Rel­a­tives of 14-year-old Ka­reema Joseph are pray­ing for her safe re­turn af­ter she was last seen over the week­end.

An ar­gu­ment over a dog spilling cof­fee beans left one man in hos­pi­tal nurs­ing chop wounds while an­oth­er was ar­rest­ed.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has as­sured par­ents, guardians, and the pub­lic that schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ue to op­er­ate in a safe and se­cure man­ner, with learn­ing ac­tiv­i­ties on­go­ing in all ed­u­ca­tion dis­tricts.

Sev­en men were ar­rest­ed and two stolen ve­hi­cles re­cov­ered dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in the Four Roads dis­trict on Mon­day night.

An­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in the North­ern and West­ern Di­vi­sions yes­ter­day re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of three per­sons and the seizure of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and cannabis.

A 41-one-year-old man of Bar­rack­pore has been charged with manslaugh­ter in re­la­tion to the death of 63-year-old Ramesh Lall­be­har­ry.

The An­gli­can Bish­op of Bar­ba­dos, the Right Rev­erend Michael Maxwell, is call­ing on can­di­dates con­test­ing the Feb­ru­ary 11 gen­er­al elec­tion to con­duct their cam­paigns in a man­ner that “ho­n­ours God and re­spects the dig­ni­ty of every cit­i­zen, in­clud­ing those of the op­pos­ing po­lit­i­cal par­ties”.

Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed has ad­vised cus­tomers of a pend­ing in­crease in ce­ment prices fol­low­ing high­er man­u­fac­tur­ing costs and a pro­posed in­crease in nat­ur­al gas prices.

This, af­ter chief per­son­nel of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al con­firmed that he, yes­ter­day, made a pro­posed wage set­tle­ment of­fer val­ued at $2.6 bil­lion to the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), struc­tured through a com­bi­na­tion of cash and non-cash ben­e­fits to man­age the State’s fis­cal bur­den.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi has warned that the pro­posed Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions—ZOSOs) (Spe­cial Se­cu­ri­ty and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Mea­sures) Bill, 2026, could lead to the “mil­i­tari­sa­tion” of the State, as the Gov­ern­ment seeks to grant sol­diers po­lice pow­ers un­der new leg­isla­tive mea­sures.

Hun­dreds of re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al en­er­gy stake­hold­ers gath­ered yes­ter­day at the Hy­att Re­gency for the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al con­fer­ence, but the most strik­ing pres­ence was the ab­sence of state-owned en­er­gy com­pa­nies and gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

With Venezuela’s vast gas re­serves and T&T’s un­der­used en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture cre­at­ing a pow­er­ful re­gion­al op­por­tu­ni­ty, cross-bor­der en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion was a top­ic of dis­cus­sion at yes­ter­day’s En­er­gy Con­fer­ence.