Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John, is de­fend­ing Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion not to open the Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (POS­GH), while giv­ing the me­dia a tour of the 12-storey build­ing yes­ter­day.

A fam­i­ly liv­ing along Up­per Rich Plain Road, Diego Mar­tin, says they are now liv­ing in fear that an­oth­er round of heavy rain­fall could send their home crash­ing down the hill­side.

The ma­jor fraud case against for­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram, for al­leged­ly de­fraud­ing clients in re­la­tion to a cruise that did not ma­te­ri­alise, has col­lapsed due to pros­e­cu­tion de­lays.

The State is set to pay mil­lions of dol­lars in com­pen­sa­tion to sev­en teach­ers who were by­passed for pro­mo­tion de­spite hav­ing the re­quired qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

At­tor­ney for the fam­i­lies of the Paria div­ing tragedy, Prakash Ra­mad­har, says the land­mark judg­ment of the Privy Coun­cil on Tues­day could nul­li­fy charges brought un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act (OS­HA). He is call­ing for an­swers on who was re­spon­si­ble for not lay­ing charges with­in the re­quired six-month pe­ri­od.

Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day desk-thumped their con­grat­u­la­tions to T&T "Javelin King" Keshorn Wal­cott and track and field sprint­er Jereem "The Dream" Richards af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar praised their re­cent gold and sil­ver sport­ing achieve­ments.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the Low­er House of Par­lia­ment to­day that no of­fi­cial up­grades have been car­ried out at the Prime Min­is­ter’s res­i­dence.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath yes­ter­day di­rect­ed the clo­sure of the school, hours af­ter par­ents of Rousil­lac Hin­du School protest­ed over a rat in­fes­ta­tion.

For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs min­is­ter Sean Sobers says his min­istry has sub­mit­ted doc­u­ments to the Unit­ed King­dom in a con­tin­ued at­tempt to re­verse the cur­rent visa re­quire­ment for T&T na­tion­als. Speak­ing with re­porters out­side Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, Sobers said, “Es­sen­tial­ly, we have trashed out cer­tain things, cer­tain asks that they had of us as a coun­try… We’ve sent the rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion to them, and we are wait­ing on a re­sponse from them as it per­tains to that in­for­ma­tion that we’ve sent on to them”.

Caribbean Drag­ons will host its flag­ship event, IG­NITE 2025, from Oc­to­ber 12 to 15 with the sum­mit fo­cus­ing on en­tre­pre­neur­ship, in­vest­ment, and re­gion­al growth.

The Pri­vate Sec­tor Com­mis­sion and the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try have both wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s “Project Res­cue George­town”, which aims to clean up, beau­ti­fy and re­turn George­town to its past glo­ry of be­ing a Gar­den City.

The Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries has ad­vised that the sale of State Game Li­cences will be­gin on Sep­tem­ber 22, 2025.