Mariners are rais­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal con­cerns af­ter a slick es­ti­mat­ed to stretch up to two miles long and half a mile wide was spot­ted float­ing in the Gulf of Paria, south of Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day.

There are mixed re­views from some econ­o­mists over Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar la­belling the coun­try a “law­less dump”.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has tak­en aim at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing her of pre­sid­ing over what he de­scribed as a “hate­ful, spite­ful and vin­dic­tive reign”, fol­low­ing her re­marks that Trinidad and To­ba­go has be­come a “law­less dump”.

The pres­i­dent of the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has called on the Gov­ern­ment to re­peal the re­cent in­crease in Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) per­mit fees, while re­as­sur­ing that fares for pas­sen­gers are not ex­pect­ed to rise im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment is ex­pand­ing the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work to in­clude all el­i­gi­ble il­le­gal im­mi­grants cur­rent­ly re­sid­ing with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bor­ders, mov­ing be­yond the pre­vi­ous ex­clu­sive fo­cus on Venezue­lan na­tion­als.

A neigh­bour’s re­gret now hangs over a Point Fortin tragedy, where a 40-year-old man died in a house fire on Sun­day night af­ter hours of vis­i­ble dis­tress.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of a Bel­mont man who re­port­ed­ly died af­ter trip­ping and hit­ting his head on the stair­well to his home.

A woman was robbed at gun­point in­side her Phillip­ine home on Sun­day evening as armed crim­i­nals struck across south and cen­tral Trinidad in a string of week­end rob­beries.

Pi­lots have dis­missed so­cial me­dia re­ports of an im­pend­ing strike, de­scrib­ing the claims as “un­found­ed and mis­chie­vous”. 

A 40-year-old man died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his two-storey home in Point Fortin on Sun­day night.

A Change.org pe­ti­tion start­ed by Tris­tan Hamil­ton has called on Unit­ed States im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties to re­view the res­i­den­cy sta­tus of rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj and con­sid­er her de­por­ta­tion to Trinidad, cit­ing what the pe­ti­tion de­scribes as harm­ful rhetoric and a re­ver­sal of po­si­tions that once aligned her with LGBTQ+ ad­vo­ca­cy.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has in­di­cat­ed that the U.S. has “hit” a dock fa­cil­i­ty along a shore as he wages a pres­sure cam­paign on Venezuela, but the U.S. of­fered few de­tails.