Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) stal­wart Don Sylvester, 72, was re­mem­bered yes­ter­day as he was laid to rest, fit­ting­ly on the 37th an­niver­sary of the UNC, as the kind of man who could make you laugh even when you want­ed to cry, and who nev­er wa­vered in his loy­al­ty to his par­ty or his friends.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar held bi­lat­er­al talks with Saint Lu­cia’s Prime Min­is­ter Philip J Pierre yes­ter­day, in a meet­ing which comes amid on­go­ing scruti­ny over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Cari­com un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Al­though in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by nurs­es has be­gun to af­fect ser­vices at sev­er­al pub­lic health in­sti­tu­tions, rel­a­tives of pa­tients at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal say care there has re­mained large­ly sta­ble.

The psy­chi­atric ward at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) has been re­lo­cat­ed to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal as health au­thor­i­ties move to in­crease bed ca­pac­i­ty at the fa­cil­i­ty.

Trade unions are ex­pect­ed to take to the streets to­day, but in a marked shift from re­cent years, the dom­i­nant mes­sage is like­ly to be one of cau­tious praise rather than out­right protest.

A Ch­agua­nas man iden­ti­fied by po­lice as a sus­pect­ed ex­tor­tion­ist was killed dur­ing a “Con­trolled Pay­ment Op­er­a­tion” con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit yes­ter­day.

A Pe­nal man who killed his broth­er dur­ing a vi­o­lent con­fronta­tion has been sen­tenced to ten years in prison af­ter the court ac­cept­ed that he act­ed un­der provo­ca­tion while try­ing to pro­tect their el­der­ly moth­er.

Ig­nor­ing the dan­ger to her­self, Po­lice Con­sta­ble Dar­lene Renn stepped be­tween a man and the woman he was beat­ing—a split-sec­ond de­ci­sion she be­lieves may have saved the woman’s life.

More than a week af­ter nine-year-old J’Lay­na Arm­strong and three oth­ers were gunned down on La­dy Young Road in Mor­vant, po­lice say no ar­rests have been made in con­nec­tion with the quadru­ple mur­der.

New head of the T&T Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS), As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Wayne Mys­tar, says po­lice cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley’s col­leagues are still very trau­ma­tised by her mur­der.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has fall­en 13 places in the 2026 World Press Free­dom In­dex re­leased yes­ter­day by Re­porters With­out Bor­ders, de­spite main­tain­ing what the re­port de­scribes as a “good record” and a “vi­brant me­dia land­scape.”

Jet ski own­ers and op­er­a­tors say their liveli­hoods hang in the bal­ance as the court to­day con­sid­ers whether to con­tin­ue re­stric­tions im­posed fol­low­ing a fa­tal ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point.