Af­ter weeks of in­ter­nal rifts and dis­con­tent, some mem­bers of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) placed their dif­fer­ences aside on Wednes­day, gath­er­ing for the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s Thanks­giv­ing Ser­vice to kick off Ca­lyp­so His­to­ry Month.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says he is un­fazed as more law­suits are brought against him and the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

Two more men have been or­dered to be de­tained un­der the State of Emer­gency pow­ers at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre for their al­leged gang in­volve­ment.

A joint law en­force­ment op­er­a­tion in Pa­lo Seco on Wednes­day, re­sult­ed in the seizure of co­caine and Colom­bian mar­i­jua­na val­ued at more than $292 mil­lion.

Fol­low­ing a lock­down at San Fer­nan­do West Sec­ondary School on Wednes­day to pre­vent a vi­o­lent af­ter-school clash, con­cerned par­ents are now call­ing for po­lice of­fi­cers to be sta­tioned at the school.

A po­lice raid at a Cunu­pia Church ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing led to a shoot-out and ul­ti­mate­ly the deaths of a 52-year-old man and his son, po­lice said.

A date for the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2026 Bud­get will “most like­ly” be an­nounced to­day, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials said yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is deny­ing claims that her Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing regime change in Venezuela, but stopped short of say­ing whether she recog­nis­es Nicolás Maduro as the coun­try’s Pres­i­dent.

Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries, Ravi Rati­ram, has sig­naled that the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor will be a key fo­cus of the up­com­ing na­tion­al bud­get.

A lead­er­ship row grip­ping the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU), has trig­gered the for­mal in­ter­ven­tion of the Reg­is­trar of Trade Unions, who has asked for a meet­ing with pres­i­dent Don Devi­nesh about com­plaints made against him.

Frus­tra­tion is mount­ing across re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions, as the is­sue of back­pay for coun­cil­lors and al­der­men re­mains un­set­tled, with less than half of the coun­try’s 14 cor­po­ra­tions re­port­ed­ly paid to date.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is re­port­ing ear­ly signs of suc­cess from its new School-Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Unit (SOPU), with of­fi­cers em­bed­ded in 50 high-risk schools.