The body of 44-year-old nurse Mar­i­an Bac­chus was found in her Vista­bel­la apart­ment on Sun­day night.

A 22-year-old woman was killed af­ter two ve­hi­cles col­lid­ed near De­onar­ine Junc­tion in Cou­va on Sun­day.

Caribbean Air­lines Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Garvin Med­era has re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, end­ing an eight-year tenure that made him the longest-serv­ing CEO in the state-owned car­ri­er’s his­to­ry.

An in­quest has been or­dered in­to the death of 27-year-old Michael An­ge­lo Fran­cis, who was fa­tal­ly stabbed in Port of Spain ear­li­er this month.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s im­port cov­er has fall­en to its low­est lev­el in decades, de­clin­ing steadi­ly from over eight months cov­er in mid-2023 to just 5.4 months cov­er in Au­gust 2025.

A Unit­ed Na­tions-backed in­dex mea­sur­ing hunger and mal­nu­tri­tion in glob­al hotspots has warned that 5.7 mil­lion Haitians are fac­ing a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing food se­cu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion, as armed groups con­tin­ue to ex­pand their ter­ri­to­r­i­al con­trol around the French-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try.

Hamas re­leased all 20 of the last liv­ing hostages on Mon­day, the Is­raeli mil­i­tary said. It is part of a break­through cease­fire af­ter two years of war be­tween Is­rael and Hamas in the dev­as­tat­ed Gaza Strip.

That’s what Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo says the 2026 Bud­get will be and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar has promised that Gov­ern­ment will try to make every­body hap­py.

With the na­tion­al spot­light on to­day’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ac­knowl­edg­ing that they “can­not give every­body every­thing.”

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has warned of “un­re­al­is­tic promis­es” ahead of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ first na­tion­al Bud­get to­day.

A 22-year-old stu­dent has in­tro­duced a mod­ern and safe al­ter­na­tive to tra­di­tion­al deyas dur­ing Di­vali. Shaz­ara Ram­nar­ine has launched wa­ter-ac­ti­vat­ed LED deyas for this year’s cel­e­bra­tions.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go braces for to­day’s na­tion­al Bud­get, cit­i­zens are voic­ing strong opin­ions on where they be­lieve Gov­ern­ment spend­ing should be fo­cused, with ed­u­ca­tion, crime re­duc­tion, and so­cial sup­port emerg­ing as the lead­ing con­cerns.