One of the men await­ing tri­al for the mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal has suc­ceed­ed in a law­suit over a beat­ing he al­leged­ly suf­fered fol­low­ing a ri­ot at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, Arou­ca, at the start of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020.

A San­gre Grande school­boy was hos­pi­talised but not charged af­ter a con­fronta­tion with uni­formed po­lice of­fi­cers on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Re­tired of­fi­cers who served at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo are call­ing for a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the use of funds al­lo­cat­ed to the fa­cil­i­ty, as they are still await­ing gra­tu­ity years af­ter com­plet­ing their con­tracts.

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin has moved to al­lay con­cerns among lo­cal artistes, say­ing dis­cus­sions about pos­si­ble tax­a­tion re­main ex­plorato­ry and are far from be­com­ing gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy.

With less than three weeks to go be­fore the 50th Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has not con­firmed whether she will at­tend.

A High Court judge has re­mind­ed ed­u­ca­tors of their le­gal and moral du­ty to pro­tect stu­dents, warn­ing that fail­ure to re­port sex­u­al crimes against mi­nors could re­sult in fines or im­pris­on­ment.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has de­fend­ed the de­ci­sion to cut fund­ing for San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val 2026, say­ing the Min­istry and the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) re­mains ready to sup­port the fes­ti­val.

A month af­ter the cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, there is still no in­di­ca­tion of how Venezuela’s act­ing gov­ern­ment in­tends to en­gage with Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing a break­down in diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions late last year.

Pupils of the San­gre Grande Gov­ern­ment EC­CE Cen­tre read Dr. Seuss’ There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our So­lar Sys­tem aloud with Po­lice Con­sta­ble Dar­i­on Thomas for this years Read Aloud Day.

The Ro­man Catholic Church in Trinidad and To­ba­go is pi­lot­ing dig­i­tal of­fer­ings across six church­es. Ac­cord­ing to The Catholic News, “This ini­tia­tive forms part of the arch­dio­cese’s on­go­ing ef­forts to make stew­ard­ship safer, eas­i­er, and more ac­ces­si­ble while sup­port­ing parish­es in their pas­toral and ad­min­is­tra­tive work.”

The CARI­COM Em­i­nent Per­sons Group, made up of for­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Ken­ny An­tho­ny, Bruce Gold­ing and Per­ry Christie, at­tend­ed an Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States con­sul­ta­tive meet­ing on Haiti on Feb­ru­ary 2, 2026, in Wash­ing­ton, DC.

The Unit­ed States says it has not re­cent­ly held dis­cus­sions with Saint Lu­cia on in­ter­na­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion, in­clud­ing arrange­ments in­volv­ing Cu­ba.