Thou­sands of peo­ple af­fect­ed by the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes in Venezuela last month are in­creas­ing­ly fac­ing chal­lenges ac­cess­ing clean wa­ter as well as san­i­ta­tion and hy­giene ser­vices.

The Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ES­CTT) is con­demn­ing the po­lice's han­dling of a con­fronta­tion with mem­bers of Sil­ver Stars Steel Or­ches­tra at TRIBE's band launch, say­ing the re­port­ed use of force against pan­nists was dis­pro­por­tion­ate.

Sil­ver Stars Steel Or­ches­tra has de­fend­ed the ac­tions of its mem­bers fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with po­lice dur­ing the TRIBE Launch Cup 2026 event, in­sist­ing its play­ers were vic­tims of an un­nec­es­sary use of force stem­ming from what it be­lieves was a mis­un­der­stand­ing over event per­mit re­stric­tions.

ANSA McAL has do­nat­ed two pieces of heavy equip­ment worth TT$846,574 to sup­port on­go­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an and re­cov­ery ef­forts in Venezuela.

Sci­en­tists ex­plor­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deep wa­ters have col­lect­ed what could be the first known spec­i­men of an un­known deep-sea oc­to­pus, a dis­cov­ery that may rep­re­sent a species new to sci­ence.

A 34-year-old Waller­field se­cu­ri­ty guard has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of a 33-year-old Ari­ma man who was fa­tal­ly stabbed dur­ing an in­ci­dent at a bar last month.

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.