A Pe­nal woman got a shock on Wednes­day af­ter dis­cov­er­ing the handy­man she had hired ly­ing dead in her gar­den.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion has an­nounced the or­der of ap­pear­ance for the se­mi-fi­nal round of the Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­ject­ed claims of a cov­er-up as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the po­lice killing of Joshua Sama­roo and shoot­ing of his com­mon-law wife Ka­ia Sealy, say­ing au­thor­i­ties must be al­lowed to com­plete their work and “let the chips fall where they may.”

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is no longer pulling his punch­es re­gard­ing the per­for­mance of cur­rent Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, whom he has de­scribed as “des­per­ate,” “pet­ty” and “com­i­cal.”

Al­though the State of Emer­gency (SoE) end­ed last week­end, the wives of in­mates Ra­jaee Ali and Earl Richards say their loved ones con­tin­ue to be de­nied ba­sic rights at Teteron Bar­racks, Ch­aguara­mas.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says al­though most of the de­tainees held un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) were re­leased af­ter it end­ed, it does not mean they can’t be charged in the fu­ture.

Crim­i­nals are be­ing warned by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to be­have them­selves for Car­ni­val, as the au­thor­i­ties will be out in full force to en­sure law and or­der.

The mur­der toll in­creased by three be­tween Tues­day night and yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing shoot­ings in Pe­tit Val­ley, Tu­na­puna and Bon Air, re­spec­tive­ly.

A group of civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions, trade unions and po­lit­i­cal move­ments gath­ered out­side the Unit­ed States Em­bassy at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah yes­ter­day to protest the US eco­nom­ic block­ade of Cu­ba, de­scrib­ing it as il­le­gal and harm­ful to the Cuban peo­ple.

Ri­val­do Lon­don claimed the Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee’s 2026 Young Kings crown at the Car­ni­val City, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day night.

While the Ve­hi­cle Man­age­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (VM­COTT) is seek­ing to trans­form the en­ti­ty from a ma­jor loss mak­er in­to a high-rev­enue gen­er­a­tor, the Pub­lic Ac­counts (En­ter­pris­es) Com­mit­tee heard that the State com­pa­ny is con­strained by mil­lions of dol­lars owed by gov­ern­ment agen­cies and for­mer ex­ec­u­tives.

The Op­po­si­tion is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee and Min­is­ters in the Hous­ing Min­istry, Phillip Alexan­der and Anil Roberts.