A Trinidad man who was re­port­ed miss­ing for al­most a week was found dead in his To­ba­go apart­ment yes­ter­day by his co-work­er.

To­ba­go po­lice are search­ing for the sus­pect be­hind the is­land’s fifth mur­der for 2025, af­ter 26-year-old shop own­er Ky­lon Mal­colm was gunned down at his busi­ness place in Pem­broke on Sun­day night.

Just a week af­ter wel­com­ing his 12th child, a Princes Town fa­ther was mur­dered in a road­side at­tack near his moth­er’s home on Sun­day night.

A Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) em­ploy­ee was killed yes­ter­day, as he stood un­der a tent along La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant.

David Greeves, a labour­er of Navet Road, San Fer­nan­do, died at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sun­day, while be­ing treat­ed for smoke in­hala­tion and burns.

A po­lice trainee who crashed in­to a stalled mo­torist along the Beetham High­way in the wee hours on Sun­day and end­ed up in­jur­ing the dri­ver was grant­ed bail af­ter fail­ing three con­sec­u­tive breathal­yser tests.

A su­per­vi­sor, cashier, and se­cu­ri­ty guard work­ing at the KFC, Ch­agua­nas branch, were tied up and robbed on Sun­day night by three armed men who lat­er fled with an undis­closed amount of cash.

Some 5,248 pay­ments have been is­sued for the School Sup­plies and Book Grant Pro­gramme for the up­com­ing aca­d­e­m­ic year, and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says the re­main­ing pay­ments should be com­ple­tion by Sep­tem­ber 5, 2025.

Fire One Fire­works will close all its out­lets on In­de­pen­dence Day, align­ing with the Gov­ern­ment’s de­c­la­ra­tion of a Na­tion­al Day of Prayer and Re­flec­tion in place of the tra­di­tion­al pa­rade and fire­works dis­play.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al, Garvin Nicholas, says the Trinidad and To­ba­go gov­ern­ment should not read­i­ly aban­don its clos­est al­lies to ap­pease “those who would eas­i­ly dis­card us”, as he ques­tioned Port-of-Spain’s an­nounce­ment that it ful­ly sup­ports the de­ci­sion of the Unit­ed States to de­ploy “mil­i­tary as­sets” in­to the Caribbean re­gion to de­stroy what it de­scribed as “the ter­ror­ist drug car­tels”.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s spe­cial en­voy Kei­th Kel­logg said in Kyiv on Mon­day that of­fi­cials are “work­ing very, very hard” on ef­forts to end the three-year war be­tween Rus­sia and Ukraine, as a lack of progress fu­els doubts about whether a peace set­tle­ment could be on the hori­zon.

The Na­tion­al Ram­leela Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NRCTT) is seek­ing $1 mil­lion to stage this year’s cel­e­bra­tions.