As a uni­ver­si­ty fo­cused on us­ing re­search for the up­lift­ment of its com­mu­ni­ty, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine (UWI STA), the pre­mier ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion in the re­gion, pro­duc­ing world-class schol­ars, be­lieves sci­ence should be ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic. We are pleased to present our me­dia se­ries, “UWI Sci­en­tists Speak”. In this se­ries, our sci­en­tists—three of whom re­ceived the na­tion’s high­est ho­n­our, the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in 2023 and one in 2024—will show­case some of their work.

Two men are in hos­pi­tal un­der po­lice guard af­ter be­ing shot by po­lice in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents af­ter at­tack­ing law en­force­ment of­fi­cers.

An in­ter­faith memo­r­i­al ser­vice was held on Fri­day in ho­n­our of the vic­tims of the Air In­dia Flight 171 crash. The ser­vice was host­ed by the Cul­tur­al Her­itage Am­bas­sadors of T&T (CHATT).

With the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­ter­nal elec­tions set for to­day, ten­sion is mount­ing as mem­bers have for­mal­ly ex­pressed con­cern over the in­tegri­ty of the vot­ing process.

Found­ing mem­ber of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Fer­di­nand Fer­reira is pre­dict­ing vic­to­ry for Pen­ne­lope Beck­less One PNM slate of can­di­dates, some of whom he de­scribed as “heavy bag­gage” vy­ing for po­si­tions on the par­ty’s na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive.

As ques­tions mount over the lead­er­ship of the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NGC), at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen is due to re­ceive his for­mal in­stru­ment of ap­point­ment to the com­pa­ny’s Board of Di­rec­tors.

In a pub­lic state­ment ahead of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­ter­nal elec­tions, PNM MP for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Stu­art Young, SC, has made it clear that his si­lence dur­ing the cam­paign pe­ri­od was a de­lib­er­ate choice root­ed in prin­ci­ple, not weak­ness.

Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tol­er­ance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse – sex­u­al, spir­i­tu­al or abuse of au­thor­i­ty — and called for “trans­par­ent process­es” to cre­ate a cul­ture of pre­ven­tion across the church.

Ja­maica is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a sus­tained pe­ri­od of re­duced vi­o­lence, with week­ly mur­der counts re­main­ing be­low 15 for 14 con­sec­u­tive weeks since March 2025, the longest such stretch in 25 years.

Pan Trin­ba­go has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to mu­si­cians world­wide in recog­ni­tion of World Mu­sic Day, ob­served an­nu­al­ly on June 21. The or­gan­i­sa­tion ac­knowl­edged the glob­al cel­e­bra­tion of mu­sic and paid trib­ute to steel­band mu­si­cians in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Po­lice re­port­ed that Neil Adri­an Collins of Sobo Ex­ten­sion, La Brea was shot while lim­ing at a par­lour at Wal­cott Lane, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas.

Two men are in hos­pi­tal un­der po­lice guard af­ter they were shot by po­lice in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents af­ter at­tack­ing the law­men.