The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the reg­is­tra­tion and op­er­a­tions of Sarah’s Prepara­to­ry School in La Ro­maine af­ter 20 res­i­dents—many of them el­der­ly—signed a pe­ti­tion com­plain­ing of ex­ces­sive noise and traf­fic in their qui­et sea­side com­mu­ni­ty.

Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) scored 41 out of 100 in the 2025 Cor­rup­tion Per­cep­tions In­dex (CPI), plac­ing 81st out of 182 coun­tries.

Let­ters of of­fer sent to sev­er­al ap­pli­cants for the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) Cau­ra hous­ing units have re­port­ed­ly been void­ed, de­spite re­cip­i­ents hav­ing what Op­po­si­tion PNM Sen­a­tor Vish­nu Dhan­paul de­scribed as “le­git­i­mate ex­pec­ta­tions” that the of­fers would be ho­n­oured.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killing of a Curepe man yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) has ad­vised that in­ter­na­tion­al clas­si­fi­ca­tion sur­vey­ors, com­mon­ly re­ferred to as “class”, have cleared the ves­sel Blue Wave Har­mo­ny and it is re­turn­ing to in­ter-is­land op­er­a­tions to­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is call­ing on mas­quer­aders to re­frain from do­ing any­thing to em­bar­rass or hu­mil­i­ate them­selves or their loved ones while en­joy­ing the Car­ni­val rev­el­ry. Her com­ment came amidst calls by Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don for the Gov­ern­ment to reg­u­late the fes­tiv­i­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has lashed out at Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MPs who com­plained about the dis­rup­tion caused by the re­cent “Stink and Dut­ty” fete, ac­cus­ing them of po­lit­i­cal hypocrisy.

Fol­low­ing their sev­enth vic­to­ry in the medi­um-bands cat­e­go­ry, the Pan El­ders Steel Or­ches­tra may be en­ter­ing a new area of com­pe­ti­tion next Car­ni­val, ac­cord­ing to band leader Hol­lis­ter Smith.

Reign­ing cham­pi­ons Re­pub­lic Bank Ex­o­dus Steel­band will per­form ninth at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah when the Panora­ma Large Band Con­ven­tion­al fi­nals take place this Sat­ur­day.

Four-time stick­fight­ing cham­pi­on Sel­wyn John re­claimed his cov­et­ed King of the Rock ti­tle and was crowned Kalin­da King of Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter de­feat­ing his nephew, An­der­son Mar­cano, in a jaw-drop­ping bout in Moru­ga yes­ter­day morn­ing.

It was a “Ram­page” on stage as stu­dents and par­ents “Link Up” at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, where Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do’s Mar­cus Mc­Don­ald and St Pe­ter’s Pri­vate Pri­ma­ry School’s Ky­mani “Yung Ky­mani” Hec­tor-Kalloo cap­tured the 2026 Ju­nior So­ca ti­tles in a blaz­ing dis­play of youth­ful tal­ent.

For­mer work­ers of the Cabo Star are call­ing for eq­ui­ty af­ter its re­place­ment, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, was manned by for­eign sea­far­ers.