The In­ter Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank’s pri­vate sec­tor arm, IDB In­vest, has ap­proved fi­nanc­ing of up to US$500 mil­lion for the ANSA McAL Group to sup­port in­vest­ments aimed at ex­pand­ing in­dus­tri­al ca­pac­i­ty and strength­en­ing sup­ply chains across the Caribbean.

The UWI Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (UWI Seis­mic) has con­firmed that two earth­quakes shook Trinidad and To­ba­go be­fore 7 o’clock this morn­ing, with one quake be­ing felt in Trinidad as far south as San Fer­nan­do, and as far east as Ari­ma and Scar­bor­ough in To­ba­go.

Af­ter weeks as leader-in-wait­ing, Burn­ham of­fi­cial­ly be­came prime min­is­ter on Mon­day dur­ing a meet­ing with King Charles III at Buck­ing­ham Palace.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment Sun­day night con­firmed that the bod­ies of two peo­ple had been found and the search and res­cue op­er­a­tions con­tin­ue for at least 70 oth­er peo­ple still miss­ing and feared dead af­ter the fer­ry MV Bari­ma cap­sized on Sat­ur­day night as it made its way from George­town to Port Kai­tu­ma, a small vil­lage with­in the Bari­ma-Wai­ni ad­min­is­tra­tive re­gion of the coun­try.

Twelve hours af­ter a triple mur­der in Laven­tille sent shock­waves across the coun­try, gun­fire erupt­ed in Siparia on Sat­ur­day night, leav­ing two men dead and res­i­dents fear­ful.

The fi­nal whis­tle sparked scenes of ju­bi­la­tion at Movi­eTowne Fi­es­ta Plaza yes­ter­day as Spain lift­ed the 2026 FI­FA World Cup tro­phy, bring­ing an end to a month of foot­ball that cap­ti­vat­ed fans across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Res­i­dents liv­ing near the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo are call­ing for tighter se­cu­ri­ty at the cen­tre af­ter 14 men es­caped on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Al­most one year af­ter dozens of pris­on­ers were trans­ferred from the Max­i­mum-Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca to Teteron Bar­racks un­der the 2025 State of Emer­gency, the le­gal­i­ty of those moves is now be­fore the High Court, with at­tor­ney Criston J Williams ar­gu­ing that the case could be­come an­oth­er ma­jor test of the con­sti­tu­tion­al lim­its on ex­ec­u­tive pow­er.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said Trinidad and To­ba­go’s troops will be de­ployed to sup­port res­cue ef­forts fol­low­ing the MV Bari­ma tragedy in Guyana.

Po­lice seized 345 firearms over the past sev­en months, with pis­tols ac­count­ing for the largest num­ber of weapons found.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment (MP) for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is fir­ing back at Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der af­ter he blamed the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion for what he de­scribed as de­te­ri­o­rat­ing con­di­tions in Mal­oney.

Pan Trin­ba­go is mark­ing the sec­ond an­niver­sary of the steel­pan’s des­ig­na­tion as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Na­tion­al Mu­si­cal In­stru­ment, de­scrib­ing the mile­stone as a cel­e­bra­tion of the coun­try’s cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty and the glob­al lega­cy of the on­ly acoustic mu­si­cal in­stru­ment in­vent­ed in the 20th cen­tu­ry.