For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte has ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) of wrong­ly clas­si­fy­ing the Break­fast Shed (Femmes de Chalet) in Port-of-Spain as an in­dus­tri­al cus­tomer, re­sult­ing in ten­ants be­ing over­billed for elec­tric­i­ty for years.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah has urged the Gov­ern­ment to place na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty at the cen­tre of the up­com­ing bud­get, ar­gu­ing that safe­ty and sta­bil­i­ty are es­sen­tial pil­lars for sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth, in­vestor con­fi­dence, and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram is now on med­ical leave, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe con­firmed yes­ter­day, though he de­clined to give de­tails on the du­ra­tion or tim­ing of the leave.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) and the Dif­fer­ent­ly-Abled Move­ment are urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to in­crease the dis­abil­i­ty grant when the 2026 Bud­get is pre­sent­ed on Mon­day.

The Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSPTT) has wel­comed the ad­di­tion of five new drugs to the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) but hopes to meet with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe to dis­cuss fur­ther im­prove­ments to the na­tion­al ini­tia­tive.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) has con­demned the de­ci­sion to re­align the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) un­der the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, warn­ing that the move threat­ens the bu­reau’s in­de­pen­dence and risks po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

El­der­ly res­i­dents of Palmiste say they are liv­ing in fear of a po­ten­tial tragedy, as 49 of the 60 fire hy­drants across their eight-block com­mu­ni­ty are out of or­der.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of hypocrisy over their crit­i­cism of the gov­ern­ment’s new OFAC li­cence for the Drag­on gas project, say­ing the coun­try is now on a “vi­able path­way” to pro­duc­tion.

The Drag­on Gas Agree­ment of­fers ben­e­fits for Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Unit­ed States, and Venezuela, ad­vanc­ing re­gion­al part­ner­ship, en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty, and eco­nom­ic growth, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­nied claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion spent over $120 mil­lion on Drag­on Gas project ne­go­ti­a­tions with noth­ing to show for it.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro vis­it­ed To­ba­go this morn­ing, on his first of­fi­cial trip since as­sum­ing of­fice, say­ing his main goal was to meet and mo­ti­vate of­fi­cers serv­ing on the is­land.

A Port of Spain man was ar­rest­ed on Thurs­day af­ter­noon af­ter re­turn­ing a stolen chain to its own­er.