Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Hay­den Forde has ad­mit­ted it is “very alarm­ing and con­cern­ing” that prison of­fi­cers con­tin­ue to en­gage in the smug­gling of con­tra­band in­to the na­tion’s pris­ons.

A for­mer lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) was yes­ter­day forced to aban­don his ap­peal over the dis­missal of his law­suit in which he chal­lenged be­ing made re­dun­dant in 2018, with 14 months left on his con­tract.

While Do­ri­an Forbes and oth­er rel­a­tives saved his bedrid­den moth­er and step­fa­ther from a house fire in Pe­nal, the blaze de­stroyed two homes and all their be­long­ings, leav­ing 12 peo­ple home­less.

A fe­male po­lice con­sta­ble who at­tacked a pupil at a school in Port-of-Spain has been charged with as­sault by beat­ing of a mi­nor.

The re­cent ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion by the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ) on states’ le­gal oblig­a­tions to ad­dress cli­mate change is shap­ing con­ver­sa­tions at COP30, ac­cord­ing to Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) ne­go­tia­tor Car­lon Men­doza.

While it is the opin­ion of many that the an­nu­al Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties is just idle talk, it still serves as a plat­form for the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) to voice their con­cerns and de­mand ac­count­abil­i­ty for the cli­mate cri­sis. Yes­ter­day, Guardian Me­dia spoke with Una­May Gor­don, who func­tions in many roles in the re­gion—Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) Ad­vi­sor, a mem­ber of the Be­lize del­e­ga­tion for COP30, and co-fa­cil­i­ta­tor for the agri­cul­ture dis­cus­sions on be­half of Be­lize. She af­firmed, “I was at COP 6, which was my first COP, and I can say that progress has been made. Al­so, we can say old talk, but if we are not at the ta­ble fight­ing for what we are fight­ing for, then we al­low the de­ci­sions to be made for us, and the de­ci­sions are not al­ways in our favour.”

Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion are call­ing for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress de­plorable con­di­tions at their sta­tion, claim­ing re­peat­ed com­plaints to se­nior of­fi­cers have been ig­nored for years.

A for­mer man­ag­er at the Reg­u­lat­ed In­dus­tries Com­mis­sion (RIC) has re­ceived a life­line in her bid to pur­sue a wrong­ful ter­mi­na­tion case.

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin said gov­ern­ment not stop­ping fetes but it is work­ing with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion to find al­ter­na­tive venues and cre­ate a more bal­anced, in­clu­sive Car­ni­val for 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) has con­demned the Gov­ern­ment’s sud­den ban on the use of UDe­COTT fa­cil­i­ties for so­ca and Car­ni­val-re­lat­ed events, call­ing it a de­struc­tive and short-sight­ed move that threat­ens to crip­ple the na­tion’s tourism and en­ter­tain­ment sec­tors.

A prison of­fi­cer is in cus­tody af­ter be­ing found with drugs and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items dur­ing a joint search ex­er­cise at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion are call­ing for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress what they de­scribe as de­plorable con­di­tions at their sta­tion, claim­ing re­peat­ed com­plaints to se­nior of­fi­cers have gone unan­swered for years.