Golds­bor­ough farmer Roland Mur­ray has blamed the is­land’s food short­age square­ly on To­bag­o­ni­ans, ex­press­ing dis­may that To­ba­go has be­come al­most en­tire­ly re­liant on im­ports from Trinidad.

Fish prices have climbed this Lenten sea­son, but in­stead of an in­crease in sales, fish­er­folk in south Trinidad say busi­ness has slowed dras­ti­cal­ly, adding to months of fi­nan­cial strug­gles. This mir­rors re­cent lo­cal re­ports that high prices and scarce catch­es are slow­ing Lenten fish sales at mar­kets such as San Fer­nan­do and Ota­heite Bay. Some ven­dors said cus­tomers are few and sales have been poor for weeks.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide clear ex­pla­na­tions for re­port­ed short­age of goods in To­ba­go, in­sist­ing that com­plaints from res­i­dents and busi­ness­es can­not be dis­missed.

The State is set to pay com­pen­sa­tion to a fe­male fire of­fi­cer who was al­leged­ly in­jured while test­ing a wood­en lad­der in 2024.

Very lit­tle progress was made yes­ter­day in a nov­el law­suit filed by five for­mer res­i­dents of St Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home, who al­lege they suf­fered phys­i­cal and sex­u­al abuse while liv­ing there.

A High Court de­ci­sion block­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of an au­dit re­port in­to firearm users’ li­cens­es (FULs) is­sued be­tween 2016 and 2021 has been over­turned. The re­port was com­mis­sioned by the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC).

Ac­tivists and mi­grant ad­vo­cates are urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to ex­tend the mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion pe­ri­od, warn­ing that vul­ner­a­ble in­dige­nous mi­grants—par­tic­u­lar­ly mem­bers of the Warao com­mu­ni­ty—risk be­ing ex­clud­ed due to lack of doc­u­men­ta­tion, lim­it­ed ac­cess to tech­nol­o­gy, and fear of com­ing for­ward.

The Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC), the dis­ci­pli­nary body over­see­ing the ex­ec­u­tive of the po­lice ser­vice, says it will pro­vide a full re­sponse to a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter sent by ac­tivist Umar Ab­dul­lah re­gard­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro’s de­ci­sion to wear the Pun­ish­er sym­bol on his uni­form.

Two res­i­dents of the Man­go Rose Hous­ing Com­plex in east Port-of-Spain have ex­pressed con­cern that the com­pound may con­tin­ue to be the site of vi­o­lent in­ci­dents, call­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to ad­dress sev­er­al press­ing is­sues.

Three Ap­peal Court judges on Mon­day dis­missed a chal­lenge by the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) af­ter it re­fused to di­vulge full in­for­ma­tion to ac­tivist Ravi Bal­go­b­in Ma­haraj un­der the guise of it be­ing a mat­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

A me­chan­ic from Ch­agua­nas has been ac­quit­ted of mur­der­ing his friend on New Year’s Day in 2018. 

A High Court Judge has stat­ed that cit­i­zens should not be pre­clud­ed from ac­cess­ing jus­tice due to a lack of fi­nan­cial re­sources.