The T&T De­fence Force (TTDF) con­tin­ues to en­gage in se­ries of tac­ti­cal readi­ness ex­er­cis­es as part of prepa­ra­tions for any po­ten­tial re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty threats aris­ing from the on­go­ing ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.

A for­mer For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter is call­ing for greater diplo­ma­cy as ten­sions rise be­tween Venezuela and Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sup­port for US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s an­ti-nar­cotics cam­paign in the Caribbean. 

Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art has de­fend­ed his de­ci­sion to raise alarm pub­licly about what he de­scribes as a wor­ry­ing nurs­ing short­age at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope, in­sist­ing the sit­u­a­tion has reached cri­sis lev­els and is af­fect­ing pa­tient care.

Con­cerned Mus­lims of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CMTT) has pur­chased ap­prox­i­mate­ly US$22,000 worth of re­lief sup­plies to as­sist com­mu­ni­ties in Ja­maica af­fect­ed in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Two weeks af­ter a memo­r­i­al ser­vice was held for one of two Trinida­di­an fish­er­men be­lieved to have been killed dur­ing a US airstrike in the Gulf of Paria, rel­a­tives of both men have now filed miss­ing per­sons’ re­ports with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

A San Juan fam­i­ly, whose house was de­stroyed by fire yes­ter­day, has joined the grow­ing list of per­sons blam­ing faulty and leak­ing gas tanks for their loss.

The com­mu­ni­ty of Sun Val­ley Ex­ten­sion at La Canoa Road in Low­er San­ta Cruz re­mained qui­et yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing on Sat­ur­day night which claimed the lives of two men.

The Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) South Cen­tral Zone is ap­peal­ing for sup­port to ex­pand its Ca­lyp­so Work­shop for young peo­ple, in an at­tempt to pre­serve one of the old­est cul­tur­al art forms in the coun­try.

At just 18, Vic­to­ria Aman­da De­onar­ine has al­ready gone deep­er than most ever will—both in wa­ter and in am­bi­tion.

The an­nounce­ment that the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be ex­tend­ed in­to 2026 has been well re­ceived by at least one se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert, who is now ap­peal­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to use the time to iden­ti­fy its goals for the next six months, while a sec­ond has as­cribed the SoE a “pass­ing grade.”

Act­ing Chief Fire Of­fi­cer Andy Hutchin­son says he is hop­ing Gov­ern­ment will ad­dress the re­source and equip­ment needs of the T&T Fire Ser­vice, as it is con­tin­u­ing to af­fect the morale of his fire­fight­ers.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has an­nounced that gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for sec­ondary school stu­dents will be dis­trib­uted by the end of No­vem­ber.