Un­der­scor­ing the im­por­tance of arts and cul­ture, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said they play a vi­tal role in shap­ing young peo­ple in­to re­spon­si­ble and car­ing cit­i­zens.

Warn­ings over il­le­gal quar­ry op­er­a­tions and a crit­i­cal short­fall in ag­gre­gate sup­ply are in­ten­si­fy­ing ten­sions in the min­er­als sec­tor, as quar­ry op­er­a­tors ac­cuse Gov­ern­ment of main­tain­ing the “sta­tus quo” through its lat­est round of hold-over li­cences.

Iran on Tues­day de­nounced the most re­cent U.S. strikes as a sign of “bad faith and un­re­li­a­bil­i­ty” as ne­go­ti­a­tions pressed on to­ward a pos­si­ble deal to end the war, and the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic be­gan restor­ing in­ter­net ac­cess af­ter one of the longest na­tion­wide shut­downs ever.

The head of Puer­to Ri­co ’s key eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment agency an­nounced his res­ig­na­tion on Tues­day as he crit­i­cized the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry’s ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jen­nif­fer González, ac­cus­ing it of in­ter­fer­ing in the de­part­ment’s work.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has moved to shut down a planned protest ex­pect­ed to take place on Wednes­day in sup­port of Ka­ia Sealy out­side the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), say­ing no per­mis­sion has been re­quest­ed or grant­ed for the event.

In a ma­jor push for deep­er eco­nom­ic ties and stronger an­ti-mon­ey laun­der­ing frame­works across the re­gion, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie SC met with Cay­man Is­lands Pre­mier An­dré Ebanks on Tues­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s agri­cul­tur­al di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion dri­ve has tak­en a ma­jor step for­ward with the suc­cess­ful har­vest of black eye beans un­der the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries’ pi­lot pro­gramme.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has emerged as a re­gion­al leader in en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, achiev­ing a 78 per cent phase-out of Hy­drochlo­ro­flu­o­ro­car­bons (HCFCs) as of 2025.

The Gov­ern­ment has met with the Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go in a high-lev­el en­gage­ment aimed at strength­en­ing di­a­logue on eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, fi­nan­cial sec­tor sta­bil­i­ty and pol­i­cy co­or­di­na­tion with the bank­ing in­dus­try.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is again call­ing for stronger pow­ers for the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) fol­low­ing the po­lice shoot­ing in­volv­ing Ka­ia Sealy and Joshua Sama­roo.

The Greater Ari­ma Cham­ber of Com­merce has wel­comed the open­ing of the new Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment at the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, de­scrib­ing it as a long-await­ed step for­ward for health­care de­liv­ery in east Trinidad.

Staff of Sagi­cor, their fam­i­lies and en­vi­ron­men­tal part­ner Eco Ti­tans Com­mu­ni­ty plant­ed 185 trees in Ch­aguara­mas on Sat­ur­day as part of the com­pa­ny’s com­mem­o­ra­tive 185 Trees ini­tia­tive.