Four al­leged gang lead­ers are among eight men de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions, fol­low­ing de­ten­tion or­ders signed at the re­quest of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

Found­ing mem­ber of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment, Fer­die Fer­reira, says Amer­i­can claims that war ships have been sent to the re­gion be­cause of an in­flux of drugs to the U.S. are “lu­di­crous and high­ly ques­tion­able”.

Po­lice said floor­man Abra­ham Lazarus was at­tacked on Fri­day but on­ly re­port­ed the in­ci­dent on Mon­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­tract her state­ment sup­port­ing the Unit­ed States’ vi­o­lent killing of drug traf­fick­ers.

The Princes Town Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (PTRC) says it will step in to cut and clean school premis­es across the re­gion ahead of the re­open­ing of the new school term, fol­low­ing the con­tin­ued ab­sence of URP and CEPEP work­ers.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion is ad­vis­ing the open­ing of the 2025-2026 Law Term will take place on Tues­day, 16 Sep­tem­ber 2025 from 10am at the Hall of Jus­tice.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has thanked the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary for car­ry­ing out a strike on a ves­sel in the south­ern Caribbean sus­pect­ed of trans­port­ing nar­cotics. He said he does not pity the 11 peo­ple who died on the ves­sel or any­one run­ning afoul of the law.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) for­eign min­is­ters are urg­ing the Unit­ed States to pro­vide an as­sur­ance that any mil­i­tary ac­tion aimed at Venezuela will not threat­en re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty or oc­cur with­out pri­or con­sul­ta­tion and warn­ing.

Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin and North Ko­re­an leader Kim Jong Un met for bi­lat­er­al talks in Bei­jing on Wednes­day.

Af­ter­noon thun­der­storms brought chaos across parts of Trinidad yes­ter­day, with sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties be­ing hit by flash flood­ing and com­muters stuck in hours of traf­fic.

As 95 spe­cial­ly trained Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers en­ter their fi­nal week of train­ing ahead of their de­ploy­ment to schools deemed high-risk on Sep­tem­ber 8, stake­hold­ers are ex­press­ing con­cerns about the new mea­sure.

With re­ports of Unit­ed States mis­sile fire on a mar­itime tar­get linked to Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang - killing 11 on board - T&T Cari­com Am­bas­sador Ralph Maraj has praised the “wel­come new mo­men­tum” in T&T-US re­la­tions, which he said de­vel­oped un­der Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.