Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­tract and apol­o­gise for what she de­scribes as “defam­a­to­ry, in­flam­ma­to­ry and false” al­le­ga­tions made against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

As the sa­cred month of Ra­madan un­folds along­side the Chris­t­ian sea­son of Lent, two promi­nent re­li­gious lead­ers are de­scrib­ing the mo­ment as both spir­i­tu­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant and so­cial­ly trans­for­ma­tive.

A shoot­ing in east Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day morn­ing left one man dead, two oth­ers in­jured, and the com­mu­ni­ty fear­ful of pos­si­ble re­tal­ia­to­ry at­tacks.

Was Rio Claro bee­keep­er Melvin Pas­call killed over a prop­er­ty dis­pute? Rel­a­tives of the de­ceased be­lieve this may have been the mo­tive, but in­ves­ti­ga­tors said yes­ter­day that in­quiries are on­go­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the fa­tal shoot­ing of a 25-year-old labour­er in Pe­nal on Wednes­day.

A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer and a se­cu­ri­ty guard have been freed of charges stem­ming from the al­leged kid­nap­ping, rape and at­tempt­ed mur­der of an 18-year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al in 2020.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will at­tend next week’s 50th Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) “un­der a cloud,” ac­cord­ing to Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu.

Cen­tral’s largest J’Ou­vert band, I Can­dy J’Ou­vert, cap­tured top ho­n­ours at the Ch­agua­nas Car­ni­val Cel­e­bra­tions 2026, win­ning the J’Ou­vert Band of the Year ti­tle with its pre­sen­ta­tion, “Spir­it of Jab”.

Lost Tribe and K2K Al­liance & Part­ners have ex­tend­ed their dom­i­nant Car­ni­val 2026 run, cap­tur­ing the top Down­town Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee ti­tles in the Large and Medi­um Band cat­e­gories.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to with­draw al­le­ga­tions made against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has wel­comed this coun­try’s re­moval from the Eu­ro­pean Union’s list of non-co­op­er­a­tive ju­ris­dic­tions for tax pur­pos­es.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced Thurs­day at the in­au­gur­al Board of Peace meet­ing that nine mem­bers have agreed to pledge $7 bil­lion to­ward a Gaza re­lief pack­age and five coun­tries have agreed to de­ploy troops as part of an in­ter­na­tion­al sta­bi­liza­tion force for the war-bat­tered Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry.