Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion de­bat­ed the elec­tric­i­ty sur­charge and the new land­lord busi­ness tax in the Fi­nance Bill, 2025, with both sides bat­tling over whether busi­ness­es or the gen­er­al pub­lic will ul­ti­mate­ly foot the new bills.

The ab­sorp­tion of 800 Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers in­to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed over the next nine months.

A 40-year-old Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer has been grant­ed $150,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court along­side a col­league for al­leged­ly steal­ing $14,000 in pow­er tools from a stolen ve­hi­cle they re­cov­ered. 

A pair of sib­lings from south Trinidad are set to re­ceive over $10 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion from the State over the un­law­ful sus­pen­sion of their li­cences for their gas sta­tions in 2012. 

What start­ed off as a birth­day cel­e­bra­tion end­ed in tragedy af­ter a 26-year-old man was killed and his friends in­jured in an ac­ci­dent near Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A shoot­ing in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Thurs­day night has claimed the life of a man and in­jured a woman.

An Arou­ca man was robbed of his car, a gold chain and $60,000 cash in Tacarigua, af­ter the ban­dits bounced his car, forc­ing him to stop whilst in traf­fic.

Down­town Port-of-Spain is start­ing to feel the ef­fects of a long-await­ed crack­down on il­le­gal park­ing, with 133 ve­hi­cles re­moved in the first week since the city’s en­force­ment ini­tia­tive was re­sumed.

A 26-year-old To­ba­go man has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody for the mur­der of US cit­i­zen Christo­pher Brown.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) and Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre have fi­nalised an 11 per cent wage in­crease for work­ers cov­er­ing two pe­ri­ods: June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2022, and June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025.

Venezuela’s in­ter­na­tion­al air links are rapid­ly dwin­dling as three more car­ri­ers have sus­pend­ed flights to the coun­try. On Thurs­day, Pana­ma-based Co­pa Air­lines sus­pend­ed flights for two days due to “in­ter­mit­tent nav­i­ga­tion sig­nal is­sues” re­port­ed by its pi­lots. That sus­pen­sion has now been ex­tend­ed to De­cem­ber 12. In a state­ment, the air­line said the safe­ty of pas­sen­gers and crew re­mains its top pri­or­i­ty, and it will con­tin­ue to “eval­u­ate the con­di­tions that guar­an­tee op­er­a­tional safe­ty”. Colom­bian low-cost car­ri­er Wingo has sim­i­lar­ly sus­pend­ed flights un­til De­cem­ber 12. Wingo is owned by Co­pa Hold­ings, the par­ent com­pa­ny of Co­pa Air­lines. Colom­bian air­line SATE­NA has al­so in­def­i­nite­ly sus­pend­ed flights, pledg­ing to re­sume ser­vice once in­ter­na­tion­al au­thor­i­ties cer­ti­fy it is safe to do so.

A Ch­agua­nas man was killed and a woman in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in En­ter­prise last night.