In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Mwale Hen­ry is cau­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment against es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions with­in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), even as he ac­knowl­edges that con­cerns raised over the re­cent reap­point­ment of Dr Car­la Bar­nett are le­git­i­mate.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has ex­pressed shock and grief over the killing of busi­ness­man Steve Ghany Jr, re­veal­ing that he had spent time with him just days be­fore his death.

Af­ter years of lim­it­ed equip­ment and de­layed re­spons­es to emer­gen­cies, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS) has re­ceived a ma­jor op­er­a­tional boost with the han­dover of six new fire ten­ders val­ued at $69 mil­lion.

The in­ter­nal elec­tion for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil has been resched­uled to April 26, in­stead of the pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced April 19.

Al­der­men in the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion are rais­ing con­cerns that the Gov­ern­ment may be fa­cil­i­tat­ing sep­a­rate events by Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Ernesto Ke­sar, while the cor­po­ra­tion strug­gles to fund Bor­ough Day 2026.

A 44-year-old woman from St Joseph was shot dead af­ter be­ing lured out­side her home yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Dozens of res­i­dents of La Brea, who were af­fect­ed by an oil spill in De­cem­ber 2013, have suf­fered yet an­oth­er le­gal de­feat in their bid to sue the now-de­funct state oil com­pa­ny Petrotrin for neg­li­gence.

A 72-year-old Cunu­pia man ac­cused of stab­bing his po­lice of­fi­cer daugh­ter while in­tox­i­cat­ed has been or­dered to un­der­go a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion.

East­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a sus­pect­ed homi­cide, af­ter a man was found shot dead in Ve­ga de Oropouche on Mon­day night.

Armed ban­dits struck mul­ti­ple homes across Cen­tral Trinidad in a string of ear­ly-morn­ing in­va­sions on Tues­day, leav­ing be­hind ter­ri­fied fam­i­lies who were robbed of cash, valu­ables, and, in one case, a ve­hi­cle.

Com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist and gen­er­al man­ag­er of the ROOTS Foun­da­tion, Mti­ma Sol­wazi, says re­cent in­ci­dents in which chil­dren have been mur­dered, wound­ed or nar­row­ly es­caped gun­fire point to a break­down of com­mu­ni­ty-lev­el prin­ci­ples.

A 44-year-old woman from St Joseph was shot dead af­ter be­ing lured out­side her home on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.