Shares in Elon Musk’s rock­et com­pa­ny SpaceX soared 25% af­ter open­ing for trad­ing at noon Fri­day, an aus­pi­cious start for his­to­ry’s biggest ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing and enough to push the net worth of its founder and CEO over the tril­lion dol­lar mark.

Two men and a woman have been ar­rest­ed and are ex­pect­ed to be charged in con­nec­tion with two sep­a­rate home in­va­sions in San­gre Grande ear­ly on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is pre­pared to or­gan­ise its own In­de­pen­dence cel­e­bra­tions if Gov­ern­ment can­cels the na­tion­al In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year, ar­gu­ing that the an­nu­al event is too im­por­tant to the coun­try's his­to­ry and iden­ti­ty to be aban­doned.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle has crit­i­cised the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), ac­cus­ing the par­ty of be­ing hos­tile to­ward Afro-Trinida­di­ans and com­mu­ni­ties that have tra­di­tion­al­ly sup­port­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Au­thor­i­ties are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a pos­si­ble spill off Trinidad’s coast af­ter re­ports and video footage emerged from the wa­ter­front area on Fri­day.

One month af­ter her two-year-old son was re­port­ed miss­ing, Kali­fah To­bias made an emo­tion­al re­turn to Cam­bridge Trace, Good­wood.

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion are warn­ing dri­vers em­ployed with ride-share com­pa­nies to ex­er­cise cau­tion when agree­ing to meet po­ten­tial cus­tomers, not­ing there has been an in­crease in re­port­ed rob­beries.

Busi­ness­man Gary Aboud is warn­ing that mem­bers of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty may even­tu­al­ly choose to leave the coun­try if what he de­scribes as grow­ing racial tar­get­ing and po­lit­i­cal hos­til­i­ty con­tin­ues.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has thrown her full sup­port be­hind the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s warn­ing that no seg­ment of so­ci­ety, in­clud­ing the so-called “one per cent”, is be­yond the reach of the law, al­leg­ing that some cur­rent and for­mer se­nior bank­ing of­fi­cials fa­cil­i­tat­ed for­eign cur­ren­cy trans­ac­tions for lo­cal busi­ness­es linked to in­ter­na­tion­al drug car­tels.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Gov­ern­ment’s an­ti-crime plan is al­ready de­liv­er­ing mea­sur­able re­sults, but crim­i­nal syn­di­cates re­main suf­fi­cient­ly or­gan­ised and dan­ger­ous that au­thor­i­ties re­quire a fur­ther three months un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE) to com­plete in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions and se­cure long-term gains.

Of­fi­cial at­ten­dance records say 80,824 spec­ta­tors packed the new­ly ren­o­vat­ed Es­ta­dio Azteca in Mex­i­co City, Mex­i­co, for yes­ter­day’s open­ing 2026 FI­FA World Cup match be­tween Mex­i­co and South Africa.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is slam­ming the two To­ba­go MPs over their sup­port of the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency, la­belling them as “blind pup­pets” of the Gov­ern­ment.