For­mer pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Car­mona says par­ents must ex­am­ine their role in shap­ing chil­dren who be­come in­volved in se­ri­ous crimes, warn­ing that when a child is con­vict­ed of of­fences such as mur­der, rape or vi­o­lence, the fail­ure of­ten be­gins long be­fore that child en­ters the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

RM De Souza Fu­ner­al Home has ex­pand­ed its op­er­a­tions with the open­ing of a new cre­ma­to­ri­um fa­cil­i­ty in Diego Mar­tin, mark­ing a ma­jor in­vest­ment in West Trinidad and broad­en­ing the range of end-of-life ser­vices avail­able to fam­i­lies.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s counter-ter­ror­ism strat­e­gy is plac­ing greater em­pha­sis on fi­nan­cial over­sight, bor­der con­trols and in­ter-agency co­op­er­a­tion as Gov­ern­ment moves to im­ple­ment the 2025 Na­tion­al Coun­tert­er­ror­ism Strat­e­gy.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anil Nand­lall is de­fend­ing the de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a Com­mis­sion of In­quiry in­to the MV Bari­ma tragedy that left 72 peo­ple dead and more than 30 oth­ers miss­ing and pre­sumed dead when the ves­sel cap­sized on Ju­ly 18.

Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of po­ten­tial­ly us­ing the wa­ter sup­ply as a tool for po­lit­i­cal vic­tim­i­sa­tion, say­ing res­i­dents in Ari­ma and parts of East Trinidad be­lieve their wors­en­ing wa­ter short­ages be­gan af­ter the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Two men were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice al­leged­ly found am­mu­ni­tion and sus­pect­ed house-break­ing im­ple­ments dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion ear­ly Tues­day.

The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) will pay trib­ute to West In­dies crick­et leg­end Sir Garfield Sobers with a minute's ap­plause be­fore the open­ing match at each tour­na­ment venue this sea­son.

The as­so­ci­a­tion of Eu­ro­pean soc­cer leagues called for gov­er­nance re­form of FI­FA on Wednes­day, adding to the mount­ing pres­sure on pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no fol­low­ing his failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup.

The U.S. South­ern Com­mand on Mon­day ac­ti­vat­ed a Joint Task Force West­ern Hemi­sphere (JTF-WHEM) head­quar­ters that will syn­chro­nize U.S. mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions with al­lies and part­ners —in­clud­ing T&T—to counter threats, strength­en re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty, and re­spond rapid­ly to crises across the West­ern Hemi­sphere.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said a deal on the Strait of Hor­muz could come as ear­ly as Wednes­day, as Iran and Oman inched to­ward an agree­ment to re­open the crit­i­cal wa­ter­way and po­ten­tial­ly help bring an end to the war.

More than 300 work­ers at the Hilton Trinidad & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre are fac­ing an un­cer­tain fu­ture af­ter Hilton In­ter­na­tion­al Trinidad Lim­it­ed warned it could stop op­er­at­ing the land­mark ho­tel on Sep­tem­ber 18 if a new agree­ment with State-owned Evolv­ing Tec­Knolo­gies and En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (eTeCK) is not fi­nalised.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment will rein­tro­duce a pro­gramme re­quir­ing con­vict­ed pris­on­ers sen­tenced to hard labour to par­tic­i­pate in pub­lic clean-up ex­er­cis­es as part of its crime pre­ven­tion strat­e­gy.