A man ac­cused of sex­u­al of­fences against a mi­nor has lost his ap­peal against a High Court Mas­ter’s re­fusal to dis­charge him af­ter pros­e­cu­tors missed dead­lines for fil­ing ev­i­dence.

Days af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) urged the Gov­ern­ment to in­tro­duce cam­paign fi­nance re­form, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has added his voice, cit­ing new al­le­ga­tions that San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra fi­nanced the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’s (UNC) 2025 cam­paign in the con­stituen­cy.

Sus­pects in the mur­ders of Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit and fa­ther of two Ra­jku­mar Pope are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day.

The To­ba­go Di­vi­sion of the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has voiced strong op­po­si­tion to any move to re­move the sub­sidy for the Caribbean Air­lines air­bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment has re­vealed that a to­tal of $16.1 mil­lion was spent to es­tab­lish and op­er­ate the Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive dur­ing Car­ni­val 2026.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford has called on par­ty leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les to safe­guard the par­ty ahead of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions by re­mov­ing Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj.

The Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment has re­vealed that the to­tal cost to es­tab­lish and op­er­ate the Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive dur­ing the Car­ni­val 2026 pe­ri­od amount­ed to $16,164,663.75.

The U.S. on Wednes­day lift­ed sanc­tions on Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, ac­cord­ing to an Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol en­try on the Trea­sury De­part­ment web­site.

Two hik­ers who be­came lost in the North­ern Range be­tween Mon­day March 30 and Tues­day March 31, 2026 were res­cued by of­fi­cers of the Air Sup­port Unit.

Iran kept up its at­tacks on Is­rael and Per­sian Gulf neigh­bors on Wednes­day as airstrikes pound­ed Tehran and U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump again made con­tra­dic­to­ry state­ments about whether he was ready to wind down the war or es­ca­late it.

The Cen­tral Bank of The Ba­hamas (CBB) says while the eco­nom­ic out­look for the coun­try re­mains pos­i­tive, it could al­so be “sig­nif­i­cant­ly” erod­ed if the Mid­dle East con­flict be­comes pro­tract­ed.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a handy­man’s gold ring from a wash­room at the St James Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my ear­ly on Tues­day morn­ing.