The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025—com­mon­ly re­ferred to as “stand your ground” leg­is­la­tion—was passed in the Sen­ate on Fri­day night with­out amend­ments.

School fights are in­creas­ing­ly tak­ing place af­ter school hours, rather than on cam­pus, fol­low­ing the de­ploy­ment of po­lice of­fi­cers to schools, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin said.

With the fes­tive shop­ping sea­son ap­proach­ing, Ch­agua­nas au­thor­i­ties are rolling out a plan to tack­le crime, con­ges­tion and pave­ment ob­struc­tion.

A home­less man has tak­en over the chil­dren’s play zone at Irv­ing Park in San Fer­nan­do, leav­ing fam­i­lies too fright­ened to use the space.

A tar­get­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Fri­day led to the ar­rest of three sus­pects as po­lice ramped up ef­forts to tack­le vi­o­lent and drug-re­lat­ed of­fences.

A 20-year-old woman was robbed and forced out of a car af­ter she board­ed a ve­hi­cle she be­lieved was le­git­i­mate trans­porta­tion ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

A 31-year-old man was killed and an­oth­er man wound­ed af­ter a gun­man opened fire out­side King Style Bar in San Juan on Fri­day night.

There will be a big­ger elec­torate and changes in two seats for To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly polls.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Kadi­jah Ameen says an in­ter­min­is­te­r­i­al team met with the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) on names the team flagged in the EBC’s 14th re­port - and the EBC sub­se­quent­ly found 29 er­rors - but Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP Kei­th Scot­land has said the meet­ings vi­o­lat­ed the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says on­ly the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) will re­ceive back­pay pay­ments this year.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) has se­cured an eleven per cent wage in­crease for work­ers at the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, con­clud­ing two long-out­stand­ing col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods dat­ing back to 2019 with the com­pa­ny.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is stand­ing by his de­ci­sion to amend the Liquor Li­cences Act to up­date the gam­ing tax fee and re­vise du­ties payable for liquor li­cences un­der the Sec­ond Sched­ule.