Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, ac­cus­ing him of fail­ing to act in the best in­ter­est of cit­i­zens via a pro­pos­al to in­tro­duce un­sub­sidised do­mes­tic air­fares.

Four In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors are back­ing Gov­ern­ment’s con­sid­er­a­tion to in­tro­duce un­sub­sidised flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge, a move that could see fares for some flights dou­ble.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day says cit­i­zens are fac­ing fur­ther fi­nan­cial strain as Gov­ern­ment weighs a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in do­mes­tic air­fares.

Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers have ex­pressed con­cern over an al­leged Cab­i­net note in­volv­ing the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), say­ing they were not prop­er­ly con­sult­ed on a key move af­fect­ing the man­age­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val.

The first year of a gov­ern­ment’s term is wide­ly con­sid­ered its “hon­ey­moon pe­ri­od,” mak­ing the leg­isla­tive agen­da es­tab­lished dur­ing this time a crit­i­cal de­ter­mi­nant of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s long-term vi­a­bil­i­ty and cred­i­bil­i­ty.

The Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, will re­vise and in­crease sev­er­ance ben­e­fits payable to work­ers, pro­tect work­ers in groups few­er than five, in­tro­duce tem­po­rary lay­offs and pri­ori­tise re­hir­ing of re­trenched work­ers, says Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste.

Al­most eight years af­ter five men were sum­mar­i­ly ex­e­cut­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers near their Laven­tille homes, the State has been or­dered to pay their fam­i­lies over $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to two men, who were ac­cused of hav­ing sex in a car on so­cial me­dia af­ter they were ar­rest­ed for breach­ing a cur­few dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is send­ing his en­voys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kush­n­er to Pak­istan to meet with Iran’s for­eign min­is­ter, the White House said Fri­day, as of­fi­cials in the South Asian na­tion pushed to re­vive cease­fire talks be­tween the U.S. and Iran.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says two ad­di­tion­al men will be charged in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Head­quar­ters.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­fend­ed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) record in To­ba­go, high­light­ing what he de­scribed as sus­tained de­vel­op­ment and leg­isla­tive gains dur­ing the par­ty’s time in of­fice.

Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) Di­rec­tor David West says the au­thor­i­ty suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its role in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the 2018 fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of five men in Laven­tille, fol­low­ing a High Court rul­ing that or­dered the State to pay their fam­i­lies more than $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.