Dis­charged from hos­pi­tal on­ly yes­ter­day, the moth­er of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne will be close­ly mon­i­tored to­day as she bids a fi­nal farewell to her child, rel­a­tives said.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for greater care and pro­tec­tion for the na­tion’s el­der­ly, say­ing se­nior cit­i­zens de­serve to spend their lat­er years in dig­ni­ty and peace, not fear.

To­ba­go ven­dors are com­plain­ing about be­ing priced out of do­ing busi­ness at the new­ly con­struct­ed ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal.

The pri­vate air­craft that went miss­ing on Fri­day, af­ter de­part­ing St Vin­cent en route to To­ba­go, has been found.

The fol­low­ing is the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2026 Sup­ple­men­tary Ap­pro­pri­a­tion and Mid-Year Re­view by The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, MP House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of a D'Abadie man who was re­port­ed­ly killed fol­low­ing a do­mes­tic dis­pute on Sun­day night.

The body of an Arou­ca man was found with gun­shot wounds in Pig Farm Road, Carlsen Field yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The Unit­ed States and Iran reached an ini­tial agree­ment Mon­day that would ex­tend their shaky cease­fire and lead to the re­open­ing of the Strait of Hor­muz, but sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges re­main to end­ing the war, in­clud­ing whether Is­rael will con­tin­ue its of­fen­sive in Lebanon.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 16-year-old Daniel­la Ma­haraj, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has as­sured nurs­es, teach­ers and oth­er pub­lic sec­tor work­ers still await­ing the con­clu­sion of salary ne­go­ti­a­tions that fi­nan­cial re­lief is on the way. How­ev­er, the nec­es­sary mon­e­tary al­lo­ca­tion will be made in the 2026/2027 bud­get pack­age.

For­mer UNC MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne has is­sued a strong con­dem­na­tion of the Gov­ern­ment and her for­mer par­ty, warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go is be­ing gov­erned by “ab­sent lead­er­ship” sup­port­ed by “syco­phan­tic un­der­lings” and urg­ing cit­i­zens not to be afraid to chal­lenge au­thor­i­ty when they be­lieve some­thing is wrong.

Par­lia­ment staff are deny­ing al­le­ga­tions of bias, af­ter claims by Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath that mi­cro­phones used by Gov­ern­ment MPs were de­lib­er­ate­ly mut­ed dur­ing par­lia­men­tary sit­tings.