Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first trans­gen­der sen­a­tor, Jow­elle De Souza, has de­fend­ed Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s crit­i­cism of for­mer US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s poli­cies, par­tic­u­lar­ly on gen­der re­as­sign­ment surg­eries for chil­dren.

Some 18 ca­lyp­so­ni­ans will bat­tle for the pres­tige of be­ing this year’s NACC Young King next month, as the Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee (NACC) has an­nounced the fi­nal­ists for the 2025 Young King Ca­lyp­so Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 24 peo­ple and seized two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing sev­er­al on­go­ing State of Emer­gency Op­er­a­tions in the Cen­tral, North­ern Cen­tral and Port of Spain Di­vi­sions on Mon­day and Tues­day this week.

The Cen­tral Di­vi­sion­al Po­lice re­ceived praise for their swift ac­tion on Tues­day night fol­low­ing a rob­bery at a gro­cery store on Wel­come Road, Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas.

The Colom­bian bor­der vil­lage of Tres Bo­cas has be­come a ghost town as res­i­dents flee to neigh­bor­ing Venezuela to es­cape a new wave of vi­o­lence in Colom­bia’s Cata­tum­bo re­gion that has left at least 80 peo­ple dead and dis­placed thou­sands.

With­in hours of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s in­au­gu­ra­tion, the new ad­min­is­tra­tion took down the Span­ish-lan­guage ver­sion of the of­fi­cial White House web­site.

Since its re­lease ap­prox­i­mate­ly one month ago, Akhen­aton Lewis’ (Yung Bred­da) The Great­est Bend Over has sky­rock­et­ed to the num­ber-one spot on Ap­ple Mu­sic’s top songs from T&T. It al­so gained over five mil­lion views on YouTube.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has faced scathing crit­i­cism over her con­tro­ver­sial re­marks about for­mer Unit­ed States pres­i­dent Joe Biden, whose ad­min­is­tra­tion she de­scribed as a “dis­as­ter”.

The So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al’s De­part­ment and the Chief State So­lic­i­tor are be­ing de­scribed as “in­ept” and “in­com­pe­tent” as it re­lates to a miss­ing case file.

The le­gal team for the claimants in the saga of the miss­ing case file has heav­i­ly crit­i­cised the find­ings of the re­port in­to the mat­ter call­ing it a “damp squib” and claim­ing it may now cost the State $25 mil­lion in dam­ages.

The next PNM gov­ern­ment will pri­ori­tise clos­ing ex­ist­ing le­gal loop­holes that per­mit com­pa­nies that shut down not to pay work­ers. There are plans to have a labour in­spec­tor among au­tho­rised of­fi­cers in­ves­ti­gat­ing the traf­fick­ing of per­sons.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has launched a spe­cial au­dit in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to wa­ter-truck­ing ser­vices at the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion fol­low­ing nu­mer­ous ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties and con­cerns raised dur­ing an en­quiry in­to com­plaints about an al­leged il­le­gal wa­ter-truck­ing scheme by cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ees.