A 25-year-old Ja­maican na­tion­al has ap­peared be­fore the Crim­i­nal Court charged with the mur­der of a D'Abadie man whose body was found at his home last month.

A near­ly 10-year bat­tle for gay rights in Trinidad and To­ba­go could end on Wednes­day at a fi­nal ap­peals court in Eng­land.

The gov­ern­ment of Haiti has dis­patched a hu­man­i­tar­i­an med­ical mis­sion to Venezuela to as­sist vic­tims of the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes that struck the South Amer­i­can coun­try on June 24, de­spite the eco­nom­ic and se­cu­ri­ty chal­lenges fac­ing the French-speak­ing Caribbean na­tion.

Thou­sands of cus­tomers across North, Cen­tral and South Trinidad are ex­pect­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence in­ter­rup­tions to their pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply to­day as the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) car­ries out ur­gent main­te­nance at the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

A stu­dent of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas, has been se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go at the 2026 Na­tion­al Youth Sci­ence Camp (NYSCamp) in the Unit­ed States.

Long queues, man­u­al bal­lot count­ing and de­layed elec­tion re­sults could soon be­come a thing of the past for mem­ber-based or­gan­i­sa­tions with the in­tro­duc­tion of iV­ote Live, a dig­i­tal vot­ing plat­form de­vel­oped in Trinidad and To­ba­go to mod­ernise elec­tions and mem­ber par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s months-long chal­lenge to the process used to reap­point Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett will now be de­ter­mined by the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ), af­ter re­gion­al lead­ers yes­ter­day agreed to seek an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion from the re­gion­al court.

Pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan has wel­comed Cari­com's ap­proval of T&T's move to seek a Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) opin­ion on the reap­point­ment of Cari­com's Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al - and he's queried if an ex­pe­dit­ed hear­ing will be done.

Eleven-year-old Aaron Ed­wards, whose des­per­ate fight against a rare liv­er dis­ease cap­tured na­tion­al at­ten­tion last week, is now a step clos­er to re­ceiv­ing life­sav­ing treat­ment af­ter both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe in­ter­vened to se­cure as­sis­tance through the Chil­dren’s Life Fund.

For­mer Whim An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School stu­dent Faith Gra­ham may have been born vi­su­al­ly im­paired but she has re­fused to let that de­fine her.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says more pass­ports are on the way and in­sists there is enough stock to meet cur­rent de­mand, but the min­istry has not dis­closed how many pass­port book­lets re­main avail­able, even as con­cerns from peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the sit­u­a­tion about the coun­try’s sup­ply run­ning low con­tin­ue to per­sist.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to dis­close ex­act­ly how many pass­port book­lets re­main in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­ven­to­ry, say­ing the pub­lic still needs a clear pic­ture of the coun­try’s cur­rent sup­ply de­spite as­sur­ances from the min­istry that more pass­ports are on the way.