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.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States are ex­plor­ing clos­er col­lab­o­ra­tion in sports diplo­ma­cy, youth de­vel­op­ment and sport tourism fol­low­ing a meet­ing be­tween Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts and Unit­ed States Chargé d’Af­faires Philip Kern.

Six peo­ple, in­clud­ing two teenage boys, were ar­rest­ed and a home­made shot­gun with am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing sep­a­rate an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in Cen­tral and North Cen­tral Trinidad.

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

A 17-year-old Clax­ton Bay ju­ve­nile has been charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences re­port­ed on Tues­day.

The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries (MEEI) has held dis­cus­sions with bp Trinidad and To­ba­go (bpTT) and the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) on the de­vel­op­ment of the Man­akin/Cocuina cross-bor­der nat­ur­al gas project.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) elec­tions of­fi­cer In­dar Paras­ram has de­nied al­le­ga­tions of ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties in the on­go­ing San Fer­nan­do East par­ty group (PG) elec­tions, in­sist­ing that the process has been pro­ceed­ing smooth­ly, with on­ly one mi­nor is­sue re­port­ed.