Two days af­ter he told po­lice he was chopped and in need of as­sis­tance, the body of Adri­an Duff was found hog-tied and with sev­er­al chop wounds in the Ca­roni Riv­er.

Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith says he is ea­ger­ly await­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions by school of­fi­cials and po­lice in­to the as­sault on him by Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School stu­dents.

A 17-year-old boy and his el­der­ly grand­fa­ther were tied up and beat­en by masked ban­dits dur­ing a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion at their Pe­nal home ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing. Po­lice said the teenag­er and his 63-year-old grand­fa­ther were at­tacked around 3 am at their home at Mo­ra Dam Road. The teenag­er was out­side the house when he was con­front­ed by five masked men, two of whom had firearms. They struck the boy on the head and an­nounced a rob­bery be­fore forc­ing him in­to the house. He at­tempt­ed to lock the front door, but the sus­pects kicked it open and stormed in­side.

This coun­try was rep­re­sent­ed by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry of­fi­cials at yes­ter­day’s 29th Coun­cil for For­eign and Com­mu­ni­ty Re­la­tions (COF­COR) con­fer­ence, where Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett’s open­ing ad­dress fo­cused on re­gion­al uni­ty as an im­per­a­tive.

The Pa­role Bill, 2026, was passed in the Up­per House on Tues­day, bring­ing the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion one step clos­er to es­tab­lish­ing pro­vi­sions for the ear­ly re­lease of cer­tain pris­on­ers be­fore the com­ple­tion of their sen­tences.

Even a near-nor­mal At­lantic hur­ri­cane sea­son could still bring dev­as­tat­ing flood­ing and dan­ger­ous­ly high tem­per­a­tures to Trinidad and To­ba­go this year, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) warned dur­ing the 20th Na­tion­al Cli­mate Out­look Fo­rum (NCOF) at the T&T Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty Train­ing Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co.

A $10 mil­lion pro­pos­al to con­struct a new fire sta­tion in San Juan has been put for­ward by the San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion, which is warn­ing that the dis­trict is op­er­at­ing with­out ad­e­quate fire pro­tec­tion fol­low­ing the re­moval of its East­ern Main Road fire sta­tion more than a year ago.

The Cuban Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment and, by ex­ten­sion, Cari­com, to raise their voic­es against what he de­scribes as im­mi­nent threats of mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion from the Unit­ed States.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s long­stand­ing cli­mate change ne­go­tia­tor, Kis­han Ku­mars­ingh, has re­signed from the Min­istry of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment fol­low­ing what he de­scribed as “pol­i­cy changes.”

Trinidad and To­ba­go is set to ben­e­fit from a TT$42 mil­lion (US$6 mil­lion) grant from the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment aimed at strength­en­ing the coun­try’s health­care sys­tem over the next two years.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force has beat­en the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles by 141 runs at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um, North Sound, An­tigua, to lift the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Cham­pi­onship.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice says there is a 49% chance of be­low nor­mal hur­ri­cane ac­tiv­i­ty and a 37% chance of be­low nor­mal trop­i­cal storm ac­tiv­i­ty for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s area of in­ter­est dur­ing the 2026 At­lantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son.