The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard in­ter­cept­ed a pirogue car­ry­ing four men and a quan­ti­ty of pack­ages sus­pect­ed to con­tain nar­cotics in the north­ern Gulf of Paria on Mon­day.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 pounds of waste were re­moved from the Port of Spain fore­shore dur­ing this year’s In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Cleanup (ICC) on Sat­ur­day.

The Sen­ate has ap­proved two amend­ments to the Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, Paria Fu­el Trad­ing and Guaracara Re­fin­ing Vest­ing Amend­ment Bill 2026, paving the way for the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) to be deemed the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union for work­ers at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing for both ex­ist­ing col­lec­tive agree­ments and fu­ture col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing.

Guyana po­lice Mon­day said they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of 72.1 pounds of co­caine, which was found last Fri­day, dur­ing an op­er­a­tion along the Five Miles-Itu­ni Trail, Up­per De­mer­ara Riv­er.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says its mem­bers will re­ceive out­stand­ing pay­ments from the gov­ern­ment in Sep­tem­ber for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023.

Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali says Guyana re­mains con­fi­dent that the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ) will rule in its favour in the decades old bor­der dis­pute with Venezuela.

New warn­ings from with­in the ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in­dus­try have re­vived a long-run­ning de­bate over whether ad­vanced AI could es­cape hu­man con­trol and ul­ti­mate­ly threat­en hu­man­i­ty’s sur­vival, and whether the com­pa­nies de­vel­op­ing the tech­nol­o­gy are do­ing enough to pre­vent such a sce­nario.

At­tor­ney Nafeesa Mo­hammed is ap­peal­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to use her up­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tions vis­it to speak with Syr­i­an lead­ers and oth­er au­thor­i­ties to help repa­tri­ate the 97 T&T women and chil­dren who have been in Mid­dle East­ern refugee camps since 2019.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­tained its Tier 2 rank­ing in the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of State’s An­nu­al Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Re­port, even as the coun­try’s lat­est na­tion­al re­port re­veals that 30 vic­tims of hu­man traf­fick­ing were iden­ti­fied in 2025, all fe­male and sub­ject­ed to sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter and Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Bar­ry Padarath is call­ing on the pub­lic to lob­by the Op­po­si­tion to sup­port any mea­sures aimed at fight­ing crime, whether through leg­is­la­tion or op­er­a­tional ini­tia­tives.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) has launched a sweep­ing in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to for­mer act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Keino Cox, with al­le­ga­tions rang­ing from pro­cure­ment breach­es and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance fail­ures to con­flicts of in­ter­est, fraud, sex­u­al ha­rass­ment and re­tal­i­a­tion against per­sons who raised con­cerns.

An­oth­er ma­jor wa­ter pipeline rup­ture in San Fer­nan­do left one busi­ness­man count­ing his loss­es yes­ter­day.