Five sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and nar­cotics seized fol­low­ing two an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the East­ern Di­vi­sion over the week­end.

Fifty-five mo­torists were tick­et­ed for speed­ing and two ar­rest­ed for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence dur­ing road traf­fic ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch (TH­PB) be­tween Thurs­day and Sat­ur­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is de­nounc­ing what it calls the reck­less and un­law­ful ac­tions of a quar­ry­ing con­trac­tor who dis­charged ef­flu­ent in­to trib­u­taries feed­ing the Gua­napo Riv­er, caus­ing vis­i­ble con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the wa­ter­course and threat­en­ing wa­ter pro­duc­tion ef­fi­cien­cy at the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

Four men were ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of cannabis and cash seized dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in San­gre Grande on Sat­ur­day night.

Pho­to: From Left -Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer, Dr Nar­ine Singh; UNICEF Area Rep­re­sen­ta­tive (ag) of Guyana and Suri­name, Gabriel Vock­el; At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs, Mo­hab­ir Anil Nand­lall SC and Chan­cel­lor of the Ju­di­cia­ry (ag), Yo­nette Cum­mings-Ed­ward (Pho­to cour­tesy CANA)

Three peo­ple were killed and more than a dozen hos­pi­talised Sun­day fol­low­ing a sud­den crowd surge and stam­pede at a pop­u­lar Hin­du fes­ti­val in east­ern In­dia, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties said.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les will host a le­gal clin­ic for ter­mi­nat­ed Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors to­day, as more Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­neys—in­clud­ing for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young—pre­pare to mount a le­gal de­fence on their be­half.

A strong hy­dro­car­bon odour on Fri­day af­ter­noon was the first sign that some­thing was wrong in Bayshore, Mara­bel­la.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has thrown its full sup­port be­hind the move by the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to arm se­lect off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cers 24 hours a day.

The di­rec­tion of the de­feat­ed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will be in fo­cus at to­day’s spe­cial con­ven­tion, when po­lit­i­cal leader-elect Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, the par­ty’s first fe­male leader, is in­stalled in that post at City Hall, Port-of-Spain.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) iden­ti­fied The Palms vil­las as its pre­ferred op­tion, ap­proved the pur­chase of the $19 mil­lion prop­er­ty since Jan­u­ary 2024, se­cured board ap­proval, and even at­tempt­ed to source for­eign cur­ren­cy for the down pay­ment—yet the pub­lic was not for­mal­ly in­formed of the trans­ac­tion un­til a press re­lease is­sued 17 months lat­er, af­ter the prop­er­ty was pur­chased.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ab­stained from vot­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, be­cause they be­lieved it was rushed, not sig­nif­i­cant­ly thought out and was tar­get­ed at one in­di­vid­ual—name­ly MP and for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young.