Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day re­mained silent on the killing of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton and his fa­ther Joseph Sut­ton, even as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) con­tin­ues.

Some trade unions have en­dorsed the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers’ (NUGFW) agree­ment with the State for a 10 per cent wage in­crease, 60 per cent of which will be paid in non-cash ben­e­fits.

The Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­ba­tion sys­tem by in­tro­duc­ing “split sen­tenc­ing,” a mea­sure that com­bines jail time with su­per­vised re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, in a bid to re­duce re­peat of­fend­ing and ease prison over­crowd­ing.

Po­lice have re­cov­ered a tele­vi­sion be­long­ing to a col­league that was stolen dur­ing a re­cent bur­glary at Cy­press Hills, San Fer­nan­do. The item was found in an aban­doned apart­ment in the com­mu­ni­ty on Mon­day.

The Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (CBC) be­gan the re­moval and re­lo­ca­tion of ven­dors from the Ch­agua­nas Ven­dors Mall along the Ch­agua­nas Main Road yes­ter­day, cit­ing years of il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ty and mis­use of the fa­cil­i­ty.

A man ac­cused of sex­u­al of­fences against a mi­nor has lost his ap­peal against a High Court Mas­ter’s re­fusal to dis­charge him af­ter pros­e­cu­tors missed dead­lines for fil­ing ev­i­dence.

Days af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) urged the Gov­ern­ment to in­tro­duce cam­paign fi­nance re­form, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has added his voice, cit­ing new al­le­ga­tions that San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra fi­nanced the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’s (UNC) 2025 cam­paign in the con­stituen­cy.

Sus­pects in the mur­ders of Ce­dros crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit and fa­ther of two Ra­jku­mar Pope are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day.

The To­ba­go Di­vi­sion of the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has voiced strong op­po­si­tion to any move to re­move the sub­sidy for the Caribbean Air­lines air­bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment has re­vealed that a to­tal of $16.1 mil­lion was spent to es­tab­lish and op­er­ate the Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive dur­ing Car­ni­val 2026.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford has called on par­ty leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les to safe­guard the par­ty ahead of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions by re­mov­ing Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj.

The Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment has re­vealed that the to­tal cost to es­tab­lish and op­er­ate the Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive dur­ing the Car­ni­val 2026 pe­ri­od amount­ed to $16,164,663.75.