De­spite the Green Fund con­tain­ing $12.9 bil­lion, as con­firmed by the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts for 2025, en­vi­ron­men­tal non-gov­ern­ment or­gan­i­sa­tions (NGOs) and com­mu­ni­ty groups con­tin­ue to re­port is­sues with ac­cess­ing fund­ing.

More than three months af­ter Car­ni­val 2026, steel­bands across T&T are still wait­ing to re­ceive their Panora­ma prize mon­ey, with Pan Trin­ba­go pres­i­dent Bev­er­ley Ram­sey-Moore say­ing thou­sands of play­ers and stake­hold­ers re­main in lim­bo.

An idea con­cep­tu­alised many years ago is ex­pect­ed to be tru­ly awak­ened when the fifth an­nu­al To­ba­go Car­ni­val gets un­der­way from Oc­to­ber 30 to No­vem­ber 1.

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Sea Lots ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing end­ed in the death of a 33-year-old man and the wound­ing of a woman, po­lice said.

Paris Saint-Ger­main won back-to-back Cham­pi­ons League tro­phies by beat­ing Ar­se­nal on penal­ties in a dra­mat­ic fi­nal in Puskas Are­na on Sat­ur­day.

As part of ef­forts to counter at­tri­tion in the Prison Ser­vice while en­sur­ing op­ti­mal staffing in dif­fer­ent units, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has an­nounced that 800 prison of­fi­cers will be re­cruit­ed.

A Guyanese sol­dier was wound­ed fol­low­ing a gun­fight with armed men in Venezuela that oc­curred along their shared bor­der, au­thor­i­ties said.

Po­lice across 20 coun­tries in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, South Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean have seized 3,308 il­le­gal firearms and 56 tonnes of il­lic­it drugs dur­ing a large-scale co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tion led by IN­TER­POL, with sup­port from the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS).

As rel­a­tives gath­ered in grief and si­lence, Shawn Black­burn stood on the road­side car­ry­ing a bur­den no par­ent should ever have to bear—the loss of a child.

To­ba­go reg­is­tered its sixth mur­der for 2026 as a Union man was gunned down near his home on Fri­day night.

Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies lec­tur­er and his­to­ri­an Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh says Trinidad and To­ba­go’s strong tra­di­tion of re­li­gious tol­er­ance was forged through the shared strug­gles, suf­fer­ing and re­sis­tance of en­slaved Africans and in­den­tured In­di­ans un­der colo­nial rule.

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Sea Lots in the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day morn­ing end­ed with the death of a 33-year-old man and the wound­ing of a woman, po­lice said.