As a fresh face in the land­scape of T&T’s protests, Alyssa Phillip, 25, has quick­ly be­come the vi­brant new sym­bol of ad­vo­ca­cy and jus­tice.

As protests con­tin­ue over the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy case, lo­cal en­ter­tain­ers have be­gun to use their so­cial me­dia plat­forms to speak out over what they have de­scribed as an in­jus­tice.

UNC Freeport/Chick­land coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram is no longer on a ven­ti­la­tor and is now breath­ing on his own with oxy­gen as­sis­tance, ac­cord­ing to San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal au­thor­i­ties.

As rel­a­tives gath­ered in grief and si­lence, Shawn Black­burn stood on the road­side car­ry­ing a bur­den no par­ent should ever have to bear—the loss of a child.

The pain of los­ing the third mem­ber of their fam­i­ly to a bul­let has left a To­ba­go fam­i­ly in­con­solable.

Two weeks af­ter he an­nounced the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ten­tion to boost the TTPS’ man­pow­er strength to 10,200 of­fi­cers over a phased five-year re­cruit­ment plan, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der now says an ad­di­tion­al 800 prison of­fi­cers will be join­ing the ranks of the Prison Ser­vice in the near fu­ture.

Last Tues­day, the ear­li­est date for a pass­port ap­point­ment on the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty’s e-ap­point­ment web­site for the Port-of-Spain, San­gre Grande and Ch­agua­nas Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion of­fices was No­vem­ber 24.

Across the deserts, canyons and moun­tains di­vid­ing the Unit­ed States and Mex­i­co, mi­grants con­tin­ue to risk their lives for the chance of a bet­ter fu­ture in North Amer­i­ca.

De­spite the Green Fund con­tain­ing $12.9 bil­lion, as con­firmed by the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts for 2025, en­vi­ron­men­tal non-gov­ern­ment or­gan­i­sa­tions (NGOs) and com­mu­ni­ty groups con­tin­ue to re­port is­sues with ac­cess­ing fund­ing.

More than three months af­ter Car­ni­val 2026, steel­bands across T&T are still wait­ing to re­ceive their Panora­ma prize mon­ey, with Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore say­ing thou­sands of play­ers and stake­hold­ers re­main in lim­bo.

An idea con­cep­tu­alised many years ago is ex­pect­ed to be tru­ly awak­ened when the fifth an­nu­al To­ba­go Car­ni­val gets un­der­way from Oc­to­ber 30 to No­vem­ber 1.

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Sea Lots ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing end­ed in the death of a 33-year-old man and the wound­ing of a woman, po­lice said.