The Gov­ern­ment’s al­lo­ca­tion for the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­i­ty Sec­tor sup­port pro­gramme has been re­duced by 80 per cent for 2027, while sev­er­al tourism-re­lat­ed en­ti­ties linked to To­ba­go Car­ni­val have al­so re­ceived low­er al­lo­ca­tions.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin was ap­point­ed to act as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice from yes­ter­day un­til Wednes­day, while Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro leads a Trinidad and To­ba­go del­e­ga­tion at the In­ter­na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Chiefs of Po­lice (IACP) An­nu­al Con­fer­ence and Ex­po­si­tion in Or­lan­do, Flori­da.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has con­firmed re­me­di­al works on the aban­doned Good­wood mi­cro polic­ing unit will be­gin next week.

Rel­a­tives of two To­ba­go fish­er­men who have been miss­ing for near­ly two weeks are turn­ing to DNA test­ing for an­swers af­ter two de­com­pos­ing bod­ies were dis­cov­ered in the wa­ters of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

The burn­ing of three Ra­vana ef­fi­gies, in­clud­ing one stand­ing 85 feet tall, will bring this year’s Ram­leela cel­e­bra­tions at the Pierre Road Recre­ation Ground in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, to a dra­mat­ic close to­mor­row, as the an­nu­al Hin­du the­atri­cal por­tray­al of Lord Ra­ma’s life con­tin­ues to draw pa­trons from across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A del­e­ga­tion of pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor of­fi­cials from Venezuela’s Su­cre State will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go next week to ex­plore eco­nom­ic part­ner­ships, trade and in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties, and strength­en bi­lat­er­al ties be­tween the two coun­tries.

Op­po­si­tion MP Colm Im­bert has ac­cused the East Port-of-Spain De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd of be­ing in breach of the Com­pa­nies Act, af­ter Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee con­firmed that the State com­pa­ny has been with­out a board since May 2025.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Broth­er Valenti­no will take place on Oc­to­ber 29 at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain.

Just two weeks af­ter po­lice shot and killed two al­leged as­sailants in her neigh­bour­hood, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lor Vanes­sa Kussie was robbed out­side her home on Thurs­day night.

The rel­a­tives of 28-year-old An­dell Lee are de­mand­ing an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his fa­tal shoot­ing by po­lice in St Barbs, Laven­tille, on Thurs­day, in­sist­ing the of­fi­cial ac­count of the in­ci­dent does not match what fam­i­ly mem­bers and res­i­dents say oc­curred.

A rob­bery sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict was shot and killed by po­lice in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day af­ter he al­leged­ly point­ed a firearm at of­fi­cers pur­su­ing him dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies of two women with eight chil­dren and two or­phans of a for­mer Trinida­di­an Is­lam­ic State (IS) fight­er strand­ed in a Syr­i­an refugee camp have been en­cour­aged to con­tin­ue talks with the State over its of­fi­cial po­si­tion on whether the group can re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go.