At Tues­day’s launch of the book Coral Reefs of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in Shaw Park, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine chal­lenged the na­tion to pro­tect its blue as­sets-not $100 bills but rather what lies be­neath the sur­face of the sea.

Af­ter days of be­ing con­fined in­doors, some el­der­ly res­i­dents of Debe were fi­nal­ly able to step in­to their yards as flood­wa­ters be­gan to re­cede in parts of south Trinidad af­fect­ed by last week’s se­vere weath­er.

Fam­i­lies across Madras, St He­le­na, Ca­roni, and St Au­gus­tine are strug­gling to re­cov­er af­ter in­tense rain­fall trig­gered se­vere flood­ing that en­gulfed homes in up to four feet of wa­ter.

Head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion, Is­rael Khan, SC, says the group’s mem­ber­ship is large­ly un­fa­mil­iar with in­com­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, but still en­dors­es the vet­er­an of­fi­cer for the role.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has sus­pend­ed the roll­out of its 2025 se­ries $100 poly­mer ban­knote, fol­low­ing a di­rec­tive from the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance to halt pro­duc­tion of notes fea­tur­ing the re­vised Coat of Arms.

A 72-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her home in Brazil Vil­lage ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing, in a mur­der that comes on the heels of an­oth­er sus­pect­ed do­mes­tic killing on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a 20-year-old Diego Mar­tin woman whose body was dis­cov­ered in Carlsen Field ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A li­censed se­cu­ri­ty guard shot a knife-wield­ing pa­tron out­side a Curepe bar ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing af­ter try­ing to break up a fight.

Po­lice opened fire on armed sus­pects in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day—one in Orop­une Gar­dens and the oth­er in Eliz­a­beth Gar­dens, St Joseph.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of once again spread­ing “lies” in an at­tempt to rewrite the events sur­round­ing the 2021 Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) mer­it list de­ba­cle.

The bill to re­peal the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) Act passed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives just af­ter 1:15 a.m. on Sat­ur­day, with 27 votes in favour—in­clud­ing sup­port from To­ba­go East MP David Thomas of the To­ba­go Peo­ple's Par­ty, who vot­ed with the gov­ern­ment.

Af­ter sev­er­al days of alerts that reached the or­ange lev­el, the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has of­fi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued its river­ine flood alert for the Ca­roni and South Oropouche Riv­er basins.