A 21-year-old se­cu­ri­ty guard from east Port-of-Spain has been re­mand­ed af­ter mak­ing his first court ap­pear­ance for the mur­der of Sa­van­na Dy­er.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has made it clear it will not ac­cept any­thing less than 5.9 per cent of the na­tion­al bud­get as its al­lo­ca­tion for the fis­cal year 2025/2026.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader and head of the One PNM slate, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, says her team’s sweep­ing vic­to­ry in the in­ter­nal elec­tion on Sun­day sig­nals a re­newed man­date for uni­ty and re­form.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les is the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) new chair­man fol­low­ing Sun­day’s in­ter­nal elec­tion, which was won by the One PNM slate led by the par­ty’s first fe­male po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les.

Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al Adri­an Sookhan was prepar­ing to meet some trainees where he works in Do­ha, Qatar, around 8 pm yes­ter­day, when he heard three loud bangs.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is pro­ject­ing a rapid “ex­plo­sion” of high­er oil prices due to the Is­rael/Iran/US con­flict.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle is ac­cus­ing Gov­ern­ment of hypocrisy af­ter Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein claimed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) spent $1 bil­lion on le­gal briefs from the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice dur­ing its nine years in of­fice.

In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors are re­ject­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to give pow­er to a Min­is­ter of Health to re­view, an­nul and over­turn de­ci­sions of the Board of Man­age­ment of the Chil­dren’s Life Fund Au­thor­i­ty.

While the Gov­ern­ment crit­i­cised the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion for fail­ing to im­prove the Chil­dren’s Life Fund Au­thor­i­ty (CLFA), Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne said many of the 80 re­ject­ed ap­pli­ca­tions were due to bleak prog­noses.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is de­vel­op­ing a school safe­ty au­dit to iden­ti­fy “red-flag in­sti­tu­tions” and im­ple­ment deeply tai­lored in­ter­ven­tions to deal with stu­dent in­dis­ci­pline, af­ter 21,661 sec­ondary school stu­dents were sus­pend­ed in the pe­ri­od 2022–2025.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day hit back at his pre­de­ces­sor and MP for Lopinot/Arou­ca Mar­vin Gon­za­les for call­ing him “duncey”, urg­ing young­sters not to give up if they are be­ing mocked for strug­gling with some­thing new.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Philip Watts says he sub­mit­ted a file to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie for ad­vice for what he de­scribed as wan­ton wastage at the Youth Min­istry led by his pre­de­ces­sor.