Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo yes­ter­day laid the first wreath at the Re­mem­brance Day ob­ser­vance at Memo­r­i­al Park, a day af­ter urg­ing teenagers at a mock UN meet­ing to strive for peace in the re­gion.

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and two firearms, quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion, and nar­cotics were seized by Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice dur­ing sev­er­al in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed over the past 48 hours.

A 24-year-old woman was raped by her ex-boyfriend on Fri­day morn­ing af­ter he threat­ened to harm her fa­ther.

Fif­teen Venezue­lan na­tion­als, in­clud­ing a 16-year-old girl, were de­tained in To­ba­go for il­le­gal en­try dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion on Fri­day. One woman was al­so held af­ter au­thor­i­ties found a small quan­ti­ty of a sub­stance re­sem­bling the par­ty drug MD­MA.

South­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the deaths of two men over the week­end, in­clud­ing a de­com­pos­ing body dis­cov­ered at a house in Ste Madeleine.

At age 19, when Shere­sa Rahim start­ed ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­ex­plained weight changes, in­creased pe­ri­od pain, and fa­cial hair growth, she was un­aware that she had Poly­cys­tic Ovary Syn­drome (PCOS). Oth­er symp­toms in­clud­ed men­tal strug­gles and fa­tigue.

Crab catch­ers in Ma­yaro are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to cre­ate guide­lines and reg­u­la­tions for mem­bers of the pub­lic who view crab-catch­ing as a hob­by rather than a liveli­hood.

A new soil map for Trinidad and To­ba­go — said to be the first since 1962 — is set to play a piv­otal role in ad­vanc­ing sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture and re­duc­ing the na­tion­al food im­port bill.

“I feel I could go an­oth­er 70 years,” laughed Nor­ma Hart as she and her hus­band, Lloyd Hart, cel­e­brat­ed sev­en decades of mar­riage. Their plat­inum an­niver­sary was marked on No­vem­ber 2 at the Re­vival Time As­sem­bly at King’s Wharf, San Fer­nan­do, where Mr Hart once served as se­nior pas­tor for 30 years.

Two hun­dred com­mu­ni­ty vol­un­teers grad­u­at­ed from the 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Re­sponse Team (CERT) train­ing pro­gramme yes­ter­day, as the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment strength­ened ef­forts to build dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness and re­silience across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) will de­ploy a Mu­tu­al Aid team to Ja­maica to sup­port pow­er‑restora­tion ef­forts fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Eu­ro­pean, Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean na­tions will meet Sun­day in Colom­bia to try to strength­en ties amid di­vi­sions in the West­ern Hemi­sphere over the U.S. mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion tar­get­ing al­leged drug-car­ry­ing ves­sels.