Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing whether an at­tempt to steal cop­per may have led to the death of a man whose body was dis­cov­ered at the for­mer Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre com­pound on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s very own Kes The Band will make its de­but on the high­ly-ac­claimed NPR Tiny Desk Con­cert se­ries. The per­for­mance will air on May 8 at 7 AM on NPR Mu­sic’s YouTube chan­nel.

A Bar­rack­pore man who killed his es­tranged com­mon-law wife and their 14-month-old daugh­ter has been sen­tenced to death.

A man ac­cused of mur­der based sole­ly on a con­fes­sion al­leged­ly made to a con­vict­ed killer he shared a prison cell with has been freed af­ter spend­ing 16 years on re­mand.

Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez has made it clear that Venezuela will con­tin­ue to de­fend its claim to own­er­ship of the dis­put­ed Es­se­qui­bo re­gion in Guyana.

Caribbean coun­tries risk be­ing left be­hind if they con­tin­ue to treat ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence as a talk­ing point in­stead of a de­vel­op­ment pri­or­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Lib­er­ty Caribbean CEO Inge Smidts.

Chi­na is urg­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er coun­tries back­ing the Unit­ed States in the Pana­ma Canal dis­pute not to be “blind­ed” or used to ad­vance US in­ter­ests in the es­ca­lat­ing diplo­mat­ic stand­off.

King Charles III and Queen Camil­la kicked off their trip to New York City on Wednes­day with a vis­it to the Na­tion­al 9/11 Memo­r­i­al, where they ho­n­oured vic­tims of the 2001 at­tacks dur­ing a wreath-lay­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

Res­i­dents of far-flung com­mu­ni­ties in South Trinidad who have en­dured years of wa­ter short­ages are wel­com­ing plans for three new de­sali­na­tion plants, while urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to al­so tap in­to catch­ment ponds in low-ly­ing ar­eas as a short-term so­lu­tion.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Andy Knight is warn­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar may be “hurt­ing” Trinidad and To­ba­go’s long-term diplo­mat­ic in­ter­ests by align­ing too close­ly with Don­ald Trump, cau­tion­ing that the US leader could soon be­come a “lame duck” pres­i­dent.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has be­gun a se­ries of clean-up and de­silt­ing ex­er­cis­es across the coun­try to mit­i­gate flood­ing ahead of the rainy sea­son, ac­cord­ing to Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over what it de­scribes as a lack of ac­tion by the Gov­ern­ment on noise pol­lu­tion, while al­so rais­ing con­cern about the con­tin­ued in­ac­tion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).