Crys­tal Bevin Ashe is the new pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), de­feat­ing in­cum­bent Mar­tin Lum Kin in elec­tions held on Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 14, 2025.

Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai is in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. lead­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go del­e­ga­tion at the 2025 An­nu­al Meet­ings of the World Bank Group and the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund. The del­e­ga­tion is al­so at­tend­ing the An­nu­al Meet­ing of the In­ter-Gov­ern­men­tal Group of 24 on In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment (G-24), which runs from Oc­to­ber 13 to 18.

Raila Odin­ga, a for­mer prime min­is­ter of Kenya and peren­ni­al pres­i­den­tial can­di­date whose pop­ulist cam­paigns chal­lenged one-par­ty rule, rat­tled au­thor­i­ties and gave him out­sized in­flu­ence on po­lit­i­cal life in the East African coun­try, died Wednes­day of a heart at­tack while trav­el­ing in In­dia. He was 80.

A moth­er and her six-year-old daugh­ter were in­jured af­ter their car plunged about 200 feet down a precipice near the San Fer­nan­do Hill yes­ter­day.

Pres­i­dent of the Bar­keep­ers As­so­ci­a­tion Satesh Moonasar says the price in­crease in al­co­hol is yet to be de­ter­mined, as the as­so­ci­a­tion is still as­sess­ing the im­pact of the 100 per cent hike in ex­cise du­ties.

Head of Cor­po­rate and Reg­u­la­to­ry Af­fairs (CO­RA) Caribbean at the West In­di­an To­bac­co Co Ltd (Wit­co), Ger­von Abra­ham, has raised con­cerns over Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent ex­cise in­creas­es, warn­ing that lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers could be dis­ad­van­taged if im­port du­ties are not ad­just­ed ac­cord­ing­ly.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, Ar­rive Alive and mem­bers of the pub­lic are all sup­port­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s in­crease in fines for road traf­fic of­fences, say­ing it sends a strong mes­sage against ir­re­spon­si­ble and reck­less dri­ving.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo is urg­ing busi­ness­es to share re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, warn­ing that pass­ing on the bur­den of high­er tax­es to con­sumers could back­fire in an in­creas­ing­ly in­formed, price-sen­si­tive mar­ket.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas says she has al­ready writ­ten to the chief per­son­nel of­fi­cer (CPO) to be­gin wage talks and wants ne­go­ti­a­tions con­clud­ed be­fore Christ­mas so pub­lic ser­vants can have their mon­ey in their pock­ets for the hol­i­days.

Pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU), An­cel Ro­get, says the 2026 Bud­get is be­ing seen as a “res­cue mis­sion” for work­ers.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union (CGW­TU) is press­ing for dis­cus­sions on a cost-of-liv­ing ad­just­ment (CO­LA) for its mem­bers, high­light­ing con­cerns that work­ers could be left at a dis­ad­van­tage if oth­er unions rene­go­ti­ate for im­proved terms.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will re­ceive a $20 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion for the 2026 fis­cal year to pro­cure an ad­di­tion­al 3,120 Body Worn Cam­eras (BWC) for front­line of­fi­cers. A fa­cil­i­ty to sup­port na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions in the north­ern and east­ern cor­ri­dors is al­so be­ing de­vel­oped at Laven­tille.