Two women po­lice con­sta­bles were among four women ar­rest­ed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion yes­ter­day, as po­lice launched a probe in­to an al­leged Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) scheme.

Three days af­ter gun­men am­bushed and shot a La Brea labour­er dur­ing a beach­front lime in Point Fortin, he suc­cumbed to his in­juries.

Po­lice said the 20-year-old, of Paramin Vil­lage, was dri­ving his white Maz­da Ax­ela around 2.45 pm when, up­on reach­ing the cor­ner of Beau Pres Road and Saut D’eau Road, he saw a dark-coloured Nis­san Qashqai ap­proach­ing from the op­po­site di­rec­tion.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­scribed as "mad­ness" and "pow­er­ful stu­pid", Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's call for the Coast Guard to use dead­ly force against any uniden­ti­fied ves­sel en­ter­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go from Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned the lat­est in­ci­dent of school vi­o­lence, in which five stu­dents were im­pli­cat­ed in a bru­tal and pre­med­i­tat­ed at­tack on a school­mate. The as­sault, which oc­curred on Tues­day, 3 June 2025, took place in­side a school bath­room and was filmed by by­standers.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has firm­ly de­nied claims that a para­mil­i­tary group en­tered Venezuela from Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­clar­ing the gov­ern­ment has seen no ev­i­dence to sup­port such as­ser­tions.

The UN Refugee Agency will per­ma­nent­ly close its na­tion­al of­fice in Trinidad and To­ba­go on 31 Au­gust 2025 due to glob­al fund­ing short­falls. The Port of Spain of­fice will stop serv­ing the pub­lic from 25 Ju­ly. All op­er­a­tions will be man­aged re­mote­ly by the UN­HCR’s Mul­ti-Coun­try Of­fice in Pana­ma, sup­port­ed by a min­i­mal staff pres­ence lo­cal­ly.

Of­fi­cials in some of the 12 coun­tries whose cit­i­zens will be soon banned from vis­it­ing the Unit­ed States de­nounced Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s move to res­ur­rect a hall­mark pol­i­cy of his first term and vowed Thurs­day to push back against the U.S.

The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da gov­ern­ment says it will ta­ble at the next sit­ting of Par­lia­ment, leg­is­la­tion aimed at ex­pung­ing the crim­i­nal records of in­di­vid­u­als con­vict­ed for pos­ses­sion of small quan­ti­ties of cannabis and grant­i­ng them of­fi­cial par­dons.

Fears mount­ed briefly with­in law en­force­ment cir­cles that se­nior Fraud Squad of­fi­cers and sen­si­tive case files may soon be dis­placed from their cur­rent of­fices on the sev­enth floor of the Min­istry of Fi­nance’s Wright­son Road build­ing. But Min­is­ter of Plan­ning Kennedy Swarats­ingh de­nies any­one will be dis­placed. 

A con­trac­tor is apol­o­gis­ing to Diego Mar­tin res­i­dents, who were af­fect­ed by a flood­ing, sludge and rub­ble on the week­end of May 18.

Ba­hamas Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis, an­nounced on Thurs­day the ac­ces­sion of the Com­mon­wealth of the Ba­hamas to the Re­gion­al Agree­ment on Ac­cess to In­for­ma­tion, Pub­lic Par­tic­i­pa­tion and Jus­tice in En­vi­ron­men­tal Mat­ters in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (“Es­cazú Agree­ment”).