Po­lice and fire of­fi­cers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a house fire in New Grant in which a 40-year-old man died last evening.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of Der­rick Tardieu, 70, and his wife, Clari­bel Tardieu, 47, af­ter rel­a­tives re­ceived a ran­som de­mand late Sat­ur­day night. The cou­ple, who live at Blanchette Bay, Monas, were re­port­ed miss­ing af­ter a fam­i­ly friend re­ceived a dis­tress­ing voice note from a for­eign num­ber in which Der­rick said he had been kid­napped and “dey have meh and want 2.5 mil­lion US for meh re­lease.”

The Cou­va Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee is call­ing on po­lice to al­low its 2026 fes­tiv­i­ties to run their full course.

Last Fri­day’s re­moval of Navin Dook­er­an as Ex­port Im­port Bank of T&T Ltd (EX­IM­BANK) CEO has sparked con­cern across the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, with cham­bers call­ing for ur­gent mea­sures to en­sure con­ti­nu­ity and sta­bil­i­ty at the state-owned fi­nan­cial fa­cil­i­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day an­nounced that Guyana is un­der­tak­ing ma­jor hos­pi­tal con­struc­tion and that “very soon, Trinidad and To­ba­go will be able to pro­vide job op­por­tu­ni­ties for our med­ical prac­ti­tion­ers in Guyana.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will not en­gage in spec­u­la­tion about how Trinidad and To­ba­go would re­spond if the Unit­ed States ini­ti­ates land strikes in Venezuela, po­ten­tial­ly trig­ger­ing mass mi­gra­tion across the re­gion.

As the re­gion watch­es a rise in US mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in the Caribbean re­gion, diplo­mats meet­ing in San Fer­nan­do urged calm on Sat­ur­day night, with one busi­ness leader say­ing, “War is bad for busi­ness.”

​​Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer yes­ter­day chal­lenged the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) to come with a prop­er of­fer to work­ers when both sides sit at the ne­go­ti­a­tion ta­ble for a piv­otal round of talks to­day.

In light of the pre­vail­ing eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, gov­ern­ment min­istries and state en­ter­pris­es in T&T are im­ple­ment­ing mea­sures to curb non-es­sen­tial spend­ing dur­ing the fes­tive sea­son.

Four men were killed in four sep­a­rate in­ci­dents that took place be­tween Fri­day night and yes­ter­day morn­ing across T&T.

Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land ho­n­oured 37 young achiev­ers on Sat­ur­day, as the con­stituen­cy host­ed its first Day of Ex­cel­lence Youth Awards at City Hall, Port-of-Spain.

A year ago, Trinidad and To­ba­go ral­lied around 20-year-old Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies stu­dent and can­cer pa­tient Chloe Ram­nar­ine, and helped her get life-sav­ing can­cer surgery.