As ad­vo­ca­cy groups re­new calls for stronger mea­sures to pro­tect chil­dren fol­low­ing the mur­der of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne, po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors vis­it­ed the sus­pect’s home and oth­er key lo­ca­tions as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The death of an in­mate at the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) yes­ter­day morn­ing has reignit­ed con­cerns over prison staffing lev­els and the abil­i­ty of of­fi­cers to ad­e­quate­ly pro­tect in­mates.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Cab­i­net is con­sid­er­ing mea­sures aimed at im­prov­ing pub­lic trans­porta­tion ser­vices and re­duc­ing re­liance on un­reg­u­lat­ed PH taxi op­er­a­tors fol­low­ing grow­ing pub­lic con­cern in the wake of the mur­der of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne.

A coali­tion of 13 in­de­pen­dent trade unions, call­ing them­selves the Pro­gres­sive In­de­pen­dent Trade Unions, has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions re­strict­ing pub­lic demon­stra­tions with­in 500 me­tres of 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions, even as the Gov­ern­ment sig­nals it is not back­ing down on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures in­tro­duced un­der the emer­gency frame­work.

Ten-year-old Eme Eton has com­plet­ed her Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, mark­ing a rare aca­d­e­m­ic mile­stone at her age.

A Trinida­di­an is one of four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) na­tion­als, among 17 for­eign­ers, against whom the De­part­ment of Jus­tice says it has filed de­nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion ac­tions in var­i­ous US dis­trict courts, ac­cus­ing them of se­ri­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing sex­u­al abuse of a mi­nor, wire and bank fraud and dis­trib­ut­ing drugs whole­sale with­out a li­cence.

A To­ba­go man is fight­ing for his life at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Bloody Bay on Mon­day evening.

Holy Name Con­vent Port-of-Spain has opened a con­fi­den­tial com­plaints por­tal for peo­ple wish­ing to sub­mit con­cerns and in­for­ma­tion as part of an in­de­pen­dent re­view in­to al­le­ga­tions and ex­pe­ri­ences shared by mem­bers of the school com­mu­ni­ty and the wider pub­lic.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has con­demned the theft of crit­i­cal elec­tri­cal wires from the Biche Boost­er Sta­tion, an act of van­dal­ism that has dis­rupt­ed wa­ter sup­ply to sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties in east Trinidad.

Trini­bad en­ter­tain­er Kashif Sankar, bet­ter known as Kman 6ixx, is ap­peal­ing to au­thor­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go and across the Caribbean to re­con­sid­er re­stric­tions that have pre­vent­ed him from per­form­ing at events in re­cent years.

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for a fur­ther three months, the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is warn­ing that the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion could keep Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der emer­gency pow­ers for years by ex­ploit­ing what it de­scribes as a con­sti­tu­tion­al loop­hole.

A marathon de­bate is ex­pect­ed to­day in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment presents the Fi­nance Bill 2026—con­tain­ing in­creas­es to var­i­ous fines and penal­ties and grant­i­ng cer­tain con­ces­sions—fol­lowed by a mo­tion to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) for an­oth­er three months.