Trinidad and To­ba­go is stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Venezuela as the neigh­bour­ing coun­try mourns vic­tims of the re­cent earth­quake while al­so mark­ing the 215th an­niver­sary of its De­c­la­ra­tion of In­de­pen­dence.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre has con­firmed that the coastal up­lift that tore through the Gal­fa coast­line in Ce­dros last week was a re­sult of the two dead­ly twin earth­quakes that rocked Venezuela’s north­ern coast.

Out­go­ing Chair­man of the 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ter­rance Drew has urged re­gion­al lead­ers to make every ef­fort to at­tend meet­ings where ma­jor de­ci­sions are tak­en, amid the on­go­ing con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Con­fir­ma­tion the TTPS brawled with Sil­ver Stars pan mem­bers af­ter TRIBE's band launch around 2:00 on Sun­day morn­ing. The pan side had been hired to close the fes­tiv­i­ties.

A teenag­er died in a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along Ed­ward Trace, Basse Terre, Moru­ga, at 3am on Sun­day.

A man be­lieved to be a Venezue­lan na­tion­al was shot dead out­side a bar in Pe­nal on Sat­ur­day night, a short dis­tance from the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

State-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has con­firmed that Blue Wa­ters bot­tled wa­ter is no longer be­ing served on its flights, days af­ter the air­line qui­et­ly switched sup­pli­ers fol­low­ing the de­ten­tion of the com­pa­ny’s prin­ci­pal own­ers un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs).

The High Court has re­fused an ur­gent ex parte ap­pli­ca­tion filed by ca­lyp­son­ian Kurt Allen in a bid to stop the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) elec­tion sched­uled for Ju­ly 12, 2026.

As the prin­ci­pal own­ers of Blue Wa­ters re­main in prison fol­low­ing their de­ten­tion un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has stopped serv­ing the com­pa­ny’s bot­tled wa­ter on its flights.

Al­most 24 hours af­ter Shah­naaz Ali was ab­duct­ed in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day, she was tear­ful­ly re­unit­ed with her fam­i­ly around 5 pm yes­ter­day af­ter be­ing res­cued by po­lice of­fi­cers in the Ma­yaro dis­trict.

Fifty il­le­gal mi­grants, in­clud­ing ten chil­dren, were de­tained dur­ing co­or­di­nat­ed po­lice op­er­a­tions over the week­end tar­get­ing sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing and broth­el ac­tiv­i­ty in Port-of-Spain and San Fer­nan­do.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has come out in sup­port of the de­ci­sion by the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) to fire 17 po­lice of­fi­cers.