While two se­cu­ri­ty an­a­lysts have en­dorsed the con­tin­ued tenure of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro as he em­barks on his sec­ond year in of­fice, they in­sist that sus­tain­abil­i­ty will be key to main­tain­ing the gains achieved dur­ing his first year.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) lead­er­ship is ex­pect­ed to ex­am­ine in­ter­nal­ly a let­ter from San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning call­ing for ac­tion on con­cerns raised by mem­bers of the con­stituen­cy, in­clud­ing an al­leged con­flict of in­ter­est in­volv­ing a PNM ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber who al­so heads the con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive.

Rhon­dall Fee­les, pres­i­dent of the Fa­thers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FATT), has is­sued a call to the Gov­ern­ment and the labour move­ment to leg­is­late sub­stan­tial pa­ter­ni­ty leave of eight to 12 weeks, ar­gu­ing that mean­ing­ful parental rights for men are long over­due.

The trade union move­ment is seek­ing le­gal ad­vice from a se­nior con­sti­tu­tion­al at­tor­ney over the ar­rest of ac­tivist Trade Unions Move to Chal­lenge Labour Day Po­lice Ac­tion and her moth­er dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, with Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette warn­ing that the in­ci­dent rais­es se­ri­ous con­sti­tu­tion­al con­cerns and re­flects what he de­scribed as an in­creas­ing­ly em­bold­ened po­lice ser­vice un­der the State of Emer­gency.

A High Court judge has award­ed more than $225,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a Ch­agua­nas me­chan­ic and farmer who was re-pros­e­cut­ed for lar­ce­ny near­ly a decade af­ter the charge against him had al­ready been dis­missed.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son has praised the con­tri­bu­tion of the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment, say­ing the val­ues of faith, ser­vice and uni­ty are crit­i­cal as the coun­try con­fronts grow­ing so­cial chal­lenges.

Con­fined to a wheel­chair, the el­der­ly moth­er of 37-year-old Michael Williams could on­ly watch in hor­ror as her son ran for his life from a re­lent­less gun­man on Sat­ur­day.

De­spite be­ing spared ma­jor flood­ing over the past two years, the start of the rainy sea­son has once again left Wood­land res­i­dents on edge, with many brac­ing for the loss­es and in­con­ve­nience they en­dured in pre­vi­ous years.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte is re­ject­ing sug­ges­tions that a so-called “pro­tect­ed list” at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) was cre­at­ed to favour of­fi­cials of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), in­sist­ing the prac­tice has ex­ist­ed for decades and was nev­er in­tend­ed to ex­empt any­one from pay­ing elec­tric­i­ty bills.

 Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is out of the coun­try un­til Wednes­day to at­tend a fu­ner­al, with Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John serv­ing as Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter in her ab­sence.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) and the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) have con­demned what they de­scribed as ex­ces­sive po­lice ac­tion dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad on June 19.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, SC, MP, will be out of the ju­ris­dic­tion un­til Wednes­day, June 24, 2026, to at­tend the fu­ner­al of a fam­i­ly mem­ber over­seas.