Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has called for sus­tained in­no­va­tion in the pub­lic ser­vice while em­pha­sis­ing the im­por­tance of ad­her­ing to es­tab­lished rules and con­ven­tions, as she ad­dressed the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) PrAISE Awards for In­no­va­tion in Ser­vice Ex­cel­lence 2025 on Tues­day.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go edges clos­er to adopt­ing stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion, de­bate is in­ten­si­fy­ing over how the law will be en­forced and whether race, polic­ing cul­ture, and ac­cess to firearms will shape its im­pact.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 26-year-old man from Rock­ley Vale, Scar­bor­ough, in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of an Amer­i­can tourist in Cas­tara on Wednes­day night, bring­ing To­ba­go’s mur­der toll to eight for the year.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is now re­ly­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter for the ex­pla­na­tion be­hind this week’s unan­nounced US mil­i­tary land­ing in To­ba­go—a day af­ter say­ing he knew noth­ing about it.