Trinidad and To­ba­go has raised con­cerns over the re-elec­tion of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, say­ing it was ex­clud­ed from the de­ci­sion-mak­ing process.

Sec­re­tary of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Dr Faith Breb­nor re­mains in the dark about the fu­ture of Cuban medics in To­ba­go.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice, David Ab­du­lah, has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the wors­en­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in Cu­ba, warn­ing that fu­el short­ages there have cre­at­ed con­di­tions that would bring this coun­try to a stand­still with­in weeks.

Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is press­ing the Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers on whether the Gov­ern­ment is shift­ing its po­si­tion on Cu­ba.

An ac­coun­tant, who de­fraud­ed the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of al­most $400,000, has re­ceived a $50,000 fine. 

A fam­i­ly has se­cured a le­gal vic­to­ry in its bat­tle against an in­sur­ance com­pa­ny over the ear­ly ter­mi­na­tion of a lease agree­ment.

A par­lia­men­tary probe in­to al­leged cor­rup­tion in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tor is in­ten­si­fy­ing, with the com­mit­tee seek­ing to sum­mon for­mer Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram to an­swer claims he breached the law, while al­so or­der­ing a search of Min­istry of Health servers for email ev­i­dence of pos­si­ble favouritism.

The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion says a surge of new de­clar­ants fol­low­ing the April 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion played a ma­jor role in a sharp drop in com­pli­ance among fil­ings of in­tegri­ty in pub­lic life forms.

The fu­ture of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most icon­ic hos­pi­tal­i­ty land­marks has be­come the lat­est flash­point in a bit­ter war of words be­tween the Op­po­si­tion and the sit­ting ad­min­is­tra­tion.

All sys­tems are in place for the smooth ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions, with 17,937 stu­dents set to sit the test to­day.

Shelly Dass has de­nied wrong­do­ing or po­lit­i­cal nepo­tism in her hir­ing as a con­sul­tant at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, and has ini­ti­at­ed pre-ac­tion le­gal steps over what she says are defam­a­to­ry claims pub­lished about her earn­ings.

The fu­ture of Caribbean re­gion­al­ism will be one of the hot top­ics to take cen­tre stage at this year’s Bo­cas Lit Fest. The event, which runs from April 30 to May 3, was launched yes­ter­day at NALIS in Port-of-Spain with pro­gramme di­rec­tor Nicholas Laugh­lin re­veal­ing this year’s theme: All To­geth­er Now.