A war of words has erupt­ed be­tween Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen and Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne over the fi­nan­cial state of mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions.

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe has re­fused to yield any ground to ex-mi­nor­i­ty leader Kelvon Mor­ris de­spite a seem­ing dis­par­i­ty in vis­i­ble sup­port ahead of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the PNM in­ter­nal elec­tions on April 26.

The High Court has ruled that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) must pay a re­tired po­lice Sergeant, who left the ser­vice due to med­ical rea­sons af­ter 23 years, her full pen­sion and gra­tu­ity, with in­ter­est, af­ter she took the TTPS to court for fail­ing to pay her ben­e­fits for six years.

Tourism stake­hold­ers in To­ba­go have mo­bilised to sup­port the Jo­gie fam­i­ly, days af­ter sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie was killed in a jet ski in­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s Di­vi­sion of En­vi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Re­silience and En­er­gy to­day is­sued a pub­lic no­tice re­mind­ing op­er­a­tors that jet skis and per­son­al wa­ter­craft are not al­lowed in Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park, Buc­coo Beach and nearshore ar­eas.

Res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore will gath­er on Sun­day evening for a can­dle­light vig­il in ho­n­our of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie, whose life was trag­i­cal­ly cut short af­ter she was struck by a jet ski while on va­ca­tion in To­ba­go last Wednes­day.

Two killings in Ari­ma and Diego Mar­tin have pushed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mur­der toll for 2026 to 100.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says wa­ter sup­ply at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex has re­turned to nor­mal fol­low­ing a re­port­ed in­ter­rup­tion ear­li­er on Sat­ur­day.

A new lead­er­ship team is set to take over the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine Guild of Stu­dents fol­low­ing its an­nu­al elec­tions.

Port of Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne has be­come the lat­est PNM lo­cal gov­ern­ment fig­ure to push back against Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen, ac­cus­ing her of de­flect­ing from what he de­scribed as a wors­en­ing fis­cal cri­sis across mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions.

A six-year-old girl is fight­ing for her life af­ter be­ing found un­re­spon­sive in a pool at a chil­dren’s recre­ation­al fa­cil­i­ty in Gas­par­il­lo on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a third at­tempt on the life of Aaron Grap­pie—one of the men once charged in the 2005 kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Sam­daye Ram­per­sad—af­ter he was shot in New Grant, Princes Town, on Fri­day.