A 24-year-old man was shot and killed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with po­lice near a bar along Morne Co­co Road, Mar­aval, on Fri­day night, mak­ing the in­ci­dent the third po­lice-in­volved fa­tal shoot­ing with­in a 24-hour pe­ri­od.

With rough­ly two more weeks be­fore the State of Emer­gency comes to an end, the Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter is­sued ten more de­ten­tion or­ders for the year.

Kly­don En­ter­pris­es Ltd, a com­pa­ny linked to for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Fos­ter Cum­mings, op­er­at­ed on oral con­tracts for cer­tain months in 2017 and 2018 at the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC).

Lo­cal event pro­mot­er Ja­cho En­ter­tain­ment Lim­it­ed has filed a civ­il law­suit against Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Adid­ja Az­im Palmer, pop­u­lar­ly known as Vy­bz Kar­tel, aris­ing out of the can­cel­la­tion of the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val, which was sched­uled to take place on May 31, 2025.

Plans to be­gin mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um have re­port­ed­ly been post­poned, adding to un­cer­tain­ty among mi­grants seek­ing to reg­u­larise their sta­tus un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pand­ed reg­is­tra­tion frame­work.

Since News­day’s an­nounce­ment that it has com­menced le­gal pro­ceed­ings to close, much has been writ­ten here at home and around the re­gion about this de­ci­sion. The clo­sure of any news­pa­per any­where in the world res­onates with jour­nal­ists every­where as they un­der­stand the chal­lenges of this unique in­dus­try that of­ten sits on the edge of chal­leng­ing fi­nan­cial de­ci­sion-mak­ing. In the midst of the noise that has en­cir­cled this an­nounce­ment, the sober re­al­i­ty is that sus­tain­ing a tra­di­tion­al me­dia house in this era is a tough bal­anc­ing act.

With Car­ni­val less than a month away, for­mer pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­BA) Dune Ali is rais­ing con­cerns about the tenure of the as­so­ci­a­tion’s cur­rent pres­i­dent, Mark Ayen.

Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers say they are still wait­ing on salary in­creas­es, even as oth­er pub­lic ser­vants pre­pare to ben­e­fit from a 10 per cent wage in­crease se­cured by the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) start­ing this month.

As the Car­ni­val 2026 sea­son heats up and the year’s new so­ca tunes hit the air­waves, the Bo­cas Lit Fest will launch a new se­ries of “Kaiso Con­ver­sa­tions” fo­cused on the art of ca­lyp­so song­writ­ing, with a spe­cial event fea­tur­ing mu­si­cal icon David Rud­der.

Po­lice seized cannabis and ar­rest­ed two peo­ple dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Area North of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Sat­ur­day that he would charge a 10% im­port tax start­ing in Feb­ru­ary on goods from eight Eu­ro­pean na­tions be­cause of their op­po­si­tion to Amer­i­can con­trol of Green­land, set­ting up a po­ten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous test of U.S. part­ner­ships in Eu­rope.

When Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced the au­da­cious cap­ture of Nicolás Maduro to face drug traf­fick­ing charges in the U.S., he por­trayed the strong­man’s vice pres­i­dent and long­time aide as Amer­i­ca’s pre­ferred part­ner to sta­bi­lize Venezuela amid a scourge of drugs, cor­rup­tion and eco­nom­ic may­hem.