A man was killed and a shot­gun seized dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in the East­ern Di­vi­sion on Mon­day morn­ing.

For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year, Trinidad and To­ba­go will be rep­re­sent­ed at the Eth­nic Roots In­ter­na­tion­al The­atre Fes­ti­val (FI­ER), to be held from No­vem­ber 5 to 8 in the Arch­i­pel­ago of San An­drés, Old Prov­i­dence, and Saint Cather­ine. The par­tic­i­pa­tion is a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the Em­bassy of Colom­bia in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the lo­cal cul­tur­al sec­tor.

The Chil­dren’s Life Fund Au­thor­i­ty (CLFA) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of a new Board of Man­age­ment for a three-year term, ef­fec­tive 24th Oc­to­ber 2025. The Board will be chaired by Dr. Kevon Din­di­al.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has sought to as­sure the pub­lic that the re­cent­ly an­nounced mass de­por­ta­tion ex­er­cise will ap­ply on­ly to in­di­vid­u­als al­ready ar­rest­ed for crim­i­nal of­fences and cur­rent­ly held in the na­tion’s pris­ons or de­ten­tion cen­tres.

The Rent As­sess­ment Board will have to play an even more rig­or­ous mon­i­tor­ing role ahead to en­sure that the Land­lord Sur­charge im­posed in the 2026 Bud­get is not un­fair­ly passed on to oth­er peo­ple, says Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro last night con­firmed the sus­pen­sion of gas agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go, say­ing this was due to the re­cent hos­tile ac­tions tak­en by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Gov­ern­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has crit­i­cised Cari­com, de­scrib­ing it as an “un­re­li­able part­ner” that has cho­sen to side with Venezuela over Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Three Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment min­is­ters yes­ter­day crit­i­cised the T&T Gov­ern­ment for its sup­port of the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary pres­ence in the Caribbean, warn­ing this coun­try not to al­low it­self to be used in any threat to the re­gion’s peace.

The scenic beach­front Mt Plaisir Es­tate Ho­tel has been ranked by Tri­pAd­vi­sor—a glob­al trav­el guid­ance plat­form—in the top ten per cent of ho­tels world­wide.

Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions An­tho­ny Bryan has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go must pro­ceed with ex­treme cau­tion as re­gion­al ten­sions con­tin­ue to es­ca­late be­tween Venezuela and the Unit­ed States, not­ing that mis­steps could have se­ri­ous con­se­quences for the twin-is­land na­tion.

Venezuela’s de­ci­sion to sus­pend gas agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go has prompt­ed calls for calm, diplo­ma­cy, and re­newed eco­nom­ic fo­cus from lo­cal busi­ness lead­ers and econ­o­mists.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce is adding its voice to calls for peace in the South­ern Caribbean, as the Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly dis­tances the is­land from ris­ing ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.