Four in­ter­na­tion­al vis­i­tors were among nine peo­ple in­jured in a boat­ing ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point, To­ba­go, on Sun­day.

A 27-year-old man was shot and killed near his home on George Street, Port of Spain, on Sun­day night, less than a week af­ter his re­lease from de­ten­tion un­der the State of Emer­gency.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) has elect­ed a new Board of Di­rec­tors to serve for the 2026–2028 term, with Kevin Kissoon of Tru Valu Su­per­mar­kets tak­ing over as pres­i­dent.

West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny (WIT­CO) has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to de­vel­op­ing young pro­fes­sion­als through its 2026 A.I.M. (Ac­cel­er­ate, In­no­vate, Mo­ti­vate) In­tern­ship Pro­gramme.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, two pirogues with sev­er­al pas­sen­gers aboard col­lid­ed around 6.20 pm at the pop­u­lar lo­ca­tion.

Hours af­ter the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill (SOB) passed in the Low­er House, a wave of con­cern swept through the com­mu­ni­ties of Beetham Gar­dens and Sea Lots, as res­i­dents said they now feel “caged” by the leg­is­la­tion.

Bethel res­i­dents and busi­ness own­ers are not pleased with To­ba­go’s in­clu­sion in the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, which was re­cent­ly passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

Le­gal prac­ti­tion­ers say the per­mit sys­tem un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, 2026, is an im­por­tant mech­a­nism for reg­u­lat­ing move­ment in com­mu­ni­ties de­clared “closed ar­eas,” but its prac­ti­cal im­ple­men­ta­tion will be crit­i­cal, par­tic­u­lar­ly in emer­gen­cies.

One day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she would not hes­i­tate to de­clare an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE) if se­cu­ri­ty threats re-emerge, for­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith said such a de­ci­sion would be un­nec­es­sary if the po­lice and oth­er arms of law en­force­ment max­imised their ca­pa­bil­i­ties through tech­nol­o­gy.

High Court Judge Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad says the use of body-worn cam­eras dur­ing po­lice op­er­a­tions rep­re­sents a “win-win” for both law en­force­ment of­fi­cers and cit­i­zens, as the tech­nol­o­gy can pro­vide an ac­cu­rate, re­al-time ac­count of en­coun­ters which lat­er come be­fore the courts.

Crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad says while “hard” polic­ing op­er­a­tions are a nec­es­sary part of any crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tive, he hopes that so­cial in­ter­ven­tions and com­mu­ni­ty-lev­el en­gage­ment would still form a crit­i­cal part of the pro­posed Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill.

Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill in­cludes a clause where “threat­en­ing” or “as­sault­ing” po­lice of­fi­cers in spe­cial op­er­a­tions zones could in­clude things such as go­ing up in of­fi­cers’ faces or threat­en­ing to tape them with cell phones, and that car­ries a $50,000 fine and one year’s im­pris­on­ment, says Op­po­si­tion MP Do­minic Ro­main.