The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard in­ter­cept­ed a pirogue car­ry­ing four men and a quan­ti­ty of pack­ages sus­pect­ed to con­tain nar­cotics in the north­ern Gulf of Paria on Mon­day.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 pounds of waste were re­moved from the Port of Spain fore­shore dur­ing this year’s In­ter­na­tion­al Coastal Cleanup (ICC) on Sat­ur­day.

The Sen­ate has ap­proved two amend­ments to the Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, Paria Fu­el Trad­ing and Guaracara Re­fin­ing Vest­ing Amend­ment Bill 2026, paving the way for the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) to be deemed the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union for work­ers at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing for both ex­ist­ing col­lec­tive agree­ments and fu­ture col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing.

Guyana po­lice Mon­day said they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of 72.1 pounds of co­caine, which was found last Fri­day, dur­ing an op­er­a­tion along the Five Miles-Itu­ni Trail, Up­per De­mer­ara Riv­er.