Crim­i­nals are be­ing warned by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to be­have them­selves for Car­ni­val, as the au­thor­i­ties will be out in full force to en­sure law and or­der.

The mur­der toll in­creased by three be­tween Tues­day night and yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing shoot­ings in Pe­tit Val­ley, Tu­na­puna and Bon Air, re­spec­tive­ly.

A group of civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions, trade unions and po­lit­i­cal move­ments gath­ered out­side the Unit­ed States Em­bassy at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah yes­ter­day to protest the US eco­nom­ic block­ade of Cu­ba, de­scrib­ing it as il­le­gal and harm­ful to the Cuban peo­ple.

Ri­val­do Lon­don claimed the Na­tion­al Ac­tion Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee’s 2026 Young Kings crown at the Car­ni­val City, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day night.

While the Ve­hi­cle Man­age­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (VM­COTT) is seek­ing to trans­form the en­ti­ty from a ma­jor loss mak­er in­to a high-rev­enue gen­er­a­tor, the Pub­lic Ac­counts (En­ter­pris­es) Com­mit­tee heard that the State com­pa­ny is con­strained by mil­lions of dol­lars owed by gov­ern­ment agen­cies and for­mer ex­ec­u­tives.

The Op­po­si­tion is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee and Min­is­ters in the Hous­ing Min­istry, Phillip Alexan­der and Anil Roberts. 

One of the men await­ing tri­al for the mur­der of Se­nior Coun­sel Dana See­ta­hal has suc­ceed­ed in a law­suit over a beat­ing he al­leged­ly suf­fered fol­low­ing a ri­ot at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, Arou­ca, at the start of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2020.

A San­gre Grande school­boy was hos­pi­talised but not charged af­ter a con­fronta­tion with uni­formed po­lice of­fi­cers on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Re­tired of­fi­cers who served at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo are call­ing for a for­mal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the use of funds al­lo­cat­ed to the fa­cil­i­ty, as they are still await­ing gra­tu­ity years af­ter com­plet­ing their con­tracts.

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin has moved to al­lay con­cerns among lo­cal artistes, say­ing dis­cus­sions about pos­si­ble tax­a­tion re­main ex­plorato­ry and are far from be­com­ing gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy.

With less than three weeks to go be­fore the 50th Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has not con­firmed whether she will at­tend.

A High Court judge has re­mind­ed ed­u­ca­tors of their le­gal and moral du­ty to pro­tect stu­dents, warn­ing that fail­ure to re­port sex­u­al crimes against mi­nors could re­sult in fines or im­pris­on­ment.