A Bar­rack­pore fam­i­ly was beat­en and valu­ables worth more than $120,000 stolen dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Sun­day night. 

A 36-year-old labour­er has been ar­rest­ed af­ter al­leged­ly lock­ing the moth­er of his child in­side his house and at­tempt­ing to set it on fire.

Ear­ly vot­ers in San Juan/Barataria say they faced lengthy wait times be­fore cast­ing their bal­lots on Mon­day morn­ing, ei­ther be­cause of long lines or an un­usu­al­ly longer vot­er process at some polling sta­tions

A 42-year-old man re­mained in po­lice cus­tody to­day af­ter slit­ting his moth­er’s throat dur­ing an ar­gu­ment.

In an in­ter­view ear­li­er to­day, THA Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine pro­vid­ed an up­date on his ex­pe­ri­ence at the polling sta­tion and the over­all progress of the elec­tion.

Gary Grif­fith, Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), dis­cussed the on­go­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, not­ing that it has been a clean elec­tion thus far. He com­mend­ed the ef­forts of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC), and the CARI­COM and Com­mon­wealth ob­servers. "This is ex­act­ly what this coun­try need­ed at this time," he said, high­light­ing the im­por­tance of en­sur­ing trans­paren­cy and le­git­i­ma­cy in the elec­toral process. He fur­ther stat­ed that any doubts re­gard­ing the le­git­i­ma­cy of the elec­tion could lead to in­sta­bil­i­ty and af­fect the coun­try’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.

Sev­er­al peo­ple blocked a sec­tion of Mid­dle Street out­side the George­town Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal (GPH) mor­tu­ary on Mon­day as three for­eign foren­sic pathol­o­gists were con­duct­ing an au­top­sy on 11-year-old Adri­an­na Young, whose body was found in a ho­tel pool at Tuschen, East Bank Es­se­qui­bo last Thurs­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to­day cast his vote in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion and de­scribed the process as smooth and or­der­ly.

A black­out brought much of Spain and Por­tu­gal to a stand­still Mon­day, stop­ping trains, cut­ting phone ser­vice and shut­ting down traf­fic lights and ATMs for mil­lions of peo­ple across the Iber­ian Penin­su­la.

With vot­ing ful­ly un­der­way, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has raised con­cerns about de­lays, vot­er bribery, and gaps in the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) reg­u­la­tions.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader, Mick­ela Pan­day, and her moth­er, Oma Pan­day, shared an emo­tion­al mo­ment at the Es­per­ance Com­mu­ni­ty Com­plex af­ter cast­ing their bal­lots this morn­ing.

The Trinidad-based Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Im­ple­men­ta­tion Agency for Crime and Se­cu­ri­ty (IM­PACS) says it has of­fi­cial­ly be­gun the process of de­vel­op­ing a new CARI­COM Se­cu­ri­ty Strat­e­gy (CSS).