A 33-year-old Ari­ma man was in­ter­viewed by po­lice as he re­mained in cus­tody up to Wednes­day af­ter­noon, as en­quiries con­tin­ue in­to the mur­der of three-year-old Jereem George.

Po­lice will be await­ing DNA test­ing to de­ter­mine whose skele­tal re­mains were found in a forest­ed area of Dibe Road off Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James, on Tues­day.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Paul Richards has strong­ly con­demned re­ports that some teach­ers may be de­lib­er­ate­ly with­hold­ing lessons dur­ing school hours to push stu­dents in­to paid af­ter­noon class­es. The is­sue, raised by the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of Par­ent-Teacher As­so­ci­a­tions (NPTA), was dis­cussed dur­ing a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) en­quiry in­to un­der­per­for­mance in schools and the ad­e­qua­cy of stu­dent sup­port ser­vices.

An­oth­er prison of­fi­cer was tar­get­ed in a vi­o­lent at­tack when his ve­hi­cle was fire­bombed ear­li­er this week at an undis­closed lo­ca­tion. This was the fourth at­tack on a prison of­fi­cer in just over a week. Last week, the homes of three of­fi­cers were shot at.

Three men have been freed of mur­der­ing a 22-year-old Diego Mar­tin res­i­dent over two decades ago, with one of them crit­i­cis­ing the DPP’s of­fice for not dis­con­tin­u­ing the case. 

A so­cial me­dia ac­tivist has made good on his threat to sue over reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) re­lat­ed to pub­lic or­der. 

Po­lice be­lieve one of the bod­ies seen aboard a mys­tery boat off the east coast of Trinidad may have washed ashore in Man­zanil­la.

One man was killed and an­oth­er in­jured af­ter they were am­bushed in a camp in Es­per­an­za Vil­lage, Cou­va, on Tues­day night.

The up­com­ing Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) elec­tion, sched­uled for March 10, 2025, has been de­scribed as a crit­i­cal junc­ture for pub­lic of­fi­cers in Trinidad and To­ba­go. 

Con­trac­tor and so­cial me­dia in­flu­encer Shane Ma­habirs­ingh has lost his defama­tion law­suit against an at­tor­ney, who he blamed for his le­gal de­feat in a law­suit with a for­mer cus­tomer.

When for­mer min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte vis­it­ed the Mor­vant/ Laven­tille Sec­ondary School in Sep­tem­ber last year, he said he saw more than just class­rooms.

Three more men are now de­tained un­der the state of emer­gency or­ders af­ter Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds is­sued de­ten­tion or­ders yes­ter­day.