Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) Di­rec­tor David West says the au­thor­i­ty suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its role in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the 2018 fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of five men in Laven­tille, fol­low­ing a High Court rul­ing that or­dered the State to pay their fam­i­lies more than $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), Far­ley Au­gus­tine, says To­bag­o­ni­ans can be as­sured that no pol­i­cy to re­move the do­mes­tic air­bridge sub­sidy is about to be rolled out.

Al­most eight years af­ter five men were shot dead by po­lice near their Laven­tille homes, the State has been or­dered to pay their fam­i­lies more than $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay more than $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to two men who were false­ly ac­cused on so­cial me­dia of hav­ing sex in a car af­ter their ar­rest for breach­ing a Covid-19 cur­few.

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.