The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) says a fire at the Beetham Land­fill has been con­tained.

So­cadrome Vil­lage will re­turn for Car­ni­val 2026 at the Jean Pierre Com­plex, with or­gan­is­ers promis­ing an ex­pand­ed and reimag­ined cul­tur­al space un­der the theme Rhythms of the Re­pub­lic.

Pa­trons danced, wined and gy­rat­ed at Ravi B’s Re­union par­ty at Tantra Ter­races, San­gre Grande, on Sat­ur­day night. The event was filled to ca­pac­i­ty, and some tick­et-hold­ers were turned away when the fire ser­vice re­strict­ed en­try to pre­vent over­crowd­ing. Those af­fect­ed were re­fund­ed and of­fered apolo­gies.

More than $50,000 in cash and prizes will be award­ed when the Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee stages its an­nu­al queen pageant on Valen­tine’s Day 2026.

A 20-year-old Venezue­lan woman was res­cued fol­low­ing a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping near Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, on Fri­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing skele­tal re­mains dis­cov­ered in Brazil Vil­lage on Fri­day evening.

The To­ba­go air­port ter­mi­nal, the pro­posed in­ter-is­land re­gion­al fer­ry and the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre re­main un­fin­ished or un­der re­view, Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John said to­day.

Wa­ter short­ages and re­in­forced steel doors ham­pered fire­fight­ers as they bat­tled an ear­ly-morn­ing blaze that gut­ted Anand Low Price Su­per­mar­ket in La Ro­maine, leav­ing about 100 em­ploy­ees from the su­per­mar­ket and neigh­bour­ing Bent­ley’s tem­porar­i­ly job­less.

On Jan­u­ary 30, just days af­ter it reached T&T and while on sea tri­als, the ves­sel brought to ser­vice the in­ter-is­land seabridge—Blue Wave Har­mo­ny—was dam­aged dur­ing berthing ma­noeu­vres in To­ba­go.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of Re­al Es­tate Agents (AREA) is wel­com­ing the Board of In­land Rev­enue’s (BIR) lat­est an­nounce­ment that down­load­able Land­lord Busi­ness Reg­is­tra­tion Forms will be avail­able from March 1, 2026, as well as the ex­ten­sion of the reg­is­tra­tion dead­line to May 30, 2026.

As To­ba­go’s trans­porta­tion woes once again dom­i­nate na­tion­al at­ten­tion, Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John has stepped for­ward to de­fend the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the lat­est dis­rup­tions. Her de­fence comes as the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) in­ten­si­fies its call to end what it de­scribes as a decades-long “eco­nom­ic and so­cial em­bar­go” on the is­land caused by what it calls un­re­li­able air and seabridge ser­vices.

Thou­sands of pa­trons at­tempt­ing to leave the ‘Stink and Dut­ty’ fete held at the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port were caught in hours-long traf­fic con­ges­tion yes­ter­day, leav­ing the West­ern Main Road se­vere­ly grid­locked. The traf­fic night­mare prompt­ed some rev­ellers to seek al­ter­na­tive routes by sea to get home.