The Fire Ser­vice has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a fire that broke out at the Scar­bor­ough Li­brary yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Frus­tra­tion and anger are mount­ing among work­ers of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) over what they say are stalled wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

The In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA) has been forced to can­cel the launch of its To­ba­go East and West can­di­dates yes­ter­day af­ter an elec­tric­i­ty dis­rup­tion af­fect­ed sev­er­al ar­eas in Scar­bor­ough, in­clud­ing the Tsoiafatt Build­ing–owned by IDA leader Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus, where the launch was set to take place.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) has is­sued a state­ment fol­low­ing the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil’s rul­ing in Ay­ers-Cae­sar v. JLSC ([2025] UKPC 15), ad­dress­ing key le­gal is­sues re­gard­ing ju­di­cial tenure and the au­thor­i­ty of the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (JLSC).

The charred re­mains of a 72-year-old man were dis­cov­ered late Mon­day night in a bushy area off Daisy Con­nec­tor Road, hours af­ter his daugh­ter re­port­ed him miss­ing.

A joint law en­force­ment op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed on Sat­ur­day led to the dis­cov­ery of a cannabis grow house and the seizure of 32 cannabis plants in Rox­bor­ough.

Three in­di­vid­u­als were ar­rest­ed, and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and cannabis were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North­ern and North Cen­tral Di­vi­sions on Thurs­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­ceived a cour­tesy call from Chargé d’Af­faires at the U.S. Em­bassy, Dr Jenifer Nei­d­hart de Or­tiz on Tues­day morn­ing.

Iran qual­i­fied for the 2026 World Cup af­ter Meh­di Tare­mi scored twice in a 2-2 draw with Uzbek­istan on Tues­day.

An an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed with­in the West End Po­lice Sta­tion Dis­trict re­sult­ed in the seizure of cannabis and oth­er il­le­gal items.

To­ba­go in­ves­ti­ga­tors are at the scene at Tur­tle Beach in Black Rock af­ter Ver­na­do George, al­so known as "Mon­ster," was found slumped over in a van just af­ter mid­day to­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et um­pire, Joel Wil­son, has been re­moved from the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil's Elite Pan­el of Um­pires. Eng­land's Michael Gough has al­so been re­moved.