Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana have joined with the Unit­ed States and three oth­er coun­tries in sup­port of Pana­ma’s sov­er­eign­ty, amid con­cerns over what has been de­scribed as tar­get­ed eco­nom­ic pres­sure linked to Chi­na.

De­spite the pos­si­bil­i­ty of in­creased de­mand for flights in­to the re­gion, Caribbean Tourism Or­ga­ni­za­tion chair­man Ian Good­hill-Edghill is warn­ing that the cur­rent spike in jet fu­el prices could se­ri­ous­ly im­pact tourism. Jet fu­el prices across the globe have surged due to the US/Is­rael-Iran con­flict, dou­bling air­lines’ fu­el bills and forc­ing them to in­crease tick­et prices, cut routes and ca­pac­i­ty, and in­tro­duce fu­el sur­charges in some in­stances.

Three men ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do High Court Mas­ter joint­ly charged with two of­fences aris­ing out of an in­ci­dent on April 20.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter and Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal joined work­ers in a cleanup ex­er­cise at Palmiste Park to­day, as part of the Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS).

The Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates said Tues­day it will leave OPEC ef­fec­tive May 1, strip­ping the oil car­tel of one of its largest pro­duc­ers and fur­ther weak­en­ing its lever­age over glob­al oil sup­plies and prices.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a break-in in­volv­ing a sit­ting sen­a­tor’s ve­hi­cle at a su­per­mar­ket carpark in Cas­cade on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Don­ald and Mela­nia Trump both called for ABC to fire Jim­my Kim­mel on Mon­day af­ter a joke last week in which the late-night com­ic de­scribed the first la­dy as hav­ing “the glow of an ex­pec­tant wid­ow.”

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has giv­en Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an 80 per cent rat­ing for her first year in of­fice, de­scrib­ing her lead­er­ship of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) as “out­stand­ing” and re­silient.

One year ago to­day, on April 28, 2025, the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go went to the polls and de­liv­ered a man­date that would do more than just change a do­mes­tic agen­da.

With rel­a­tives, col­leagues and friends pay­ing trib­ute at her fu­ner­al ser­vice yes­ter­day, a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer said slain of­fi­cer Anus­ka Ever­s­ley served with courage and ho­n­our, con­demn­ing her mur­der as “an evil act.”

Hours be­fore the fu­ner­al of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley, one of her col­leagues and two oth­er men ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly in court charged with four of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der. It was al­so fi­nal­ly re­vealed that 123 guns were stolen from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on the night Ever­s­ley was mur­dered.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar says his im­me­di­ate fo­cus as new head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS) will be sta­bil­i­sa­tion, re­build­ing morale and restor­ing pub­lic trust as the ser­vice grap­ples with se­ri­ous in­ter­nal chal­lenges.