A man and a woman were wound­ed in a shoot­ing out­side a bar in Siparia ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A marked po­lice ve­hi­cle crashed in Princes Town on Fri­day while of­fi­cers were re­spond­ing to a fire at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty Build­ing in Pi­paro.

A 34-year-old man has died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his home at Jor­dan Ter­race, D’Abadie, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A 50-year-old man has died fol­low­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the South­ern Main Road in Mc Bean, Cou­va.

A 20-year-old man was killed in a col­li­sion on the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near the Army Base on Sat­ur­day night.

A 78-year-old man is dead and his three-year-old grand­son in­jured af­ter an ac­ci­dent on a farm­ing prop­er­ty in Tal­paro on Sat­ur­day.

Two days be­fore the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28, work on the Pa­lo Seco Velo­drome abrupt­ly halt­ed, stalling a $40.6 mil­lion up­grade and leav­ing res­i­dents with an aban­doned site.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing cit­i­zens to be vig­i­lant about pos­si­ble vot­er padding fol­low­ing the pas­sage of the Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) Bill in the Low­er House, which, if en­act­ed, would al­low in­di­vid­u­als to ac­quire cit­i­zen­ship by de­scent through a grand­par­ent.

The Con­sti­tu­tion Amend­ment Bill 2025 will not on­ly be invit­ing ath­letes “back home” to be­come cit­i­zens, but al­so doc­tors, en­gi­neers, en­tre­pre­neurs, and aca­d­e­mics—tack­ling Trinidad and To­ba­go’s “brain drain”, says Sport Min­is­ter Phillip Watts.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas is strong­ly re­ject­ing claims that her union is re­ceiv­ing pref­er­en­tial treat­ment from the Gov­ern­ment af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar or­dered the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of T&T (NIBTT) to pay out­stand­ing ar­rears to work­ers.

The ax­ing of 400 Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers has raised fears of a wider eco­nom­ic and so­cial fall­out, with econ­o­mists warn­ing that the move could re­ver­ber­ate far be­yond the pay pack­ets of those who lost their jobs.

The Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment is again call­ing on the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary to de­sist from pro­vok­ing a war in Caribbean wa­ters af­ter it claimed that a US war­ship “il­le­gal­ly as­sault­ed” a fish­ing ves­sel with nine tu­na fish­er­men on board.