Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has as­sured Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces (NPUPS) work­ers that their out­stand­ing salaries will be paid soon.

The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) has in­struct­ed its at­tor­neys to is­sue a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter against the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS), seek­ing to re­cov­er more than $82,000 in mem­ber­ship dues it claims were de­duct­ed from of­fi­cers’ salaries but nev­er re­mit­ted.

Mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer PC Rom­mel Dou­glas was giv­en a mil­i­tary send-off yes­ter­day at the Mor­vant Cen­tral Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, where his fi­nal farewell was at­tend­ed by close friends, fam­i­ly mem­bers and col­leagues.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has an­nounced the tem­po­rary open­ing of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) to light mo­tor ve­hi­cles on Sat­ur­day to help ease traf­fic dur­ing the 24th Edi­tion of the Laven­tille Eman­ci­pa­tion Steel­band Street Pa­rade.

A 29-year-old cashier has been grant­ed $85,000 bail while two Venezue­lan na­tion­als were re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter they ap­peared be­fore the South B Mas­ters Court charged with lar­ce­ny ser­vant in con­nec­tion with the theft of al­most $19,000 worth of goods from a Mara­bel­la su­per­mar­ket.

A tar­get­ed po­lice op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go on Thurs­day re­sult­ed in the seizure of an il­le­gal firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, nar­cotics and cash, with two peo­ple ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

Three men, in­clud­ing two su­per­mar­ket se­cu­ri­ty guards, were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice al­leged­ly found them in pos­ses­sion of il­le­gal firearms dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in south Trinidad on Wednes­day.

The cou­ple who were de­tained in con­nec­tion with the death of 25-year-old Shyana Ruiz last Wednes­day, have been charged with mur­der.

Caribbean Air­lines car­ried 66,814 pas­sen­gers be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go in Ju­ly, as it in­creased flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge to meet high­er de­mand dur­ing the peak sum­mer trav­el sea­son.

The Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go is invit­ing the pub­lic to cel­e­brate World Steel­pan Day 2026 with an af­ter­noon of mu­sic, cul­ture and his­to­ry at Mille Fleurs in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is urg­ing politi­cians in Trinidad to show greater re­straint and ma­tu­ri­ty amid es­ca­lat­ing racial ten­sions in the coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing cit­i­zens to play a greater role in re­duc­ing crime, say­ing pub­lic safe­ty is a shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and not sole­ly the job of the coun­try's law en­force­ment agen­cies.