The Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant has re­sumed op­er­a­tions ear­li­er than ex­pect­ed af­ter its an­nu­al main­te­nance shut­down.

The gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to can­cel this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade and fire­works has been de­scribed by his­to­ri­an Dr Claudius Fer­gus as a ma­jor loss for the na­tion.

For­mer Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go Aché Abra­hams has spo­ken out about her painful ex­pe­ri­ence in the pageant world, say­ing it left her emo­tion­al­ly, men­tal­ly and fi­nan­cial­ly drained.

The in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed Alvin Ai­ley II dance com­pa­ny will per­form at Queen’s Hall on Tues­day, Au­gust 26, with two shows pre­sent­ed by Plié for the Arts in part­ner­ship with the Na­tion­al Dance As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Sun­beam Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

Nine­ty-five Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers are re­ceiv­ing spe­cialised train­ing for de­ploy­ment to high-risk schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go when the new school term be­gins.

A Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble (WPC) is due to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion to­day, af­ter she was charged with three counts of lar­ce­ny by trick.

The Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard SC has or­dered that an in­quest be held in­to the death of Kern Patrick, which oc­curred on Thurs­day 12 June 2025, at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex.

A 27-year-old man from Gas­par­il­lo was shot and ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved in­ci­dent in Clax­ton Bay on Wednes­day.

Po­lice have ar­rest­ed an act­ing Su­per­in­ten­dent of Pris­ons un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne says while peo­ple may in­ter­pret the can­cel­la­tion of this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade in their own way, the City Cor­po­ra­tion’s pri­or­i­ty is en­sur­ing chil­dren are not de­prived of the chance to cel­e­brate the na­tion’s 63rd an­niver­sary of in­de­pen­dence.

Res­i­dents of Ce­dros are ex­press­ing mixed feel­ings about re­ports that three Unit­ed States war­ships will soon be op­er­at­ing off T&T’s shores as ten­sions rise be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.

As this coun­try’s Gov­ern­ment re­mains silent on the im­pend­ing Unit­ed States (US) naval pres­ence in the wa­ters off the coast of Venezuela, the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment is pledg­ing a peace­ful ap­proach to this de­vel­op­ing sit­u­a­tion.