U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Wednes­day that oil prices that have surged be­cause of the Iran war like­ly won’t come down un­til af­ter U.S. midterm elec­tions.

Two armed men robbed a 24-hour phar­ma­cy in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing, af­ter ty­ing up two work­ers.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue sup­port­ing mea­sures aimed at mak­ing the jus­tice sys­tem faster, more ef­fi­cient and more ac­ces­si­ble to cit­i­zens.

Pre­mier Restau­rants CEO Vish­nu Ma­haraj has de­fend­ed the pric­ing at the new­ly opened Ap­ple­bee’s and IHOP restau­rants at Grand Bazaar, say­ing the prices are af­ford­able de­spite so­cial me­dia posts sug­gest­ing oth­er­wise.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says vi­o­lence has no place in schools, but warned that sus­pen­sions, ex­pul­sions and po­lice in­ter­ven­tion alone will not solve the prob­lem.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) has elect­ed a new board of di­rec­tors to serve for the 2026-2028 term.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has de­nied li­a­bil­i­ty in the fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach which claimed the life of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has thrown his sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s tough stance on vi­o­lent and dis­rup­tive stu­dents, sug­gest­ing at­ten­tion should in­stead be placed on par­ents who are “rais­ing crim­i­nals” in their homes.

Sco­tia­bank Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed has re­port­ed an af­ter-tax in­come of $449 mil­lion for the nine months end­ed Ju­ly 2026, rep­re­sent­ing a 15 per cent de­crease com­pared to the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

A 62-year-old man was shot and killed in Mor­vant on Tues­day night, the sec­ond shoot­ing in the area in as many days.

Ma­yaro MP Nicholas Mor­ris has thrown his sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s stance on school in­dis­ci­pline, ar­gu­ing that par­ents and the home must play a cen­tral role in ad­dress­ing vi­o­lence and bad be­hav­iour among stu­dents.

Po­lice are putting a greater em­pha­sis on so­cial in­ter­ven­tion and tack­ling the root caus­es of stu­dent vi­o­lence, as new po­lice da­ta shows re­port­ed fights in­volv­ing school­child­ren have in­creased from 27 in 2025 to at least 36 so far this year.