A 26-year-old man was found dead in bush­es near his home in New Grant, Princes Town, on Mon­day af­ter rel­a­tives raised con­cern about his con­di­tion.

A DG Homes ma­chine op­er­a­tor was shot and killed af­ter leav­ing a cab­in at a Matu­ra re­sort to get ice ear­ly on Mon­day night, as gun­men con­tin­ue tar­get­ing peo­ple linked to slain busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra.

A serv­ing po­lice of­fi­cer has been placed un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion, af­ter be­ing iden­ti­fied for sup­ply­ing op­er­a­tional in­tel­li­gence to or­gan­ised crime groups, cre­at­ing a risk of im­mi­nent at­tacks be­tween ri­val gangs us­ing high-pow­ered firearms in pub­lic spaces.

The with­draw­al of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary per­son­nel from To­ba­go con­tin­ued yes­ter­day with the de­par­ture of a large con­tin­gent aboard an At­las Air air­craft.

Blood­shed con­tin­ues de­spite the State of Emer­gency (SoE), as the teenage son of late Sea Lots com­mu­ni­ty leader Cedric “Burkie” Burke was among three youths killed when gun­men stormed a house in Pe­nal yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge say a cur­few is not need­ed at this time, de­spite con­tin­ued killings dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Just over a week af­ter San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra was gunned down near his busi­ness­place, res­i­dents in the near­by streets say they are fear­ful in the af­ter­math of the at­tack.

Two months af­ter ten­sions arose be­tween Evolv­ing Tec­Knolo­gies & En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Co Ltd (Eteck) chair Sushilla Ramkissoon-Mark and line Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, the state en­ter­prise has been moved to Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein’s port­fo­lio.

Dis­card­ed ply­wood and wood­en beams now lie scat­tered across the Ed­die Hart Recre­ation Grounds in Tacarigua, where con­struc­tion of a pavil­ion was ex­pect­ed to be un­der­way.

Stu­dents from Tu­na­puna Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry School have been named the re­gion­al cham­pi­ons of the 2025-2026 Young En­vi­ron­men­tal Sci­en­tist Com­pe­ti­tion.

Twelve years af­ter the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) ac­quired Sanc­tu­ary Vil­las in Black Rock for $24 mil­lion, the prop­er­ty is now up for sale.

In­dus­tri­al ten­sions in the pub­lic health sec­tor are set to in­ten­si­fy, af­ter Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art warned that nurs­es may con­sid­er with­hold­ing ex­tra-du­ty ser­vices in re­sponse to Gov­ern­ment’s move to stan­dard­ise pool rates.