Of­fi­cers have seized firearms, sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics dur­ing var­i­ous ex­er­cis­es on Wednes­day.

A fire at the Beetham Land­fill has been con­tained, “but is still gen­er­at­ing grey smoke”, ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL).

To­ba­go schools are see­ing an in­crease in cas­es of Hand, Foot and Mouth Dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy (DERTech).

Po­lice shot and killed a man dur­ing a con­fronta­tion in Long­denville last night, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said.

Hamas on Thurs­day re­leased the bod­ies of four Is­raeli hostages, said to in­clude a moth­er and her two chil­dren who have long been feared dead and had come to em­body the na­tion’s agony fol­low­ing the Oct. 7, 2023, at­tack.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) has con­firmed that two fires were de­tect­ed at the Beetham Land­fill Site at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 11:30pm on Wednes­day (Feb­ru­ary 19, 2025).

Even as she again con­demned squat­ting as il­le­gal, Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is yes­ter­day an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment will con­struct 500 homes for squat­ters oc­cu­py­ing both State and pri­vate lands.

In­cum­bent Tabaquite MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne says any­thing is pos­si­ble when it comes to her con­test­ing the Tabaquite seat, even if it is with an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

Res­i­dents of Ram­jat­tan Trace, La Hor­quet­ta, whose homes were re­cent­ly de­mol­ished, say they are hope­ful they will be in­clud­ed in the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to build 500 res­i­den­tial units for squat­ters who oc­cu­py both State and pri­vate lands.

From lob­by­ing for work­ers’ rights to lob­by­ing with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), the Oil­field Work­ers' Trade Union (OW­TU) has of­fi­cial­ly un­veiled its con­tri­bu­tion to the coali­tion of in­ter­ests, by yes­ter­day sub­mit­ting two of its mem­bers for screen­ing un­der the UNC ban­ner.

Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Dr Rai Rag­bir says while he has had no dis­cus­sions with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) about se­cur­ing a po­si­tion with­in the par­ty, he re­mains open to serv­ing the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go in any ca­pac­i­ty, re­gard­less of po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les says a con­trac­tor from South Trinidad has been charged in con­nec­tion with a wa­ter rack­et in Morne Di­a­blo last year.