The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has con­firmed that the Unit­ed States made re­quests for its mil­i­tary to op­er­ate with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space and mar­itime zones last year, but is re­fus­ing to dis­close what Wash­ing­ton re­quest­ed, when the re­quests were made or how they were han­dled.

Pub­lic bod­ies re­port­ed $16 bil­lion in pro­cure­ment awards dur­ing fis­cal year 2024/2025, up from $13.7 bil­lion the year be­fore. But the pro­cure­ment sys­tem con­tin­ued to be marked by poor re­port­ing qual­i­ty, lim­it­ed com­pe­ti­tion and sig­nif­i­cant project ex­e­cu­tion chal­lenges, in­clud­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3 bil­lion in un­ful­filled con­tracts, as out­lined in the ex­ec­u­tive sum­ma­ry of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion’s (OPR) 2026 fi­nal an­nu­al re­port, Vol­ume One.

The busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of beloved in­dus­try gi­ant Churchill Azad Akaloo, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Sheik Lisha Ltd, who passed away on Fri­day night.

A new study has found that 97 per cent of the de­bris record­ed on To­ba­go’s At­lantic-fac­ing beach­es was plas­tic, but the garbage is not com­ing from where you think it is.

Two teenagers have been ar­rest­ed and stolen prop­er­ty re­cov­ered fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a home in­va­sion in San­gre Grande.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice de­tained 53 Venezue­lan na­tion­als dur­ing an overnight op­er­a­tion in Curepe. The op­er­a­tion, dubbed “Bor­der Shield”, was car­ried out be­tween 11 p.m. on Fri­day and 5 a.m. on Sat­ur­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says it has made op­er­a­tional prepa­ra­tions for the phased re­lease of peo­ple whose Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders have been re­voked.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ap­proach­es its end, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment will bring the con­tro­ver­sial Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion back to Par­lia­ment as part of its post-SoE crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has slammed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to bring the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) Bill back to Par­lia­ment, ar­gu­ing that its re­vival as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) comes to an end next week shows the Gov­ern­ment has no ef­fec­tive al­ter­na­tive strat­e­gy to tack­le crime.

Less than 24 hours af­ter Star Sab­ga was re­leased from house ar­rest un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) im­posed dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and oth­er Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­mains ac­tive.

Se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials say they were giv­en in­struc­tions to re­lease a to­tal of 563 State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­tainees from prison fa­cil­i­ties in east Trinidad over a phased six-day pe­ri­od, with the cur­rent SoE due to ex­pire on Sep­tem­ber 17.

Five days be­fore the State of Emer­gency (SoE) is due to ex­pire, the Gov­ern­ment was still not say­ing whether it will seek an­oth­er ex­ten­sion, even as Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der main­tains that threats against Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials re­main.