Two years af­ter Gulf­stream cap­sized off the coast of To­ba­go, caus­ing an oil spill af­fect­ing Scar­bor­ough and the South­ern Caribbean, Trinidad and To­ba­go has on­ly man­aged to re­cov­er just over $61 mil­lion from its clean-up op­er­a­tions from the In­ter­na­tion­al Oil Pol­lu­tion Com­pen­sa­tion Funds (IOPC Funds).

For the ma­jor­i­ty of the last 503 days, T&T has been in a State of Emer­gency (SoE), with three sep­a­rate SoEs, each with ex­ten­sions, im­ple­ment­ed since De­cem­ber 2024. And while they were called by two op­pos­ing ad­min­is­tra­tions, the rea­sons giv­en by both gov­ern­ments were the same, im­mi­nent and se­ri­ous pub­lic threats posed by gangs.

A 20-year-old man from Long­denville was killed af­ter be­ing hit by a car while at­tempt­ing to cross the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has crit­i­cised Gov­ern­ment’s plan to in­crease the strength of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) from 7,884 of­fi­cers to 10,200 over five years, ar­gu­ing that ac­count­abil­i­ty and lead­er­ship, not man­pow­er, are the re­al is­sues fac­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

A for­mer Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) pro­fes­sor, who was suc­cess­ful­ly sued by two of her past col­leagues for defama­tion, has won her breach of con­tract against the ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tion.

Res­i­dents of Tarou­ba Heights say they re­main in the dark days af­ter Thurs­day’s oil spill, al­leg­ing lim­it­ed di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion from Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um even as a lin­ger­ing hy­dro­car­bon odour, clean-up ac­tiv­i­ty and health con­cerns con­tin­ue to af­fect parts of the com­mu­ni­ty.

Clean-up op­er­a­tions along Char­lotte Street in Port-of-Spain have been com­plet­ed fol­low­ing a sewage leak that dis­rupt­ed busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty in the cap­i­tal’s main com­mer­cial dis­trict yes­ter­day.

Man­ches­ter City beat Chelsea 1-0 at Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day thanks to a mo­ment of mag­ic from An­toine Se­menyo.

The USS Ger­ald R. Ford, the world largest air­craft car­ri­er, re­turned home to Vir­ginia on Sat­ur­day af­ter an 11-month de­ploy­ment, the longest since the Viet­nam War, that saw it sup­port the U.S. war with Iran and the cap­ture of Nicolás Maduro when he was Venezuela’s pres­i­dent.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says no laws of Trinidad and To­ba­go were breached in re­la­tion to the Ukrain­ian car­go air­craft that land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day night car­ry­ing sev­er­al tonnes of in­dus­tri­al ex­plo­sives.

A 41-year-old woman is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter of­fi­cers held her in con­nec­tion with a stolen car in Arou­ca on Thurs­day.

A 26-year-old Ch­agua­nas man, de­scribed by po­lice as a “high-rank­ing mem­ber” and a “shoot­er” for the Rat­ed R gang, has been ar­rest­ed and is ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter a brief chase on Fri­day af­ter­noon.