Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of at­tempt­ing to cre­ate a false nar­ra­tive about a “crashed econ­o­my” to put the pop­u­la­tion on ear­ly no­tice that it will not be de­liv­er­ing on its am­bi­tious elec­tion promis­es.

Both the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion ac­cused each oth­er of hav­ing the re­sources but not the po­lit­i­cal will to ad­dress press­ing is­sues fac­ing the na­tion.

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has con­firmed that the Em­bassy of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca has of­fi­cial­ly re­sumed pro­cess­ing stu­dent visa ap­pli­ca­tions for in­ter­na­tion­al stu­dents plan­ning to pur­sue aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes in the Unit­ed States.

As he ral­lied parish­ioners and the pub­lic to learn from the ob­ser­vance of Cor­pus Christi to serve oth­ers, Arch­bish­op of Port-of-Spain Charles Ja­son Gor­don al­so urged new­ly-ap­point­ed Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to work close­ly with his part­ners in and out of the TTPS.

The sis­ter of Al­lan­lane Ramkissoon, who died on June 18, 2023, af­ter suf­fer­ing se­vere burns in an ex­plo­sion at the Ni­Quan En­er­gy Trinidad Ltd (NETL) Gas-to-Liq­uids (GTL), be­lieves some­one should be held ac­count­able now that the re­port in­to his death is pub­lic.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 4.30 pm on Wednes­day, Gary Mo­han of Gol­con­da was at his busi­ness place, Chiney Wreck­ing Ser­vice at Cipero Road, Ste Madeleine, when a white Nis­san Ti­i­da drove by. The dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle slowed down and opened fire on Mo­han, who was stand­ing just out­side the busi­ness place.

Two el­der­ly women were at­tacked dur­ing vi­o­lent home in­va­sions this week—one chopped with a met­al weapon in St Joseph and an­oth­er tied up and robbed in Ch­agua­nas.

Pas­sen­ger traf­fic be­tween Trinidad and Venezuela via the Port of Ce­dros is on the de­cline, ac­cord­ing to trav­el agents and op­er­a­tors who ply the route. 

While it has caused a stir on so­cial me­dia, a video clip of sol­dier and ra­dio per­son­al­i­ty Nigel Joseph alias Tom­my Shmur­da is at least three years old, ac­cord­ing to a De­fence Force source.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo is en­cour­ag­ing pupils, start­ing sec­ondary school in Sep­tem­ber, to com­mu­ni­cate with their par­ents or oth­er trust­ed adults about their feel­ings and to choose their friends wise­ly.

A Chi­nese multi­na­tion­al con­tract­ing firm has been or­dered to pay over $700,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a lo­cal sub-con­trac­tor for un­paid fees re­lat­ed to a con­struc­tion project in 2016. 

A 32-year-old woman, who was charged along­side her fa­ther for mur­der­ing her moth­er four years af­ter her death was ruled to be sui­cide, has been freed.