Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture at UWI St Au­gus­tine, Pro­fes­sor Mark Wud­di­vi­ra, is call­ing on Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram to ag­gres­sive­ly pur­sue agri­cul­tur­al tourism as a vi­able eco­nom­ic dri­ver for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pres­i­dent of the Fa­thers As­so­ci­a­tion, Rhon­dell Fee­les, is call­ing for ex­tend­ed pa­ter­ni­ty leave, warn­ing that poli­cies geared on­ly to­ward women will con­tin­ue to ex­clude and mar­gin­alise fa­thers.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of elec­tri­cal re­pairs at the Sev­en Seas Wa­ter (SSW) owned Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant. 

May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says the per­sis­tent flood­ing chal­lenges plagu­ing the Bor­ough of Ch­agua­nas are the re­sult of years of in­fra­struc­tur­al ne­glect and can­not be re­solved overnight.

The Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) has re­leased a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry list­ing ar­eas across Trinidad and To­ba­go where flood­ing has been re­port­ed, as the na­tion re­mains un­der a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with key na­tion­al agen­cies, has is­sued a Riv­er Lev­el Ad­vi­so­ry as of 1:30 PM on Sat­ur­day, May 18, 2025.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG) has ac­ti­vat­ed a com­pre­hen­sive na­tion­al re­sponse to Ad­verse Weath­er Alert #2 – Yel­low Lev­el, which re­mains in ef­fect from 6:00 PM on Sat­ur­day, May 17, to 6:00 PM on Mon­day, May 19, 2025.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has asked mem­bers of his par­ty to get ready for the next THA elec­tion—even though no date has been an­nounced.

A 22-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing an armed con­fronta­tion ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing in Mal­ick, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to a re­port­ed shoot­ing in San Juan hours ear­li­er.

A dis­pute over un­paid en­trance fees at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go end­ed in vi­o­lence on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon, when a man was chopped dur­ing a con­fronta­tion.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment has is­sued a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry high­light­ing re­port­ed flood lo­ca­tions fol­low­ing re­cent rain­fall ac­tiv­i­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an­oth­er Yel­low Lev­el Alert warn­ing of an in­creased like­li­hood of ad­verse weath­er con­di­tions over the next 24 hours. A high (80%) chance of in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall of vary­ing in­ten­si­ties and iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms is fore­cast over Trinidad, par­tic­u­lar­ly af­fect­ing south­ern and cen­tral ar­eas.