.

As the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2027 Bud­get looms on Mon­day, stake­hold­ers are call­ing for speed­i­er im­ple­men­ta­tion of projects.

Six days be­fore Pas­sion Desserts told cus­tomers that its stores and op­er­a­tions were of­fi­cial­ly closed, Pas­sion Desserts Lim­it­ed had al­ready been struck off the Com­pa­nies Reg­is­ter.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has come out in de­fence of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team, led by Sham­sudeen Ayube and is warn­ing teenagers who choose to be­have like adults that they can­not ex­pect to fall back on their sta­tus as chil­dren when the law in­ter­venes.

With the na­tion­al bud­get just days away, three Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have out­lined dif­fer­ent pri­or­i­ties, with Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee hop­ing for enough mon­ey to build more homes, Phillip Alexan­der push­ing to meet the Gov­ern­ment's hous­ing tar­get, and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der putting the pro­tec­tion of lives ahead of his min­istry's fi­nan­cial al­lo­ca­tion.

A man be­lieved to be a Ja­maican na­tion­al was killed in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day morn­ing, while an­oth­er man be­lieved to be his com­pa­tri­ot was de­tained by po­lice in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

An­tho­ny Daryl Bap­tiste of Don Av­enue, Va­len­cia, died on the spot when he lost con­trol of his ve­hi­cle, crashed in­to a kerb wall and then the perime­ter wall of an Evan­gel­i­cal Church along Old Va­len­cia Road, Va­len­cia, on Sat­ur­day evening.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is de­fend­ing po­lice over­time spend­ing, say­ing the Po­lice Ser­vice was not giv­en enough of­fi­cers and re­sources in the past to prop­er­ly car­ry out its du­ties.