A late-night po­lice op­er­a­tion led to the ar­rest of a woman and her teenage son af­ter they al­leged­ly kept Sabi­ta Bas­deo, a moth­er of two, against her will for months, beat­ing her and threat­en­ing to kill her when­ev­er she tried to leave to see her fam­i­ly.

Caribbean lead­ers have laid out a de­tailed time­line of events sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Car­la Bar­nett, con­firm­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go nei­ther at­tend­ed key dis­cus­sions nor a sub­se­quent emer­gency meet­ing con­vened to ad­dress the is­sue.

Cari­com Chair­man Dr Ter­rance Drew has moved to clar­i­fy the process be­hind the reap­point­ment of the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, fol­low­ing con­cerns raised by Trinidad and To­ba­go over gov­er­nance and pro­ce­dure with­in the re­gion­al body.

Prayers and re­lief in Gas­par­il­lo on Fri­day af­ter a six-year-old girl was res­cued and re­vived from a pool, just days af­ter the coun­try was shak­en by the trag­ic death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie, who died in a jet ski ac­ci­dent in To­ba­go. How­ev­er, the child re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing un­der­wa­ter for eight min­utes.

Res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore are ex­pect­ed to turn out in their num­bers this evening for a can­dle­light vig­il in mem­o­ry of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie, whose life was trag­i­cal­ly cut short in a jet ski in­ci­dent in To­ba­go last week.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s Di­vi­sion of En­vi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Re­silience and En­er­gy yes­ter­day is­sued a pub­lic no­tice re­mind­ing op­er­a­tors that jet skis and per­son­al wa­ter­craft are not al­lowed in Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park, Buc­coo Beach and nearshore ar­eas.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment will not sit by and watch crime con­tin­ue as the coun­try reached the 100 mur­der mark yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made pub­lic a let­ter by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers to Cari­com re­gard­ing this coun­try’s at­ten­dance at any meet­ing to dis­cuss the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has pushed back against claims by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that her ad­min­is­tra­tion is re­spon­si­ble for record prof­its at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

From 2010 to 2024, there were 33,489 do­mes­tic vi­o­lence po­lice re­ports, ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) will roll out a 15-point ac­tion plan to its mem­ber­ship by the end of the week in re­sponse to the Health Min­is­ter’s claim that their march on Fri­day had no ef­fect on the health sec­tor.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go ob­serves Sex­u­al Abuse Aware­ness Month and Child Abuse Aware­ness Month, a trou­bling re­port has re­vealed that more than 11,000 chil­dren have ac­cessed helpline ser­vices over the past five years—high­light­ing what ad­vo­cates say is an ur­gent need to break the taboo sur­round­ing sex and sex­u­al­i­ty and to ex­pand sup­port sys­tems for both vic­tims and abusers.