The costs for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ten-plus-mem­ber del­e­ga­tion, which par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly 2025 in the Unit­ed States last Sep­tem­ber, in­volved a to­tal air­fare cost of $147,000 and a to­tal non-ac­count­able al­lowance cost of $914,970 for the en­tire del­e­ga­tion.

To­ba­go has now gone more than three weeks with­out a ded­i­cat­ed car­go ser­vice, and busi­ness lead­ers warn the is­land is on the brink of se­ri­ous eco­nom­ic dam­age as short­ages deep­en and ma­jor events are can­celled.

The Na­tion­al Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nals will be held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this year af­ter dam­age to the new­ly-leased MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny fer­ry forced or­gan­is­ers to aban­don plans to stage the event in To­ba­go.

The coun­try’s high­est ap­pel­late court has pro­vid­ed guid­ance on the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the statu­to­ry cri­te­ria for ap­point­ing the chair­man of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of T&T (NIBTT).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­versed its re­quest for a busi­ness­woman from south Trinidad to dis­close who was us­ing her ve­hi­cle at the time it was al­leged­ly in­volved in a shoot­ing.

An au­top­sy has con­firmed that Bar­rack­pore res­i­dent Mer­ril Sabessar was beat­en and stran­gled, but in­ves­ti­ga­tors say they have not yet iden­ti­fied a sus­pect in her killing.

A Glen­coe dis­trib­u­tor of dis­pos­able vapes was robbed of more than $170,000 in mer­chan­dise, af­ter ban­dits broke in­to his rent­ed ware­house in San Juan on Sun­day.

Two peo­ple are in po­lice cus­tody af­ter be­ing caught with co­caine in San Fer­nan­do and Mon Re­pos on Mon­day, dur­ing pa­trols and a rov­ing road­block ex­er­cise.

The San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee has sus­pend­ed the com­pet­i­tive com­po­nent of San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val 2026, cit­ing re­duced fund­ing for the up­com­ing sea­son.

The first char­ter flight from Ghana could ar­rive in T&T in April if Trade, In­dus­try, and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj has his way. Speak­ing with re­porters on Sun­day at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, Ma­haraj ex­plained that a di­rect T&T-Ghana con­nec­tion would “open new mar­kets, both for trade and in­vest­ment, but al­so, more im­por­tant­ly, for tourism”. 

The Min­istry of Health has is­sued an alert on We­govy tablets fol­low­ing re­ports of cir­cu­la­tion of a fal­si­fied prod­uct. The alert was is­sued on Feb­ru­ary 3, 2026, through the Chem­istry, Food and Drugs Di­vi­sion.

The Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nals will be held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this year af­ter dam­age to the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny forced or­gan­is­ers to aban­don plans to stage the event in To­ba­go.