Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi has con­demned the ter­mi­na­tion of over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors as the start of what he de­scribed as a “reign of tyran­ny” un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led Gov­ern­ment.

The Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025 was passed by Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) votes in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MP Colm Im­bert yes­ter­day slammed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment’s tar­get­ing of for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young - and he de­clared the UNC a “gal­lop­ing dic­ta­tor­ship,” since the lat­est peo­ple be­ing fired by Gov­ern­ment were Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors yes­ter­day.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young (PNM PoS North MP) was ab­sent from Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day for de­bate on the con­tro­ver­sial Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025.

Op­po­si­tion MP for Arou­ca/Lopinot Mar­vin Gon­za­les has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­fusal to an­swer ur­gent ques­tions in Par­lia­ment re­lat­ing to the dis­missal of Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire and the ter­mi­na­tion of WASA’s ex­ec­u­tive team, call­ing it “a dark day for democ­ra­cy in Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has moved to al­low se­lect off-du­ty of­fi­cers to car­ry their firearms home. He un­veiled this yes­ter­day among new pol­i­cy de­ci­sions aimed at en­sur­ing the safe­ty of of­fi­cers and en­hanc­ing the op­er­a­tional ca­pac­i­ty of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

In re­sponse to calls from Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors for the T&T Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) to be main­tained, Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste is stick­ing to his po­si­tion that the agency will not im­prove rev­enue col­lec­tion.

The of­fi­ci­at­ing min­is­ter at the fu­ner­al of Diego Mar­tin mur­der vic­tim Sa­van­na Dy­er ap­pealed to young peo­ple to slow down and be wary of peo­ple who have noth­ing to con­tribute to their lives or well-be­ing.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge says the Gov­ern­ment may con­sid­er amend­ing ex­ist­ing leg­is­la­tion to sup­port the ef­fec­tive roll­out of the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (MI­LAT) and Mil­i­tary-Led Youth Pro­gramme of Ap­pren­tice­ship and Re­ori­en­ta­tion Train­ing (MY­PART) ini­tia­tives, par­tic­u­lar­ly for stu­dents re­quired to stay overnight at camps.

Au­top­sies on the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women found in a shal­low grave in cen­tral Trinidad on Wednes­day night, have list­ed the of­fi­cial cause of death as man­u­al stran­gu­la­tion and as­phyx­ia due to smoth­er­ing.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says they are still in the process of ver­i­fy­ing the T&T na­tion­al who has been de­tained in Venezuela in con­nec­tion with a threat to that coun­try’s na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Pride TT is call­ing for leg­isla­tive re­form to se­cure equal rights and pro­tec­tions for mem­bers of the LGBTQI+ com­mu­ni­ty. The or­gan­i­sa­tion held a peace­ful protest out­side Par­lia­ment at Wood­ford Square yes­ter­day to mark the start of its eighth an­nu­al Pride Month of Ac­tiv­i­ties.