The Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced the of­fi­cial vis­it of Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia Naren­dra Mo­di to Trinidad and To­ba­go from Ju­ly 3 to Ju­ly 4.

De­spite hav­ing a neu­ro­log­i­cal ill­ness that can lead to im­mo­bil­i­ty and death, pa­tients with Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis (MS) in Trinidad and To­ba­go are men­tal­ly stronger than their coun­ter­parts in oth­er coun­tries.

The Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank (CDB), says it has of­fi­cial­ly joined the Glob­al Al­liance Against Hunger and Pover­ty in a move to com­bat hunger and pover­ty glob­al­ly.

Ju­rors are set to start de­lib­er­at­ing Mon­day in Sean “Did­dy” Combs ’ sex traf­fick­ing case, weigh­ing charges that could put the hip-hop mogul in prison for life.

The Cus­toms Bor­der Con­trol Sys­tem (ASY­CU­DA) has been ren­dered tem­porar­i­ly un­avail­able due to wa­ter leaks at the Cus­toms House, Gov­ern­ment Cam­pus Plaza, in Port of Spain.

More than 21,000 school sus­pen­sions were record­ed be­tween 2022 and 2025, prompt­ing High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad to call for ur­gent re­form in how the na­tion ad­dress­es school vi­o­lence and stu­dent be­hav­iour.

For­mer Petrotrin re­fin­ery ex­pert Gow­tam Ma­haraj says he hopes at least one train at the shut­tered Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery can be restart­ed with­in a year, cre­at­ing more jobs and bol­ster­ing T&T’s for­eign ex­change re­serves.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says it is up to the Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor, not the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA). to de­ter­mine whether the To­ba­go Re­hion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) fol­lowed prop­er pro­ce­dure in ac­quir­ing new am­bu­lances.

Some med­ical doc­tors in T&T have been un­der­cut­ting phar­ma­cies by il­le­gal­ly sell­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal drugs di­rect­ly to pa­tients, in turn, putting pa­tients’ health at risk, a Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion has re­vealed.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) launched a scathing at­tack on the In­de­pen­dent Sen­ate bench yes­ter­day, not on­ly ques­tion­ing their in­de­pen­dence but in­fer­ring that the Pres­i­dent, who has close PNM ties, placed them there to thwart the gov­ern­ment.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors are push­ing back against the an­ti-gov­ern­ment la­bel at­trib­uted to them by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), with one sen­a­tor ask­ing that they re­frain from us­ing in­tim­i­da­tion to get their way.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has told fired CEPEP work­ers that the gov­ern­ment will put poli­cies in place to em­pow­er them be­yond cut­ting grass for the rest of their lives.