A 24-year-old Good­wood man has been charged with the mur­der of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, near­ly two weeks af­ter the tod­dler’s dis­ap­pear­ance trig­gered an is­land-wide search op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go.

Just one day af­ter Joshua Sama­roo’s fa­ther, Christo­pher Sama­roo, told Guardian Me­dia that he was shell-shocked and in dis­be­lief that his daugh­ter-in-law, Ka­ia Sealy, had been ac­cused of killing his son, he has now made a stun­ning re­ver­sal.

In coffins which stood side by side, fa­ther and son Aqiyl and Aki­ni Kafi were laid to rest at the Crown Street, Pub­lic Ceme­tery yes­ter­day af­ter a fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Cor­pus Christi RC Church, East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

The Op­po­si­tion is set to dis­cuss its strat­e­gy for the next Par­lia­ment ses­sion af­ter walk­ing out dur­ing the de­bate on Fri­day evening.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has hired nine out of a pro­posed batch of 12 so­cial me­dia in­flu­encers, with month­ly salaries to­talling $85,398.92.

A co­or­di­nat­ed mul­ti-agency an­ti-il­lic­it trade ex­er­cise, dubbed Op­er­a­tion DUN­WICH, re­sult­ed in the seizure of over 3,000 il­lic­it and un­cer­ti­fied items dur­ing in­spec­tions con­duct­ed across the South­ern and South West­ern Di­vi­sions on Fri­day, May 22.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has re­ject­ed what Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Ret’d Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al de­scribed as the Gov­ern­ment’s “best and fi­nal of­fer” to set­tle out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor ar­rears and is in­stead propos­ing more cash pay­ments and full cash set­tle­ments for re­tirees.

For the first time since the 2023 launch of the e-ap­point­ment plat­form, man­aged by the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion un­der the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, cit­i­zens are now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­prece­dent­ed de­lays in se­cur­ing pass­port ap­point­ments.

Next week, the San Juan Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SJL­RC) may find it­self with­out a roof over its head, as the cor­po­ra­tion has been giv­en no­tice to va­cate the ground floor of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) Plaza in Aranguez, which it has been rent­ing as its of­fice for decades.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed 709 peo­ple for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of­fences in 2025, mark­ing the high­est num­ber of DUI-re­lat­ed ar­rests record­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go since 2019.

While her fam­i­ly was forced to ad­just to her ab­sence, the en­su­ing years have not dulled the pain and loss as they con­tin­ue to ques­tion what re­al­ly hap­pened to her.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela have agreed to con­tin­ue shar­ing in­for­ma­tion and strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion on the man­age­ment of po­ten­tial cross-bor­der hy­dro­car­bon spills fol­low­ing a bi­lat­er­al meet­ing held on May 22.