Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that she will not hes­i­tate to de­clare an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE) if se­ri­ous threats to the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of cit­i­zens re-emerge.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed four men and re­cov­ered am­mu­ni­tion, cannabis and a stolen ve­hi­cle dur­ing op­er­a­tions across the North­ern, North Cen­tral and North Cen­tral West di­vi­sions be­tween Sep­tem­ber 17 and 19.

Three men were ar­rest­ed and a stolen ve­hi­cle re­cov­ered dur­ing sep­a­rate po­lice op­er­a­tions across the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

Steel Work­ers Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Bai­ley has con­demned what he de­scribes as per­son­al at­tacks against Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer, warn­ing that union lead­ers must be free to de­mand ac­count­abil­i­ty with­out in­tim­i­da­tion.

The Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Unit­ed Na­tions (FAO) is part­ner­ing with 4-H Trinidad and To­ba­go to pro­vide hy­dro­pon­ic sys­tems to 45 schools dur­ing the 2026/2027 aca­d­e­m­ic year at a cost of near­ly $500,000.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie came to the de­fence of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s le­gal cre­den­tials in Par­lia­ment ear­ly Sat­ur­day, ac­cus­ing Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young of cross­ing the line be­fore ques­tion­ing Young’s own el­e­va­tion to the rank of Se­nior Coun­sel.

A St James man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter he and oth­ers tried rob the Mar­aval branch of Burg­er King on Fri­day night.

The Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, 2026 has been passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives fol­low­ing a marathon sit­ting, with At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie say­ing the Gov­ern­ment is not promis­ing per­fec­tion from its lat­est crime-fight­ing mea­sure but will con­sid­er it a suc­cess if it de­liv­ers a steady and sus­tained re­duc­tion in vi­o­lent crime.

The Gov­ern­ment is de­fend­ing the ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­ers con­tained in the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, ar­gu­ing that the pub­lic’s in­ter­est in peace and or­der out­weighs any lim­it­ed in­fringe­ment of in­di­vid­ual rights and in­sist­ing the mea­sures are aimed sole­ly at what De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge de­scribed as the “ban­dit class.”

Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land has brand­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill a “sprawl­ing as­sault” on cit­i­zens’ con­sti­tu­tion­al rights, warn­ing that it could trans­form Trinidad and To­ba­go in­to a “po­lice state” and sub­ject peo­ple liv­ing in crime-af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ties to a less­er stan­dard of free­dom.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment will have to make do with the body cam­eras cur­rent­ly avail­able to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), as con­cerns grow over whether there are enough func­tion­ing de­vices and whether their use will be manda­to­ry dur­ing op­er­a­tions un­der the pro­posed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of us­ing the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill to sup­press con­sti­tu­tion­al rights, warn­ing that the leg­is­la­tion could turn Trinidad and To­ba­go in­to what he de­scribed as a “po­lice State.”