The Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor has halt­ed the award of $3.4 bil­lion in Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­tracts to 11 com­pa­nies, just hours af­ter a Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter de­fend­ed the process.

Two days af­ter a con­tro­ver­sy erupt­ed, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) moved against one of its own, re­mov­ing Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates from the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC).

Gold Com­man­der of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin, says the num­ber of peo­ple de­tained so far un­der this SoE has al­ready sur­passed the num­ber ar­rest­ed dur­ing the en­tire­ty of last SoE.

Days af­ter a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) was is­sued for a Guapo teenag­er for firearm of­fences and sus­pect­ed gang af­fil­i­a­tion, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cerned by the in­volve­ment of chil­dren in se­ri­ous crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Thir­teen more de­ten­tion or­ders have been is­sued un­der reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, in­clud­ing one for a de­tainee who as­sist­ed a cor­rupt mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice in in­ter­fer­ing with ev­i­dence linked to a transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime group.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing ap­pli­cants for firearm user’s li­cences (FULs) to be pa­tient as the nec­es­sary back­ground checks, in­ves­ti­ga­tions and process­es are com­plet­ed, not­ing that while they are free to ap­ply for a per­mit, they are not en­ti­tled to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly re­ceive one.

Robert “Peb­bles” Tardieu was a man to whom fam­i­ly meant every­thing, for whom oc­ca­sions were a cel­e­bra­tion of life—and he had a spe­cial tra­di­tion with his el­der broth­er Der­rick “Stones” Tardieu, which said every­thing about his love for fam­i­ly.

Sec­re­tary of En­vi­ron­ment Dar­ren Hen­ry says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has no in­ten­tion of des­ig­nat­ing any beach ex­clu­sive­ly for jet ski use.

A fe­male pas­sen­ger col­lapsed aboard the Buc­coo Reef yes­ter­day, as it made its way on the 6.30 am sail­ing from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

A hand­ful of health­care work­ers turned up for last night’s can­dle­light vig­il as part of their on­go­ing wage dis­pute with the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty and the Min­istry of Health.

Con­trac­tor Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices (SIS) has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil over a long-run­ning dis­pute with the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) in­volv­ing the con­tro­ver­sial Beetham Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

An Air Guard mem­ber has lost his le­gal chal­lenge against the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) over his dis­charge for al­leged dis­ci­pli­nary breach­es and poor per­for­mance.