Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­newed calls for trans­paren­cy from CARI­COM over the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Car­la Bar­nett, warn­ing that her Gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue to chal­lenge what it de­scribes as an im­prop­er process. She has al­so threat­ened to with­hold fund­ing from Trinidad and To­ba­go for the re­gion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Eleven in­di­vid­u­als have been charged fol­low­ing an in­ter­cep­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard off the Erin coast on April 3, 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said mul­ti­ple an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed be­tween April 5 and April 6, 2026, led to sev­er­al ar­rests for am­mu­ni­tion-re­lat­ed of­fences in the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in Port of Spain nabbed a sus­pect af­ter a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent turned in­to a chase on Sat­ur­day.

With the re­view com­ing up, Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kadi­jah Ameen, who is fi­nal­is­ing sub­mis­sions for the Fi­nance Min­istry, will be meet­ing on Wednes­day with re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions on their re­spec­tive po­si­tions.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing the pub­lic to do their part in se­cur­ing their com­mu­ni­ties by part­ner­ing with law en­force­ment, not­ing that safe neigh­bour­hoods can­not be achieved if cit­i­zens with­hold po­ten­tial­ly life-sav­ing in­for­ma­tion.

With nu­mer­ous road traf­fic ac­ci­dents over the East­er hol­i­day week­end, mo­torists are be­ing urged to ex­er­cise greater cau­tion on the na­tion’s roads, as wet weath­er con­di­tions and in­creased en­force­ment co­in­cide with grow­ing con­cern over crash­es and im­paired dri­ving.

An ar­gu­ment out­side a Barataria bar ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing led to a stab­bing where one man was killed and three oth­ers wound­ed.

Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don has chal­lenged cit­i­zens to live clos­er to the res­ur­rec­tion light. His state­ment came as he de­liv­ered his East­er homi­ly at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion in down­town Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Call­ing on T&T to “hang in there” de­spite life’s fail­ures and wounds, Ro­man Catholic priest Fr Matthew D’Here­aux used his East­er Sun­day mes­sage to re­mind be­liev­ers yes­ter­day that even those who fal­ter are still called to fol­low Christ.

As the na­tion con­fronts sev­er­al so­ci­etal chal­lenges, dean and rec­tor of the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral, Rev­erend Shel­ley-Ann Tenia, says church­es must re­turn to work­ing to­geth­er. She made the com­ment as she ap­peared on CNC3’s The Big In­ter­view last night.

Caribbean Air­lines has con­firmed that one of its flights be­came an un­like­ly de­liv­ery room mid-air, af­ter a pas­sen­ger gave birth while en route from Ja­maica to New York, though the air­line in­sists no emer­gency was de­clared dur­ing the in­ci­dent.