For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young are set to go head-to-head in elec­tion pe­ti­tions re­lat­ed to last year’s gen­er­al elec­tions in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The Court of Ap­peal has been asked to re­view a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar law­suit against a woman ac­cused of us­ing un­due in­flu­ence to gain con­trol of an el­der­ly woman’s prop­er­ty and bank ac­counts.

The moth­er of Gol­con­da res­i­dent Sta­cy Sama­roo, whose body was found float­ing in the sea in Hope, To­ba­go, on Tues­day, said her daugh­ter was un­hap­py on the is­land.

Deputy Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali is warn­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to re­frain from light­ing fires to clear agri­cul­tur­al lands, af­ter an­oth­er bush fire erupt­ed along Rivulet Road in Cou­va, near the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

As the 2026 dry sea­son tight­ens its grip on the land­scape, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has is­sued a stark warn­ing, say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strug­gle with bush­fires is be­ing fu­elled by a “cul­ture of law­less­ness” re­gard­ing lit­ter­ing and il­le­gal dump­ing.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day fired his em­bat­tled Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Kristi Noem, af­ter mount­ing crit­i­cism over her lead­er­ship of the de­part­ment, in­clud­ing the han­dling of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s im­mi­gra­tion crack­down and dis­as­ter re­sponse.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has re­port­ed a tem­po­rary re­duc­tion in wa­ter pro­duc­tion at the De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (DE­SAL­COTT) fa­cil­i­ty due to re­cent changes in the qual­i­ty of the raw sea­wa­ter en­ter­ing the plant.

UE­FA still plans for Qatar to stage the Ar­genti­na vs. Spain game known as Fi­nalis­si­ma this month even as the emi­rate is tar­get­ed by Iran­ian mis­siles in the widen­ing Mid­dle East war start­ed by Is­rael and the Unit­ed States.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in Port of Spain has ad­vised US cit­i­zens in Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­pect in­creased se­cu­ri­ty ac­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of a na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency.

A stern warn­ing has come from Act­ing Di­vi­sion­al Fire Of­fi­cer Ansar Ali for peo­ple to re­frain from light­ing fires to clear agri­cul­tur­al lands af­ter an­oth­er bush fire erupt­ed along Rivulet Road in Cou­va, near the Point Lisas in­dus­tri­al re­gion.

Dwight Yorke's tenure as Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior men's foot­ball head coach has come to an end. This was con­firmed via a Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion me­dia re­lease on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, which stat­ed that Yorke's con­tract was ter­mi­nat­ed by mu­tu­al agree­ment af­ter dis­cus­sions were held be­tween the TTFA and Yorke re­gard­ing the fu­ture of the role, in­clud­ing re­vised con­trac­tu­al terms and re­mu­ner­a­tion aligned to the next phase of the pro­gramme. .

A 23-year-old Arou­ca man was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day for im­per­son­at­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.