The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go is re­ject­ing claims that pas­sen­ger traf­fic at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has fall­en sig­nif­i­cant­ly, point­ing to strong traf­fic dur­ing the Ju­ly/Au­gust va­ca­tion pe­ri­od.

Four stu­dents of North­east­ern Col­lege have pub­licly apol­o­gised for fight­ing on the very first day of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year last week.

For­mer de­tainees and their rel­a­tives say an apol­o­gy from the State would not be enough for what they en­dured while in de­ten­tion, with one for­mer de­tainee de­scrib­ing con­di­tions as fit on­ly for an­i­mals.

Peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) could have grounds to seek ad­di­tion­al le­gal re­course if they were held in in­hu­mane con­di­tions, says at­tor­ney Nyree Al­fon­so.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union yes­ter­day said the State of Emer­gency’s no-protest zones have tied its hands, pre­vent­ing it from demon­strat­ing in front of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $700,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a man from Co­corite, who was re­mand­ed for 18 months af­ter be­ing false­ly ac­cused of be­ing in pos­ses­sion of a bul­let proof vest to as­sist a gang. 

The US Em­bassy had to wait three months, be­tween May and Au­gust 2025, to get a san­i­tary de­ter­mi­na­tion to erect tem­po­rary liv­ing quar­ters for the work­force con­struct­ing its new fa­cil­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh yes­ter­day.

De­bate will be held in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day (Wednes­day) on the Gov­ern­ment's bill to re­move the re­quire­ment for State agen­cies to pub­lish an­nu­al pub­lic state­ments in a dai­ly news­pa­per and re­place it with a re­quire­ment for those state­ments to be pub­lished ei­ther in a news­pa­per or on a pub­licly ac­ces­si­ble web­site.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices have seized ap­prox­i­mate­ly $1 bil­lion worth of il­le­gal drugs since the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) came in­to of­fice last year.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's San Fer­nan­do East par­ty groups have so far com­plet­ed in­ter­nal elec­tions for 11 of the 30 groups, with the re­main­ing 19 ex­pect­ed to com­plete the ex­er­cise by Sep­tem­ber 25.

The Gov­ern­ment’s $1 re­duc­tion in the price of Su­per Gaso­line in the last bud­get has re­sult­ed in an ad­di­tion­al $318 mil­lion fu­el sub­sidy re­quire­ment fol­low­ing ris­ing glob­al fu­el prices.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John has called for greater re­spon­si­bil­i­ty from busi­ness­es and cit­i­zens in main­tain­ing Port-of-Spain, warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment can­not car­ry the bur­den of keep­ing the cap­i­tal clean and its drainage sys­tem func­tion­ing on its own.