While the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) in Trinidad is in tran­si­tion while be­ing re­struc­tured, To­ba­go's URP con­tin­ues on the job with projects - the lat­est be­ing a "facelift" for the area lead­ing to Pi­geon Point Beach in time for Sat­ur­day's an­nu­al Great Race event.

A taxi dri­ver was shot dur­ing a hold-up in Pe­nal on Wednes­day morn­ing, but quick ac­tion by se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers led to the ar­rest of two Venezue­lan na­tion­als min­utes lat­er.

U.K. Prime Min­is­ter Keir Starmer wel­comed Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy to Lon­don on Thurs­day in a show of British sup­port for Ukraine a day be­fore a crit­i­cal U.S.-Rus­sia sum­mit is set to take place in Alas­ka.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of col­lectible trad­ing cards and oth­er items from a parked car in down­town Port of Spain on Tues­day morn­ing.

A marked pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty ve­hi­cle was stolen at gun­point in east Port of Spain ear­ly on Thurs­day.

The Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment Wednes­day said it has tak­en steps to im­pose visa re­stric­tions on Grena­di­an gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, and their fam­i­ly mem­bers, for their com­plic­i­ty in the Cuban regime’s med­ical mis­sion scheme.

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy a body that was found float­ing in a riv­er in Va­len­cia on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

ANSA Coat­ings Lim­it­ed (ACL) sup­port­ed 108 stu­dents from La Hor­quet­ta South Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on Tues­day, dur­ing its sec­ond an­nu­al Back-to-School Dri­ve, more than dou­ble the 51 stu­dents it helped last year.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­vealed that she has a pan­ic but­ton in­stalled in her pri­vate home in Philip­pine, San Fer­nan­do, and is en­cour­ag­ing oth­er home­own­ers to con­sid­er do­ing the same to pro­tect them­selves from the crim­i­nal el­e­ment.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised ques­tions about the de­ci­sion to send the Reg­i­ment’s com­mand­ing of­fi­cer on va­ca­tion be­fore quick­ly re­call­ing him, short­ages of sup­plies at Staubles Bay, and the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of se­cu­ri­ty dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath says he is un­fazed af­ter re­ceiv­ing threats over the can­cel­la­tions of Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts.

The Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to pos­si­bly sue nine for­mer board mem­bers over their de­ci­sion to rat­i­fy the three-year ex­ten­sion of over 300 con­trac­tors days be­fore the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.