Trade unions are ex­pect­ed to take to the streets to­day, but in a marked shift from re­cent years, the dom­i­nant mes­sage is like­ly to be one of cau­tious praise rather than out­right protest.

A Ch­agua­nas man iden­ti­fied by po­lice as a sus­pect­ed ex­tor­tion­ist was killed dur­ing a “Con­trolled Pay­ment Op­er­a­tion” con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit yes­ter­day.

A Pe­nal man who killed his broth­er dur­ing a vi­o­lent con­fronta­tion has been sen­tenced to ten years in prison af­ter the court ac­cept­ed that he act­ed un­der provo­ca­tion while try­ing to pro­tect their el­der­ly moth­er.

Ig­nor­ing the dan­ger to her­self, Po­lice Con­sta­ble Dar­lene Renn stepped be­tween a man and the woman he was beat­ing—a split-sec­ond de­ci­sion she be­lieves may have saved the woman’s life.

More than a week af­ter nine-year-old J’Lay­na Arm­strong and three oth­ers were gunned down on La­dy Young Road in Mor­vant, po­lice say no ar­rests have been made in con­nec­tion with the quadru­ple mur­der.

New head of the T&T Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS), As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar, says po­lice cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley’s col­leagues are still very trau­ma­tised by her mur­der.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has fall­en 13 places in the 2026 World Press Free­dom In­dex re­leased yes­ter­day by Re­porters With­out Bor­ders, de­spite main­tain­ing what the re­port de­scribes as a “good record” and a “vi­brant me­dia land­scape.”

Jet ski own­ers and op­er­a­tors say their liveli­hoods hang in the bal­ance as the court to­day con­sid­ers whether to con­tin­ue re­stric­tions im­posed fol­low­ing a fa­tal ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point.

Po­lice seized more than $3 mil­lion worth of co­caine fol­low­ing a ve­hi­cle in­ter­cep­tion ex­er­cise in Freeport ear­ly to­day.

Po­lice are cur­rent­ly at the scene of a mur­der at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah (QPS). The vic­tim, who has been iden­ti­fied as Ma­sud Pros­per, 49, from Bel­mont, was shot mul­ti­ple times at around 5.30 pm while he sat in a black Lancer car, which had been parked in the park­ing area in front of the food court.

More fe­male en­tre­pre­neurs are en­ter­ing non-tra­di­tion­al ar­eas of the ser­vice in­dus­try, ac­cord­ing to Na­talya Ra­hamat­u­la, SME Re­source Cen­tre Strat­e­gy Of­fi­cer at JMMB Group.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion ad­vis­es the pub­lic that an ad­di­tion­al pay­ment op­tion is now avail­able for Fixed Penal­ty No­tices.