Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says that “an ar­rest is im­mi­nent”, as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to sev­er­al bomb threats across Trinidad ear­li­er this week.

Gravedig­gers placed the first four vic­tims in cin­derblock plots while a small group of lo­cals watched at a ceme­tery on the tip of North Africa.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) says the out­look for Guyana is still high­ly un­cer­tain, giv­en per­sis­tent geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions that con­tin­ue to push up in­ter­na­tion­al oil prices.

The for­mal no­tice of re­vo­ca­tion by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der of the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) against Do­minic Hadeed and Genevieve Hadeed has been pub­lished in the of­fi­cial Gazette.

Vet­er­an trade union­ist Ce­cil Paul, a for­mer First Vice Pres­i­dent of the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU), died on Tues­day fol­low­ing a short ill­ness.

The U.S. gov­ern­ment has de­clared a drought dis­as­ter in the U.S. Vir­gin Is­lands as dry con­di­tions per­sist.

A planned protest by the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) out­side TSTT House in Port of Spain was can­celled at the last minute on Fri­day morn­ing af­ter po­lice con­tact­ed the union to with­draw per­mis­sion for the demon­stra­tion.

Par­ents of pupils at the San Fer­nan­do Sev­enth-day Ad­ven­tist Pri­ma­ry School are call­ing for the Board and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to in­di­cate what will hap­pen to their stu­dents when they go back to school in the new term, as pro­posed school re­pairs have not even start­ed.

Pan on D’Av­enue XII has been can­celled, with or­gan­is­ers say­ing they could not se­cure enough fund­ing and in­fra­struc­ture to stage the an­nu­al Steel­pan cel­e­bra­tion along Ari­api­ta Av­enue.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is link­ing high lev­els of ex­am­i­na­tion ab­sen­teeism among CSEC and CAPE stu­dents to broad­er so­cio-emo­tion­al chal­lenges, warn­ing that the cri­sis is be­ing com­pound­ed by a crip­pled Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion (SSSD).

A male pas­sen­ger ar­riv­ing at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port from New York has been charged af­ter Cus­toms of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion in his pos­ses­sion.

A 25-year-old St Anns welder is the coun­try’s lat­est mur­der vic­tim as he was gunned down by men wear­ing po­lice caps and tac­ti­cal gear on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.