With flood­wa­ters fi­nal­ly re­ced­ing in sev­er­al parts of cen­tral Trinidad, lo­cal au­thor­i­ties have turned their fo­cus to clean-up ef­forts, dam­age as­sess­ments and long-term in­fra­struc­ture con­cerns.

With just over four months to go, prepa­ra­tions for the 2025 To­ba­go Car­ni­val are heat­ing up and or­gan­is­ers are hop­ing for a 30 per cent in­crease in par­tic­i­pa­tion com­pared to last year.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a man who was shot and thrown out of a ve­hi­cle in Ari­ma on Sun­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar marked Fa­ther’s Day with a call for shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in par­ent­ing and recog­ni­tion of the deep emo­tion­al role fa­thers play in shap­ing both fam­i­lies and the na­tion.

While many fa­thers bask in the love and af­fec­tion of their fam­i­lies to­day, An­drew Per­sad faces an un­bear­able task—say­ing good­bye to his mur­dered daugh­ter, 15-year-old Ma­li­ni Per­sad.

From the Gulf of Paria to Venezuela’s east­ern coast, a dan­ger­ous trade is flow­ing—one in­volv­ing high-pow­ered firearms and transna­tion­al crime that is lead­ing to po­lit­i­cal ten­sion.

Gov­ern­ment has spent more than $4.4 bil­lion in tax­pay­er dol­lars on the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) over the past decade. 

The dis­cov­ery of a woman’s body in an aban­doned lot of land in Carlsen Field has reignit­ed fears among res­i­dents and farm­ers that their com­mu­ni­ty is be­ing used as a dump­ing ground for mur­der­ers.

The bill to re­peal the TTRA was passed in the Low­er House just af­ter 1:15 am yes­ter­day with 27 votes in favour, in­clud­ing sup­port from To­ba­go East MP David Thomas.

The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion record­ed its high­est-ever com­pli­ance rate last year, with 78 per cent of peo­ple in pub­lic life sub­mit­ting their fi­nan­cial de­c­la­ra­tions—a sharp rise from 61 per cent the year be­fore.

El­der abuse is a silent scourge af­fect­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, says Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment Van­dana Mo­hit.

At Tues­day’s launch of the book Coral Reefs of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in Shaw Park, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine chal­lenged the na­tion to pro­tect its blue as­sets-not $100 bills but rather what lies be­neath the sur­face of the sea.