The num­ber of child abuse al­le­ga­tions na­tion­wide on a month­ly ba­sis has re­mained gen­er­al­ly con­sis­tent, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials in the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty, as they stress the need for a so­ci­etal ap­proach to pro­tect­ing chil­dren.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), were called to Tyri­co Beach at Mara­cas Bay yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter a body was dis­cov­ered in some bush­es.

A Ch­agua­nas man was ar­rest­ed by po­lice at a bar along the Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road on Sat­ur­day night, af­ter he was held with an il­le­gal firearm.

De­spite try­ing to fight off an as­sailant who at­tacked him ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing in Mara­bel­la, a 42-year-old man was un­able to pre­vent the thief from es­cap­ing with jew­ellery val­ued at $70,000.

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion are search­ing for a sus­pect who re­port­ed­ly shot at of­fi­cers on Sat­ur­day night.

Four sus­pects, in­clud­ing a teenag­er, were ar­rest­ed at a house in Tu­na­puna on Sat­ur­day, af­ter po­lice dis­cov­ered a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing ten rounds of am­mu­ni­tion hid­den in a bed­room.

Five sus­pects, in­clud­ing one mi­nor, were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, two mag­a­zines and quan­ti­ties of drugs and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing on­go­ing week­end State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in the Cen­tral and North Cen­tral Di­vi­sions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to women across Trinidad and To­ba­go, prais­ing their strength, re­silience and con­tri­bu­tions to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment as the coun­try marks In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to women and girls lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly as the coun­try marks In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day 2026.

Gospel artiste Jovon Les-Pierre, known as Jovi Ton, claims he is in­no­cent and was “set up” af­ter tak­ing what he de­scribed as a rou­tine hire taxi job to Wood­brook.

In a his­toric mo­ment, Trinidad and To­ba­go has joined a new­ly es­tab­lished mil­i­tary al­liance led by Unit­ed States (US) Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump known as the Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is seek­ing to as­sure cit­i­zens that the gains made for Trinidad and To­ba­go at the Shield of the Amer­i­c­as meet­ing did not come at the ex­pense of this na­tion’s sov­er­eign­ty.