Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day says cit­i­zens are fac­ing fur­ther fi­nan­cial strain as the Gov­ern­ment weighs a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in do­mes­tic air­fares.

Gov­ern­ment’s push to mod­ernise mar­itime op­er­a­tions moved a step clos­er to full roll­out this week, as the Sail Clear sys­tem was placed un­der live test­ing at Ch­aguara­mas, pro­cess­ing in­com­ing cruis­ers in re­al time.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, ac­cus­ing him of fail­ing to act in the best in­ter­est of cit­i­zens fol­low­ing a pro­posed hike in do­mes­tic air­fares.

A 23-year-old man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with the mur­der of Tri­cia Mara­jh, which oc­curred on April 8, 2026.

Plans to merge do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al de­par­ture pro­cess­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port have been post­poned un­til fur­ther no­tice.

An emer­gency High Court in­junc­tion is now in ef­fect, stop­ping jet ski op­er­a­tions in the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park and the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic will pay from $960 to $1,000 to trav­el be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go via Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) un­der peak-pe­ri­od pric­ing, as Gov­ern­ment moves ahead with a pro­posed plan to in­tro­duce un­sub­sidised flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the jet ski ac­ci­dent that claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie in Pi­geon Point was no iso­lat­ed in­ci­dent and the stiffer penal­ties be­ing pro­posed for neg­li­gent op­er­a­tors will help to al­le­vi­ate some of the reck­less be­hav­iour that now pre­vails.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar has been named as the new head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS).

De­spite the Prime Min­is­ter’s sug­ges­tion that the head of the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice failed to ad­dress a cul­ture of cor­rup­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, the let­ter di­rect­ing As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Sur­ren­dra Sagram­s­ingh to pro­ceed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave makes no men­tion of mis­con­duct or li­a­bil­i­ty on his part.

At­tempts were made months ago to have the now-sus­pend­ed act­ing su­per­in­ten­dent in charge of the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion trans­ferred, but the move was nev­er ef­fect­ed.

Ques­tions are now be­ing raised about the man­age­ment of firearms at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, where Woman Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley was mur­dered on Sun­day, with emerg­ing con­cerns that in­com­plete se­r­i­al num­ber records of firearms in the precinct’s in­ven­to­ry could hin­der ef­forts to track the weapons stolen dur­ing the in­ci­dent.