Two men ap­peared be­fore a To­ba­go Mag­is­trate on Fri­day charged with traf­fick­ing more than $1 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning have re­ject­ed sug­ges­tions of a rift with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), as the par­ty works through a pub­lic dis­agree­ment over the in­ter­nal process in Man­ning’s con­stituen­cy.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal clashed in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day over Young's query about whether Can­dy Ro­get-Mar­tinez, who was hired at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Ltd, had OW­TU Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get as a ref­er­ence for her ap­pli­ca­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says he is await­ing word from the Prime Min­is­ter and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to de­ter­mine when Gov­ern­ment’s con­tro­ver­sial Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion will re­turn to Par­lia­ment, as he in­sists the pro­posed law is about trans­form­ing com­mu­ni­ties and not sim­ply send­ing po­lice of­fi­cers in­to crime hotspots.

As Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin as­sures the pub­lic that in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to for­mer State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­tainees will con­tin­ue, for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says stronger col­lab­o­ra­tion among in­tel­li­gence agen­cies is need­ed to se­cure con­vic­tions and im­prove pub­lic safe­ty.

A three-year-old boy was in­jured af­ter a steel gate fell on him at his Princes Town home last Thurs­day.

Calls are be­ing made for the State to apol­o­gise to hun­dreds of peo­ple de­tained in prison fa­cil­i­ties un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders, as the present State of Emer­gency is sched­uled to come to an end next week.

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has con­firmed that the Unit­ed States made re­quests for its mil­i­tary to op­er­ate with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space and mar­itime zones last year, but is re­fus­ing to dis­close what Wash­ing­ton re­quest­ed, when the re­quests were made or how they were han­dled.

Pub­lic bod­ies re­port­ed $16 bil­lion in pro­cure­ment awards dur­ing fis­cal year 2024/2025, up from $13.7 bil­lion the year be­fore. But the pro­cure­ment sys­tem con­tin­ued to be marked by poor re­port­ing qual­i­ty, lim­it­ed com­pe­ti­tion and sig­nif­i­cant project ex­e­cu­tion chal­lenges, in­clud­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3 bil­lion in un­ful­filled con­tracts, as out­lined in the ex­ec­u­tive sum­ma­ry of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion’s (OPR) 2026 fi­nal an­nu­al re­port, Vol­ume One.

The busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of beloved in­dus­try gi­ant Churchill Azad Akaloo, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Sheik Lisha Ltd, who passed away on Fri­day night.

A new study has found that 97 per cent of the de­bris record­ed on To­ba­go’s At­lantic-fac­ing beach­es was plas­tic, but the garbage is not com­ing from where you think it is.

Two teenagers have been ar­rest­ed and stolen prop­er­ty re­cov­ered fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a home in­va­sion in San­gre Grande.