A 27-year-old man was shot and killed near his home on George Street, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day night, less than a week af­ter his re­lease from de­ten­tion un­der the State of Emer­gency.

De­spite the chal­lenges she faced, 13-year-old Mari­ah Seenath was de­ter­mined to achieve her goals, and those who knew her be­lieved she was des­tined for suc­cess.

Pan Trin­ba­go is seek­ing clar­i­ty from the Gov­ern­ment on how the pro­posed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, 2026 could af­fect steel­bands, pa­n­yards, re­hearsals and oth­er ac­tiv­i­ties as­so­ci­at­ed with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al mu­si­cal in­stru­ment.

The Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing changes to the pub­lic pro­cure­ment law that would lim­it the pow­ers of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR), cre­ate ex­emp­tions from ex­ist­ing pro­cure­ment re­quire­ments and in­crease the val­ue of con­tracts some pub­lic bod­ies can ap­prove.