Guyana's Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali says an in­ter­na­tion­al and in­de­pen­dent Com­mis­sion of In­quiry will be es­tab­lished to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the cap­siz­ing of the fer­ry, the MV Bari­ma.

Two prison of­fi­cers and nine peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) have been charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences fol­low­ing a pris­on­er pro­cess­ing ex­er­cise at two cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties.

Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) dis­man­tled an al­leged hu­man traf­fick­ing net­work dur­ing a mul­ti-agency op­er­a­tion span­ning Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­mer min­is­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty Gary Grif­fith is call­ing for an im­me­di­ate in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to how an au­dio record­ing—pur­port­ed­ly cap­tur­ing Syr­i­an busi­ness­woman Star Sab­ga mak­ing com­ments that have been de­scribed as an al­leged threat against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar—was leaked, ar­gu­ing that the ap­par­ent breach of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency's (SSA) in­tel­li­gence sys­tems pos­es a greater threat than the con­tents of the record­ing it­self.

The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) has re­port­ed its high­est an­nu­al prof­it in 17 years, post­ing a prof­it af­ter tax of TT$214 mil­lion for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed March 31, 2026.

A 46-year-old Pe­nal man who was want­ed by South­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice was shot and killed by of­fi­cers af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a gun at them at a house on Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, on Thurs­day night.

An ear­ly morn­ing DUI (Dri­ving Un­der the In­flu­ence) op­er­a­tion on Sat­ur­day led to the ar­rest of ten men, in­clud­ing a British na­tion­al, po­lice said.

The Unit­ed States has grad­u­al­ly ex­pand­ed the scope of its at­tacks against Iran over the course of two weeks of pun­ish­ing airstrikes that in­creas­ing­ly re­sem­ble the war’s open­ing salvos.

Health work­ers at an Ebo­la treat­ment cen­tre in east­ern Con­go went on strike Sat­ur­day over pay­ment is­sues, dis­rupt­ing care for pa­tients in the epi­cen­tre of the coun­try’s rapid­ly grow­ing out­break.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s place­ment on a list of coun­tries set to face in­creased tar­iffs from the Unit­ed States on Thurs­day has led to a blame game be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and the Op­po­si­tion.

BANGKOK — US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est set of tar­iffs drew im­me­di­ate ob­jec­tions from Amer­i­ca’s trad­ing part­ners, in­clud­ing Chi­na and Japan, with Aus­tralia’s trade min­is­ter slam­ming them as “com­plete­ly un­jus­ti­fied” yes­ter­day.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go marks 188 years since eman­ci­pa­tion, the Pan African Fes­ti­val re­turns to­day with a re­newed call to deep­en un­der­stand­ing of African his­to­ry, cul­ture and iden­ti­ty while con­fronting the lega­cies of colo­nial­ism.