A teenag­er was killed yes­ter­day in what po­lice be­lieve is a reprisal for last Mon­day’s killing of Kurligh Si­mon.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Pe­ter David says Grena­da should not al­low the Unit­ed States to sta­tion mil­i­tary as­sets on the is­land, warn­ing that such a move would in­flame re­gion­al ten­sions rather than pro­mote peace.

Act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Sab­ri­na Dougdeen-Jaglal, has or­dered an in­quest to be held in­to the death of Michael An­ge­lo Fran­cis, who sus­tained stab wounds and sub­se­quent­ly died at the hos­pi­tal on Oc­to­ber 5.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has ramped up its an­ti-crime dri­ve with a se­ries of tar­get­ed op­er­a­tions across the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sions on Sun­day, re­sult­ing in the seizure of nar­cotics and il­le­gal items—in­clud­ing near a com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre.

Rel­a­tives of mur­dered busi­ness­man Im­raz “Clubs” Ali are due to re­turn to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James to­day, to as­sist in­ves­ti­ga­tors in their ef­forts to fur­ther iden­ti­fy the de­com­pos­ing body found over the week­end.

A Pi­paro man had to be rushed to the hos­pi­tal on Sun­day night fol­low­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Laven­tille.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced a phased in­crease in Na­tion­al In­sur­ance con­tri­bu­tions to pro­tect the fund from in­sol­ven­cy and pre­serve ben­e­fits for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions. The first 3 per cent rise takes ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 5, 2026, fol­lowed by a sec­ond 3 per cent in­crease on Jan­u­ary 4, 2027, spread­ing the bur­den over two years to min­imise im­pact on con­trib­u­tors while en­sur­ing the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the sys­tem

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced steep in­creas­es in Cus­toms Du­ties on al­co­hol and to­bac­co prod­ucts, which he said will ac­count for 80 per cent of pro­ject­ed rev­enue growth in the com­ing fis­cal year.

Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas de­clared vic­to­ry for pub­lic of­fi­cers af­ter Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo an­nounced that he had in­struct­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) to be­gin wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for a 10 per cent in­crease.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a 10 per cent pay in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to set­tle long-out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to end state fund­ing of crim­i­nal gangs by phas­ing out the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced a $1 re­duc­tion in the price of Su­per gaso­line, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.