Af­ter nine days of search­ing land and sea for two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, po­lice say a sus­pect has con­fessed to mur­der­ing the child and dis­pos­ing of the body at sea.

A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is and Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein over the Beau­car­ro and Al­lam­by hous­ing de­vel­op­ment projects, as well as com­ments re­lat­ing to the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor (OPR).

For years, res­i­dents liv­ing near the over­grown lands along Beau­car­ro Road, Freeport, watched heavy equip­ment move in and out, trans­form­ers ap­pear on util­i­ty poles and ru­mours cir­cu­late about a hous­ing de­vel­op­ment that nev­er ma­te­ri­alised.

Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion alder­man Vic­tor Roberts says he has no ob­jec­tion to laws be­ing changed to al­low po­lit­i­cal par­ties to re­voke the ap­point­ments of of­fi­cials in po­si­tions like his, but main­tains that un­der the cur­rent leg­is­la­tion he has no in­ten­tion of re­sign­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors lead­ing the probe in­to the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo met with the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) yes­ter­day.

The rel­a­tives of a Cunu­pia man who was killed by po­lice are ques­tion­ing the cir­cum­stances un­der which he was shot, as they claim he act­ed as a care­tak­er for the prop­er­ty and was not armed at the time of his death.

Two days af­ter he told po­lice he was chopped and in need of as­sis­tance, the body of Adri­an Duff was found hog-tied and with sev­er­al chop wounds in the Ca­roni Riv­er.

Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion al­der­man Wayne Grif­fith says he is ea­ger­ly await­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions by school of­fi­cials and po­lice in­to the as­sault on him by Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School stu­dents.

A 17-year-old boy and his el­der­ly grand­fa­ther were tied up and beat­en by masked ban­dits dur­ing a vi­o­lent home in­va­sion at their Pe­nal home ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing. Po­lice said the teenag­er and his 63-year-old grand­fa­ther were at­tacked around 3 am at their home at Mo­ra Dam Road. The teenag­er was out­side the house when he was con­front­ed by five masked men, two of whom had firearms. They struck the boy on the head and an­nounced a rob­bery be­fore forc­ing him in­to the house. He at­tempt­ed to lock the front door, but the sus­pects kicked it open and stormed in­side.

This coun­try was rep­re­sent­ed by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry of­fi­cials at yes­ter­day’s 29th Coun­cil for For­eign and Com­mu­ni­ty Re­la­tions (COF­COR) con­fer­ence, where Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett’s open­ing ad­dress fo­cused on re­gion­al uni­ty as an im­per­a­tive.

The Pa­role Bill, 2026, was passed in the Up­per House on Tues­day, bring­ing the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion one step clos­er to es­tab­lish­ing pro­vi­sions for the ear­ly re­lease of cer­tain pris­on­ers be­fore the com­ple­tion of their sen­tences.

Even a near-nor­mal At­lantic hur­ri­cane sea­son could still bring dev­as­tat­ing flood­ing and dan­ger­ous­ly high tem­per­a­tures to Trinidad and To­ba­go this year, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) warned dur­ing the 20th Na­tion­al Cli­mate Out­look Fo­rum (NCOF) at the T&T Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty Train­ing Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co.