For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter and sen­a­tor Hazel Man­ning is set to of­fer her­self for the chair­man­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East (SFE) con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive when elec­tions are held next month.

While con­cerned about the spate and un­pre­dictable na­ture of vi­o­lent crime, Ari­ma ven­dors say they will con­tin­ue their dai­ly rou­tines, al­beit with greater cau­tion, af­ter two men were gunned down in the bor­ough’s com­mer­cial cen­tre ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Years af­ter sur­viv­ing sep­a­rate vi­o­lent at­tacks, Trini­bad artistes K-Man and Plumpy Boss met face-to-face on Sat­ur­day, in a bid to pro­mote peace and pos­i­tiv­i­ty among com­mu­ni­ties in east Port-of-Spain and Laven­tille.

In a move that com­bines high-stakes pol­i­tics and com­mu­ni­ty se­cu­ri­ty, the new wave of po­lice posts is be­ing strate­gi­cal­ly placed in Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ar­eas.

The fu­ner­al of teenage dancer Jed­da Be­har­ry has been post­poned af­ter an au­top­sy failed to de­ter­mine the cause of her death.

One per­son has been ar­rest­ed and a sub­stan­tial quan­ti­ty of cop­per wire and ca­bles sus­pect­ed to be the prop­er­ty of the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) re­cov­ered dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led po­lice op­er­a­tion in El So­cor­ro, San Juan.

Po­lice said Kei­th Ben­jamin Spencer, 47, and Ju­nior Castil­lo, whose alias is ‘Roti’, were lim­ing at a bar near the cor­ner of Queen and Far­fan Streets at around 2.43 am when a car drove near them.

A new­born ba­by girl, who was found aban­doned in a card­board box in South Oropouche with her um­bil­i­cal cord still at­tached, re­mained un­der ob­ser­va­tion in hos­pi­tal last night and was re­port­ed to be in good health.

The Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty record­ed 2,700 re­ports child abuse and mal­treat­ment in the first half of this year, com­pared with the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

Two mem­bers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive re­signed yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the re­lease of a state­ment on Thurs­day, in the ex­ec­u­tive’s name, crit­i­cis­ing San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have ques­tioned the lead­er­ship of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son, amid the par­ty’s on­go­ing is­sues in the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy be­tween MP Bri­an Man­ning and the Pa­tri­cia Alex­is-led ex­ec­u­tive.

While po­lit­i­cal ten­sions con­tin­ue to play out be­tween the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive and MP Bri­an Man­ning, res­i­dents say their pri­ma­ry con­cern is not the in­fight­ing but the is­sues af­fect­ing their dai­ly lives.