Hav­ing lost four hous­es be­cause of land­slips, res­i­dents of Sa­ha­dath Trace, Princes Town, are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure that road re­pairs are done prop­er­ly, say­ing on­go­ing works in their com­mu­ni­ty have failed mul­ti­ple times, leav­ing them bat­tling with dust and in­con­ve­nience.

Corinth Hills res­i­dents say they are fed up with sewage spills, which are gush­ing from pipes near Build­ing 13, leav­ing res­i­dents ill and chil­dren’s bod­ies cov­ered in rash­es. Some fam­i­lies have evac­u­at­ed as the stench in­creas­es, flood­ing drains and walk­ways with soiled toi­let pa­per and raw filth.

A Laven­tille-based con­tract­ing com­pa­ny will have a long wait for the Court of Ap­peal to weigh in on con­tentious lit­i­ga­tion over a move by the gov­ern­ment to ter­mi­nate over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors, in­clud­ing it.

Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance has used Trinidad and To­ba­go as an ex­am­ple of high crime while de­fend­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s se­cu­ri­ty crack­down in Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Michael Dowlath, on Wednes­day host­ed a fo­rum with Prin­ci­pals of Gov­ern­ment and Gov­ern­ment-As­sist­ed Sec­ondary Schools un­der the theme “Lead­er­ship in Mo­tion – Ac­tion Plan Fo­rum.” The ses­sion was at­tend­ed by ap­prox­i­mate­ly 125 Prin­ci­pals and 18 School Su­per­vi­sors III rep­re­sent­ing the sev­en Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­tricts across Trinidad.

Min­is­ter of Health, Dr. Lack­ram Bo­doe, con­duct­ed an unan­nounced as­sess­ment of the Adult Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex on Tues­day.

West In­dies leg­end, Bri­an Lara, says the “con­ver­sa­tion needs to shift” a day af­ter he was brought in­to the cen­tre of a con­tro­ver­sy in­volv­ing for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Bar­ry Padarath.

Be­tween 11:00 p.m. on 19 Au­gust and 2:00 a.m. on 20 Au­gust 2025, In­ter-Agency Task Force of­fi­cers car­ried out a Rov­ing Road Checks ex­er­cise in East Port of Spain. Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion, they po­si­tioned them­selves along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way to in­ter­cept a ve­hi­cle sus­pect­ed of trans­port­ing drugs.

A de­ten­tion or­der has been is­sued for a sec­ond woman with an in­ti­mate con­nec­tion to a man now held at Staubles Bay. 

Ban­dits stole ap­pli­ances from two el­der­ly women in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Cen­tral Trinidad on Tues­day.

A dri­ver who stopped to as­sist vic­tims of a fa­tal ac­ci­dent on the Beetham High­way on Tues­day night was beat­en and robbed by a group of men.

A 19-year-old Aranguez man is this coun­try's lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty af­ter he died while dri­ving on the Beetham High­way on Tues­day night.