The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) South Cen­tral Zone is ap­peal­ing for sup­port to ex­pand its Ca­lyp­so Work­shop for young peo­ple, in an at­tempt to pre­serve one of the old­est cul­tur­al art forms in the coun­try.

At just 18, Vic­to­ria Aman­da De­onar­ine has al­ready gone deep­er than most ever will—both in wa­ter and in am­bi­tion.

The an­nounce­ment that the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be ex­tend­ed in­to 2026 has been well re­ceived by at least one se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert, who is now ap­peal­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to use the time to iden­ti­fy its goals for the next six months, while a sec­ond has as­cribed the SoE a “pass­ing grade.”

Act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Andy Hutchin­son says he is hop­ing Gov­ern­ment will ad­dress the re­source and equip­ment needs of the T&T Fire Ser­vice, as it is con­tin­u­ing to af­fect the morale of his fire­fight­ers.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has an­nounced that gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for sec­ondary school stu­dents will be dis­trib­uted by the end of No­vem­ber.

Po­lice of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing the search for a known sus­pect who aban­doned a car con­tain­ing over $11 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na in Trinci­ty on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an armed rob­bery at a fast food out­let in Freeport on Sat­ur­day night.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Christo­pher Tufton says a field hos­pi­tal is sched­uled to ar­rive with­in the next 24 hours for de­ploy­ment to the town of Black Riv­er in the south­ern parish of St. Eliz­a­beth.

The U.S. mil­i­tary has car­ried out an­oth­er lethal strike on al­leged drug smug­glers in the Caribbean Sea, De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth an­nounced Sat­ur­day.

The De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (CAF) has ap­proved US$670,000 in emer­gency grant fund­ing for Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

The fam­i­ly of 26-year-old fish­er­man Chad Joseph, who is be­lieved to have been killed in a US airstrike, has filed a miss­ing per­son re­port with the Mara­cas Bay Po­lice.

British po­lice dis­missed spec­u­la­tion on Sun­day that a mass stab­bing at­tack on a Lon­don-bound train the pre­vi­ous evening was ter­ror­ism-re­lat­ed but said two peo­ple who were wound­ed re­main in life-threat­en­ing con­di­tion.