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.”

Two In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors have ac­knowl­edged im­prove­ments in the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill com­pared with the de­feat­ed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion, but say con­cerns re­main over sev­er­al key pro­vi­sions.

Cas­tries, Saint Lu­cia – Chil­dren across parts of the East­ern Caribbean may soon have nowhere to es­cape the ef­fects of over­lap­ping cli­mate threats, ac­cord­ing to new re­search warn­ing that more than nine in 10 of them could be ex­posed to at least three ma­jor cli­mate haz­ards by mid-cen­tu­ry.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill against crit­i­cism that its ap­proach to crime lacks so­cial in­ter­ven­tions, point­ing to a range of com­mu­ni­ty and youth pro­grammes he said would ac­com­pa­ny po­lice op­er­a­tions in des­ig­nat­ed ar­eas.

The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to amend the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, 2026 to ex­plic­it­ly pro­tect jour­nal­ists’ con­fi­den­tial sources and equip­ment from po­lice seizure dur­ing spe­cial op­er­a­tions.

Even with the pro­posed in­clu­sion of a manda­to­ry body-cam­era pol­i­cy for po­lice of­fi­cers and sol­diers as part of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, res­i­dents of Diego Mar­tin say they re­main wary of the strat­e­gy, cit­ing past in­ci­dents of “ag­gres­sive” and “heavy-hand­ed” po­lice tac­tics dur­ing crime-fight­ing op­er­a­tions.

One of the first things you need to know about the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill 2026 is how your life could be af­fect­ed if your area is des­ig­nat­ed a “closed area”.

To­ba­go hote­liers and busi­ness own­ers fear that in­clud­ing the is­land in the pro­posed spe­cial op­er­a­tions dis­tricts could deal a se­vere blow to tourism.

A 48-year-old Va­len­cia man has been sen­tenced to 18 years in prison for re­peat­ed­ly bug­ger­ing a 15-year-old boy whom he took in af­ter the teenag­er ran away from home more than a decade ago.

The Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (NALIS) has agreed to re­in­state a work­er af­ter be­ing threat­ened with con­tempt of court pro­ceed­ings by the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA).

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Fri­day that he was ban­ning CNN, MSNOW and Politi­co from the White House due to what he called un­fa­vor­able cov­er­age, and threat­ened that more such me­dia pro­hi­bi­tions could be com­ing — of­fer­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s lat­est test of con­sti­tu­tion­al First Amend­ment pro­tec­tions guar­an­tee­ing the free­dom of the press.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing af­ter sev­en hu­man ca­dav­ers were dis­cov­ered be­ing stored in a re­frig­er­a­tion unit at a com­pound in Cen­tral Trinidad on Thurs­day.