In Plum Mi­tan, the once-promis­ing Marp­er Farm, known for its prop­a­ga­tion ini­tia­tives, is fac­ing a de­cline.

Through­out the his­to­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go, sev­er­al trade union­ists have risen to en­joy the ben­e­fits of po­lit­i­cal pow­er—hold­ing some of the coun­try’s high­est of­fices, in­clud­ing Prime Min­is­ter—while work­ers ac­cused them of bro­ken promis­es and what some called a di­vid­ed trade union move­ment.

Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers are still wait­ing on prize mon­ey from the 2026 cel­e­bra­tions, even af­ter the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion says it has paid $4.55 mil­lion to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­BA); and now a Gov­ern­ment com­mit­ment to ad­dress the out­stand­ing pay­ments by the mid­dle of Sep­tem­ber is ap­proach­ing.

Days af­ter ex­plo­sive al­le­ga­tions of gang­ster­ism, in­tim­i­da­tion and ex­tor­tion sur­faced with­in the NCRHA’s Pa­tient Es­cort and Hos­pi­tal At­ten­dant Ser­vices, chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh says the once “ter­ri­ble” sit­u­a­tion is im­prov­ing and the au­thor­i­ty is get­ting bet­ter re­sults from work­ers.

A To­ba­go woman was al­leged­ly shot by her boyfriend dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Fri­day af­ter­noon in Bon Ac­cord.

An ear­ly morn­ing con­fronta­tion in Mal­abar end­ed in tragedy yes­ter­day when a 26-year-old car sales­man was stabbed mul­ti­ple times and died short­ly af­ter reach­ing the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal.

A 33-year-old Trinida­di­an na­tion­al and law­ful per­ma­nent res­i­dent of the Unit­ed States has plead­ed guilty to sex traf­fick­ing and ad­mit­ted that he kid­napped six ad­di­tion­al women.

A To­ba­go woman was al­leged­ly shot by her boyfriend dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Fri­day af­ter­noon in Bon Ac­cord.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed one man and seized a firearm, a mag­a­zine and sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cis­es in the Cen­tral, South­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions over the past 24 hours.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider Flow is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers in Bel­mont and sur­round­ing ar­eas of a ser­vice in­ter­rup­tion fol­low­ing a fire on Pic­cadil­ly Street last night.

A 36-year-old Fyz­abad man was ar­rest­ed and two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and co­caine seized dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the Pe­nal and Fyz­abad dis­tricts.

Hilton Trinidad work­ers have been giv­en a six-month re­prieve af­ter the Gov­ern­ment se­cured a new man­age­ment agree­ment that will keep the in­ter­na­tion­al ho­tel brand at the State-owned prop­er­ty while a longer-term so­lu­tion is de­vel­oped.