NEWS
TTPS confident US radar removal won’t affect crime fight
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) says its crime-fighting operations will continue uninterrupted despite the removal of a United States military radar that supported surveillance efforts across the country. Deputy Commissioner of Police Suzette Martin, who is currently overseeing operations, downplayed the impact of the departure. While acknowledging the system’s past utility, Martin signalled a return to traditional policing. “While the system had provided useful support in certain operations, including efforts aimed at intercepting illicit activities, the TTPS continues to rely on a range of intelligence-led and collaborative strategies to effectively police our borders and territorial waters.” “At this time, the TTPS does not anticipate any significant disruption in ongoing operations.” Read more here
Woman, 28, found stabbed after relatives break into home
A 28-year-old woman was found stabbed to death at her home in Cedros on Tuesday. She was identified as Rashme Deoajit. Police said relatives went to her home, after she failed to answer their calls. And when she didn't respond there, her relatives climbed through a window to get inside. They found Deoajit unresponsive, with stab wounds about the body. Deoajit was a professional cricketer. Police are searching for a man close to Deoajit. Read more here
POLITICS
Sobers: Deportations from UK ongoing, not sudden
Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Sean Sobers has moved to clarify reports regarding the repatriation of Trinidad and Tobago nationals who sought asylum in the United Kingdom, stressing that the returns did not happen suddenly and were not a surprise to the Government. Sobers explained that deportations have occurred gradually over several years as individual asylum claims were processed and rejected by the UK Home Office. “The UK has a system that determines whether a claim is bona fide,” Sobers said, noting that investigations can take months or even years depending on complexity. He rejected suggestions that hundreds of nationals were sent home at once. “It is not that they just pack 700 persons on a plane and send them home yesterday. People would have been repatriated to Trinidad over a period of time since the claims were made.” Read more here
Alexander: Police on high alert
Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander says police have been placed on “high alert” with respect to nationals repatriated from the United Kingdom who have allegations of murder and gun-running against them. Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Sean Sobers told the Express on Monday that hundreds of Trinidad and Tobago nationals who travelled to the UK and applied for asylum had been repatriated. Sobers said between 90% to 97% of the 700-plus nationals who had sought asylum had been returned to T&T in the past couple months. Read more here
BUSINESS
Farmers struggle as bushfires surge in T&T
Bushfires have been gripping Trinidad and Tobago, leaving many complaining of respiratory problems and impaired vision while driving. But beyond these immediate effects, the fires are also impacting the agricultural sector, extensively destroying vegetation, crops and wildlife. President of the Agricultural Society of T&T Daryl Rampersad said that while only a small number of his members have been directly affected so far, he stressed the need for proper equipment and more resources at T&T Fire Service stations. Read more here
REGIONAL
‘We have to get our boys, men back into schools, universities’
THE growing disengagement of boys and young men from the formal education system in Guyana is becoming alarming, President, Dr Irfaan Ali has said. Speaking at the 2026 Senior Prison Officers’ Conference on Monday, President Ali underscored the need for early intervention to tackle the root causes of crime and social instability. He highlighted, too, the government’s ongoing efforts through the Men on Mission (MoM) initiative to confront deep-seated social vulnerabilities affecting boys and young men across Guyana. “We have started this model in Guyana with a Men on Mission programme, because we recognise that we have some vulnerability… and there is still some amount of dropouts in [sic] school; at-risk communities; broken homes; persons growing up and living in trauma; lack of positive role models; heavy influence in some communities from gang leaders and drug lords, who find themselves becoming the role models for those communities; stigma and barriers that are attributed to certain communities,” he said. Read more here
INTERNATIONAL
Ukraine faces missile shortage due to Middle East war, says Zelensky
Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will face a deficit of missiles it is using to fight Russia due to the war in the Middle East. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Ukrainian president said Russia's Vladimir Putin wanted a "long war" between the US, Israel and Iran because it would weaken Kyiv, with US resources being directed elsewhere. Zelensky also claimed that US President Donald Trump was not on "any side" in the war between Russia and Ukraine and did not want to "irritate" Putin. He urged Trump and Sir Keir Starmer to meet and find common ground, after the US president's repeated criticism of the UK prime minister. Read more here
18th March 2026