The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has an­nounced that sev­en stu­dents from Trinidad and To­ba­go have been rec­og­nized among the top re­gion­al awardees for the 2024 Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tion (CAPE) and Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, as an­nounced yes­ter­day by the Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC).

Coun­tries in the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca con­tin­ue to face chal­lenges on mul­ti­ple fronts as they seek to main­tain healthy and sus­tain­able live­stock in­dus­tries and en­sure food se­cu­ri­ty for their re­spec­tive pop­u­la­tions.

A re­newed call for crim­i­nals to put down the guns, this time from the pres­i­dent of the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent (Ag) Gideon Dick­son, fol­low­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kr­ish­na Ba­na­har.

Don­ald Trump's vic­to­ry at the polls could bring sig­nif­i­cant changes to Trinidad and To­ba­go's en­er­gy sec­tor, warns for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty’s Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) has joined forces with glob­al law en­force­ment agen­cies to ad­dress the is­sue of hu­man traf­fick­ing and mi­grant smug­gling, as part of In­ter­pol’s his­toric Op­er­a­tion Lib­ert­er­ra II.

Wel­come to Be­y­on­cé coun­try. When it comes to the 2025 Gram­my Award nom­i­na­tions, “Cow­boy Carter” rules the na­tion. She leads the nods with 11, bring­ing her ca­reer to­tal to 99 nom­i­na­tions. That makes her the most nom­i­nat­ed artist in Gram­my his­to­ry.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries (MALF) has con­cerned it is work­ing ag­gres­sive­ly to en­sure this coun­try’s pork in­dus­try is not dev­as­tat­ed by African Swine Fever (ASF), which is a se­ries threat to food se­cu­ri­ty.

Twelve peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed, three firearms and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics, in­clud­ing TT$19.2 mil­lion in co­caine, were seized dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across the coun­try.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has ex­tend­ed the Work Per­mit Ex­emp­tion grant­ed to Venezue­lan Na­tion­als in Trinidad and To­ba­go un­til De­cem­ber 31, 2025. 

Brazil­ian au­thor­i­ties in the state of Pará and law en­force­ment agen­cies seized 16 AK-47 ri­fles that were trans­port­ed on a ship that had de­part­ed from Suri­name.

Bar­rack­pore West Sec­ondary School is the cham­pi­on of this year’s Dr Roodal Mooni­lal In­ter-Sec­ondary Schools’ De­bate Com­pe­ti­tion.

Em­bat­tled Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass has been giv­en the green light to con­tin­ue her law­suit over a Cab­i­net-ap­point­ed probe in­to the han­dling of a mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of rev­enue in the na­tion­al ac­counts.