Fac­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of their in­dus­try be­ing shut down, jet ski own­ers in To­ba­go are now des­per­ate to re­pair their im­age and find a place to op­er­ate from. Buc­coo beach is one of the ar­eas they are tar­get­ing, hop­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly will lift the jet ski ban there and al­low them ex­clu­sive use of the site.

It comes ex­act­ly one week af­ter An­gel­i­ca was killed in a ter­ri­fy­ing jet ski ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach, To­ba­go.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to come for­ward with in­for­ma­tion on a San Fran­cique woman and her son, who are ac­cused of false­ly im­pris­on­ing Sabi­ta Bas­deo af­ter of­fer­ing her a job as a maid.

A Guapo school­boy is among nine peo­ple who have been is­sued with Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as part of on­go­ing ef­forts to con­tain vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

The in­tegri­ty of a high-pro­file par­lia­men­tary in­quiry has been thrown in­to ques­tion fol­low­ing al­le­ga­tions that Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates coached a key wit­ness she was tasked with scru­ti­n­is­ing.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, push­ing back against con­cerns raised by for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is over trans­paren­cy in the process.

For­mer min­is­ter of rur­al de­vel­op­ment and lo­cal gov­ern­ment Faris Al-Rawi has added his voice to mount­ing con­cerns over fund­ing short­falls across cor­po­ra­tions, call­ing on cur­rent min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen to “wake up.”

Pay­ments to more than 500 per­form­ers en­gaged in the Gov­ern­ment’s Car­ni­val Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive ranged from $700 to $60,000, with 90 per cent of artistes al­ready re­ceiv­ing pay­ment to date, Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin says.

There were 1,050 re­port­ed cas­es of stu­dent sus­pen­sion as a con­se­quence of school vi­o­lence across the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem for the Sep­tem­ber to De­cem­ber 2025 pe­ri­od, but no stu­dent was ex­pelled dur­ing that pe­ri­od, says Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath.

The Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing whether to fill va­can­cies in the pub­lic health sec­tor with Cuban health­care pro­fes­sion­als, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has said.

Al­though a post mortem was or­dered to be per­formed on de­ceased busi­ness­man Wayne Yip Choy yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­firmed a sui­cide note was found on his per­son min­utes af­ter he re­port­ed­ly shot him­self.

An armed of­fi­cer on du­ty at Poui Hill, La­dy Chan­cel­lor, Port-of-Spain, had cause to dis­charge his firearm dur­ing the wee hours yes­ter­day af­ter an in­trud­er was spot­ted in the area.