Psy­chi­a­trist Dr Var­ma Deyals­ingh says that greater in­volve­ment from the State is nec­es­sary in iden­ti­fy­ing homes where el­der­ly peo­ple may not be re­ceiv­ing the care they need.

The well-be­ing of the now-dis­placed News­day staff was in fo­cus as the Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go held its first elec­tion in over four years on Sat­ur­day.

News­day’s clo­sure has been de­scribed as a tragedy that has prompt­ed great wor­ry that jour­nal­ism in the re­gion is un­der se­ri­ous threat.

A ran­sacked of­fice, a tam­pered safe, and a miss­ing elec­tric­i­ty me­ter greet­ed work­ers when the TTPost build­ing on Lucky Street, La Ro­maine, was re­opened ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing, af­ter bur­glars broke in­to the fa­cil­i­ty overnight.

Laugh­ter, colour, and wide-eyed won­der filled the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) on Sat­ur­day as Spir­it Mas opened the vi­brant world of Car­ni­val to over 100 chil­dren from three chil­dren’s homes across the coun­try dur­ing a spe­cial­ly cu­rat­ed cul­tur­al work­shop.

Fire of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of a blaze at the Cen­tral Bank build­ing in down­town Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night, but say it was not a fire but ac­tu­al­ly steam.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is hail­ing the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion’s Fla­va Vil­lage, launched Thurs­day, as a “bril­liant project”.

Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) Chair­man Pe­ter Kan­hai ac­knowl­edged the loud pub­lic back­lash he faced on open­ing night of the John Cu­pid Car­ni­val Vil­lage, say­ing the Com­mis­sion will lis­ten to the con­cerns raised about mov­ing the venue to the north­west­ern side of the Grand Stand at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

A copy­right dis­pute has emerged in the fi­nal days of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly cam­paign, with at­tor­neys for a US-based mu­sic pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny warn­ing of im­mi­nent court ac­tion against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Pro­test­ers against im­mi­gra­tion en­force­ment took to the streets in cities and towns across the coun­try on Sat­ur­day af­ter one fed­er­al of­fi­cer fa­tal­ly shot a woman in Min­neapo­lis and an­oth­er shot and wound­ed two peo­ple in Port­land, Ore­gon.

A prison of­fi­cer has been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Va­len­cia that led to the dis­cov­ery of am­mu­ni­tion and more than one kilo­gram of cannabis.

To­ba­go has record­ed its first mur­der for 2026, with one sus­pect now in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing a killing in Sig­nal Hill last night.