As his voice cracked with emo­tion, for­mer House Speak­er Nizam Mo­hammed called on at­tor­neys to unite and form a con­sor­tium to fight for the re­lease of over 200 cit­i­zens who re­main in­car­cer­at­ed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The An­ju­man Sun­nat ul Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion Inc. (AS­JA) has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment over Trinidad and To­ba­go's re­cent vote at the Unit­ed Na­tions con­cern­ing the reap­point­ment of the UN High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights, say­ing it ap­pears to mark a de­par­ture from this coun­try's long­stand­ing sup­port for the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two largest busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions have wel­comed the re­duc­tion in Unit­ed States tar­iffs on lo­cal ex­ports, de­scrib­ing the move as a boost for ex­porters while warn­ing that busi­ness­es must con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing an in­creas­ing­ly un­cer­tain glob­al trad­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

On Ju­ly 18, 14 men car­ried out the largest es­cape in the his­to­ry of the Aripo Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) with a small fire.

Nine peo­ple be­ing held un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), along with two prison of­fi­cers, have been charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences fol­low­ing a Pris­on­er Pro­cess­ing Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed on Fri­day at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre and the Ex­tend­ed Re­mand Fa­cil­i­ty.

When he was a teenag­er, Alex Philip left Venezuela, deeply en­trenched in a life of crime, to come to Trinidad to re­shape his des­tiny.

Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, have been de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as the Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU) dis­man­tled an al­leged hu­man traf­fick­ing net­work dur­ing a mul­ti-agency op­er­a­tion span­ning Trinidad and To­ba­go.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der­takes its first lo­cal­ly led deep-sea sci­en­tif­ic ex­pe­di­tion, a larg­er ques­tion emerges: Why are gov­ern­ments dis­cussing deep-sea min­ing in ecosys­tems sci­en­tists have bare­ly be­gun to un­der­stand?

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) says it has record­ed its strongest fi­nan­cial per­for­mance in 17 years, post­ing a prof­it af­ter tax of TT$214 mil­lion for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed March 31, 2026, but the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is urg­ing the com­pa­ny to trans­late that suc­cess in­to long-de­layed wage set­tle­ments for em­ploy­ees.

While he says he and his moth­er are still trau­ma­tised af­ter a home in­va­sion at his Bel­mont home on Mon­day night, co-founder of the non-gov­ern­men­tal re­li­gious or­gan­i­sa­tion Cham­pi­ons of the Trans­fig­ured Christ (CTC) Kyle Dar­d­aine has cred­it­ed God for strength­en­ing their re­solve through the in­ci­dent.

A 46-year-old Pe­nal man who was want­ed by South­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice of­fi­cers was shot and killed by po­lice of­fi­cers when he re­port­ed­ly point­ed a gun at them at a house on Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, on Thurs­day night.

CNC3/Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed has se­cured the broad­cast rights for the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) and the Women’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (WC­PL) in Trinidad and To­ba­go, giv­ing fans ac­cess to ex­ten­sive cov­er­age of both tour­na­ments.