The search for miss­ing Venezue­lan mi­grant Nikol Lan­dae­ta en­tered its sixth day yes­ter­day as res­cuers combed an Ica­cos swamp in the hope of re­cov­er­ing the moth­er of two, who has been miss­ing since the pirogue she was trav­el­ling in cap­sized off the Erin coast last Sat­ur­day.

Mem­bers of the Rasta­fari com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered for var­i­ous events across the coun­try last Thurs­day, in cel­e­bra­tion of the 134th earth­strong (birth­day) of the late Ethiopi­an Em­per­or Haile Se­lassie I. They sought to urge the pop­u­la­tion to show more love and re­spect for one an­oth­er, re­mind­ing them that sal­va­tion is the on­ly way to Zion.

The State has been or­dered to pay more than $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to two broth­ers who were framed by po­lice for mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing.

A pro­mot­er has lost its case against a group of ri­vals and Niger­ian singer-song­writer Bur­na Boy, af­ter al­leg­ing they con­spired to hi­jack its bid to host a con­cert in De­cem­ber 2022.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that the re­cent res­ig­na­tions of two di­rec­tors from the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) board were linked to in­ter­nal dis­agree­ments or gov­er­nance is­sues, in­sist­ing the de­par­tures were prompt­ed by pro­fes­sion­al com­mit­ments out­side the com­pa­ny.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira, SC, is call­ing on young lawyers to con­sid­er be­com­ing pros­e­cu­tors, say­ing the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) re­mains sig­nif­i­cant­ly un­der­staffed at a time when Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to grap­ple with se­ri­ous crime.

Two men have been ar­rest­ed af­ter wildlife of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found a dead sea tur­tle, tur­tle meat and tur­tle eggs dur­ing an en­force­ment op­er­a­tion at Lam­beau Beach, To­ba­go.

Eu­ro­pean na­tions agreed Thurs­day to boy­cott the World Cup and all oth­er FI­FA com­pe­ti­tions to protest Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no’s plan to sell stakes in soc­cer’s biggest tour­na­ment to pri­vate eq­ui­ty in­vestors. The North Amer­i­can soc­cer body re­ject­ed his plan lat­er the same day.

Citi em­ploy­ees trad­ed their desks for paint­brush­es as the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion marked Glob­al Com­mu­ni­ty Day 2026 with a hands-on com­mu­ni­ty project to im­prove the lives of res­i­dents at the Eter­nal Light Com­mu­ni­ty – Joshua House.

Guyana of­fi­cial­ly swore in a five-mem­ber Com­mis­sion of In­quiry on Thurs­day, to in­ves­ti­gate the sink­ing of the MV Bari­ma ear­li­er this month, a mar­itime dis­as­ter that is be­lieved to have claimed the lives of more than 100 peo­ple.

Sev­en­teen peo­ple have re­ceived War­rants of Pres­i­den­tial Par­don fol­low­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion cer­e­mo­ny host­ed by the Min­istry of Jus­tice.

In an ef­fort to fend off a mount­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis, Cu­ba on Wednes­day eased up on long­time re­stric­tions on pri­vate ven­dors and im­ports, open­ing up a sec­tor firm­ly con­trolled by the Com­mu­nist-led gov­ern­ment.