Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion are warn­ing dri­vers em­ployed with ride-share com­pa­nies to ex­er­cise cau­tion when agree­ing to meet po­ten­tial cus­tomers, not­ing there has been an in­crease in re­port­ed rob­beries.

Busi­ness­man Gary Aboud is warn­ing that mem­bers of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty may even­tu­al­ly choose to leave the coun­try if what he de­scribes as grow­ing racial tar­get­ing and po­lit­i­cal hos­til­i­ty con­tin­ues.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has thrown her full sup­port be­hind the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s warn­ing that no seg­ment of so­ci­ety, in­clud­ing the so-called “one per cent”, is be­yond the reach of the law, al­leg­ing that some cur­rent and for­mer se­nior bank­ing of­fi­cials fa­cil­i­tat­ed for­eign cur­ren­cy trans­ac­tions for lo­cal busi­ness­es linked to in­ter­na­tion­al drug car­tels.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-crime plan is al­ready de­liv­er­ing mea­sur­able re­sults, but crim­i­nal syn­di­cates re­main suf­fi­cient­ly or­gan­ised and dan­ger­ous that au­thor­i­ties re­quire a fur­ther three months un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) to com­plete in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions and se­cure long-term gains.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) re­mains will­ing to work with Gov­ern­ment in the fight against crime, but warned that co­op­er­a­tion should not be mis­tak­en for un­con­di­tion­al sup­port, as she crit­i­cised the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s re­quest for a fur­ther three-month ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Of­fi­cial at­ten­dance records say 80,824 spec­ta­tors packed the new­ly ren­o­vat­ed Es­ta­dio Azteca in Mex­i­co City, Mex­i­co, for yes­ter­day’s open­ing 2026 FI­FA World Cup match be­tween Mex­i­co and South Africa.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is slam­ming the two To­ba­go MPs over their sup­port of the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency, la­belling them as “blind pup­pets” of the Gov­ern­ment.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to ex­tend the sec­ond State of Emer­gency (SoE) for an­oth­er three months, cit­ing thou­sands of po­lice op­er­a­tions, ar­rests and crim­i­nal charges as ev­i­dence the SoE mea­sures have helped law en­force­ment dis­rupt crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and make sig­nif­i­cant progress in the fight against crime.

The coali­tion of 13 in­de­pen­dent trade unions and the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) have sharply crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­fence of con­tro­ver­sial State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions re­strict­ing pub­lic as­sem­blies with­in 500 me­tres of 15 des­ig­nat­ed lo­ca­tions, ar­gu­ing that democ­ra­cy can­not be re­duced to a cal­cu­la­tion of land space.

Richard Re­nalis has been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of 12-year-old Erin school­girl Mer­cedez Layne.

A 25-year-old Las Lo­mas man who stabbed his preg­nant moth­er to death in 2019 be­cause he was an­gry over be­ing ne­glect­ed as a child will have to serve al­most a decade longer in prison be­fore he is re­leased.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Scrap Iron Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTSI­DA), Al­lan Fer­gu­son, says one rec­om­men­da­tion to ad­dress cop­per theft is to cen­tralise all scrap yards in or­der to bet­ter mon­i­tor deal­ers’ in­ven­to­ry.