Pris­on­ers de­tained at Teteron Bar­racks and Staubles Bay in Ch­aguara­mas em­barked on a hunger strike yes­ter­day and have vowed to keep it up un­til they are re­moved from the fa­cil­i­ties, which they say are un­fit for hu­man oc­cu­pa­tion.

The mur­der of a Port-of-Spain man on Sun­day night, me­tres away from the Dun­can Street Po­lice Post, has been la­belled a gang- re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.

As calls in­ten­si­fy for the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to re­sign, there are warn­ings that in­creased na­tion­wide protests could be loom­ing if he con­tin­ues to ig­nore the pop­u­la­tion’s cries.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is ask­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans for “pa­tience” and “grace” as the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly and Min­istry of Works at­tempt to ad­dress is­sues on the seabridge, as the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny re­mains out of ser­vice.

The Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (JLSC) says it will take no fur­ther steps in re­la­tion to a com­plaint made against for­mer chief mag­is­trate and cur­rent High Court Judge Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar.

Trinidad and To­ba­go made its mark on the Gram­my stage on Sun­day, as lo­cal tal­ent won awards in clas­si­cal mu­sic and mu­sic video cat­e­gories.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad has en­cour­aged cit­i­zens to con­tin­ue to record ques­tion­able con­duct by po­lice of­fi­cers whilst they are on du­ty.

For­mer Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith and re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Garvin Heer­ah are sup­port­ing High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad’s call for the pub­lic to con­tin­ue record­ing po­lice of­fi­cers in the line of du­ty.

Pan El­ders Steel Or­ches­tra (Medi­um)and bp Re­negedes Steel Or­ches­tra (large) are in the lead head­ing in­to the Na­tion­al Panora­ma fi­nals for Car­ni­val 2026.

With the stage set for the 2026 Ju­nior So­ca com­pe­ti­tion fi­nals, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has promised the event will be a safe zone for stu­dent per­form­ers.

Pop­u­lar tele­vi­sion host Ian Al­leyne has suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed a law­suit brought by a Ch­agua­nas me­chan­ic over be­ing ar­rest­ed af­ter ap­pear­ing as a guest on his show. 

A 47-year-old Arou­ca man was ar­rest­ed and ex­pect­ed to be charged yes­ter­day, af­ter he re­port­ed­ly ac­cept­ed a quan­ti­ty of cash from a man, but failed to pro­vide him with a van that he claimed to have for sale.