Nom­i­nees for na­tion­al ho­n­ours un­der­go care­ful in­ves­ti­ga­tion and vet­ting by the Na­tion­al Awards Com­mit­tee be­fore rec­om­men­da­tions are sub­mit­ted to the Prime Min­is­ter.

A prison of­fi­cer shot and killed an armed in­trud­er dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Freeport on Thurs­day night.

A 56-year-old man was beat­en and robbed in Point Fortin on Wednes­day night while on his way to find a taxi to take him home.

Four schools were evac­u­at­ed af­ter po­lice re­spond­ed to bomb threats re­port­ed at the in­sti­tu­tions yes­ter­day.

The Na­tion­al Awards Com­mit­tee con­ducts care­ful vet­ting of nom­i­nees be­fore mak­ing rec­om­men­da­tions for na­tion­al ho­n­ours, ac­cord­ing to for­mer head of the Pub­lic Ser­vice Reynold Coop­er, who said it is al­so cus­tom­ary for the Chief Jus­tice to re­ceive the coun­try’s high­est award, the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT).

Trinidad and To­ba­go has signed an Air Ser­vices Agree­ment with Chile, es­tab­lish­ing a frame­work for air ser­vices be­tween the two coun­tries.

Four schools have been cleared by po­lice af­ter bomb threats were re­port­ed at Ari­ma North Sec­ondary, El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary, El Do­ra­do West Sec­ondary and Tu­na­puna Sec­ondary.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to pause pas­sage of the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, ar­gu­ing that the pro­posed changes would widen ex­emp­tions and weak­en in­de­pen­dent over­sight.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions (IIR) has can­celled a we­bi­nar fea­tur­ing for­mer Is­raeli am­bas­sador Ephraim Ben Matityahu, cit­ing the on­go­ing Is­raeli-Pales­tin­ian con­flict and the in­tense emo­tions it has gen­er­at­ed.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors An­tho­ny Vieira and Dr Mar­lene Attzs have pushed back against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s at­tack on the In­de­pen­dent Bench, de­fend­ing their con­sti­tu­tion­al role and warn­ing that in­flam­ma­to­ry rhetoric does lit­tle to unite an al­ready di­vid­ed coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned the nine In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors who vot­ed against the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, de­scrib­ing them as “sa­tan­ic” and de­clar­ing that her Gov­ern­ment will no longer ac­cept amend­ments from the In­de­pen­dent bench on any leg­is­la­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­ba­go's in­clu­sion as Dis­trict Sev­en un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill is nec­es­sary to ad­dress the is­land's unique se­cu­ri­ty chal­lenges.