The Blue Wave Har­mo­ny has been cleared to re­turn to in­ter-is­land ser­vice, the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) con­firmed yes­ter­day.

The Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) is ac­cus­ing Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) of stalling ne­go­ti­a­tions on two col­lec­tive agree­ments, near­ly two years af­ter pro­pos­als were sub­mit­ted.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA), Idi Stu­art, has giv­en Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo un­til to­mor­row to clar­i­fy when Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers will re­ceive their long-await­ed salary in­creas­es.

As demon­stra­tions con­tin­ue over the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing that killed Joshua Sama­roo and in­jured his com­mon-law wife, Ka­ia Sealy, sev­er­al pro­test­ers have ex­pressed frus­tra­tion over what they de­scribe as a lack of pub­lic en­gage­ment.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing ac­tivist Umar Ab­dul­lah have threat­ened to take le­gal ac­tion against the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) if it fails to re­spond with­in 14 days, to is­sues aris­ing from its in­ac­tion on dis­ci­pli­nary pro­ceed­ings against Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro for wear­ing the Pun­ish­er em­blem on his uni­form.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the reg­is­tra­tion and op­er­a­tions of Sarah’s Prepara­to­ry School in La Ro­maine af­ter 20 res­i­dents—many of them el­der­ly—signed a pe­ti­tion com­plain­ing of ex­ces­sive noise and traf­fic in their qui­et sea­side com­mu­ni­ty.

Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) scored 41 out of 100 in the 2025 Cor­rup­tion Per­cep­tions In­dex (CPI), plac­ing 81st out of 182 coun­tries.

Let­ters of of­fer sent to sev­er­al ap­pli­cants for the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) Cau­ra hous­ing units have re­port­ed­ly been void­ed, de­spite re­cip­i­ents hav­ing what Op­po­si­tion PNM Sen­a­tor Vish­nu Dhan­paul de­scribed as “le­git­i­mate ex­pec­ta­tions” that the of­fers would be ho­n­oured.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killing of a Curepe man yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) has ad­vised that in­ter­na­tion­al clas­si­fi­ca­tion sur­vey­ors, com­mon­ly re­ferred to as “class”, have cleared the ves­sel Blue Wave Har­mo­ny and it is re­turn­ing to in­ter-is­land op­er­a­tions to­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is call­ing on mas­quer­aders to re­frain from do­ing any­thing to em­bar­rass or hu­mil­i­ate them­selves or their loved ones while en­joy­ing the Car­ni­val rev­el­ry. Her com­ment came amidst calls by Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don for the Gov­ern­ment to reg­u­late the fes­tiv­i­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has lashed out at Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MPs who com­plained about the dis­rup­tion caused by the re­cent “Stink and Dut­ty” fete, ac­cus­ing them of po­lit­i­cal hypocrisy.