Pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Bed and Break­fast and Self-Cater­ing As­so­ci­a­tion, Kaye Trot­man, says book­ings for Oc­to­ber Car­ni­val are al­ready near full ca­pac­i­ty, but the is­land con­tin­ues to face peren­ni­al chal­lenges with last-minute plan­ning and lim­it­ed air and sea trans­port.

For­mer chief sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Act makes it il­le­gal for one di­vi­sion to have two sec­re­taries, as con­fu­sion mounts over who is re­al­ly in charge of tourism on the is­land.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day met with Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res, a dis­cus­sion she de­scribed as “very, very good” for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sup­port­ed the Counter-Pro­lif­er­a­tion Fi­nanc­ing Bill, 2025, in the Sen­ate on Fri­day night.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is rub­bish­ing so­cial me­dia al­le­ga­tions that the out­fit she wore to speak at the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly cost tax­pay­ers around $30,000. Per­sad-Bisses­sar said her cloth­ing was pur­chased with the mon­ey she earned and even men­tioned that it was on sale.

Be­lize Prime Min­is­ter John Briceño has blamed the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty for fail­ing to ad­dress the world’s prob­lems, stat­ing that if the Unit­ed Na­tions has “fall­en short of its promise, it is be­cause too of­ten its mem­bers — in­clud­ing the most pow­er­ful among us — have failed to act”.  

As new ten­sions rise be­tween Rus­sia and NA­TO pow­ers, Moscow’s top diplo­mat in­sist­ed to world lead­ers Sat­ur­day that his na­tion doesn’t in­tend to at­tack Eu­rope but will mount a “de­ci­sive re­sponse” to any ag­gres­sion.

For­mer Chief Sec­re­tary An­cil Den­nis says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Act makes it il­le­gal for one Di­vi­sion to have two Sec­re­taries, as con­fu­sion grows over who is in charge of Tourism.

Of­fi­cers of the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU) seized an il­le­gal firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion be­tween 7:00 p.m. on Thurs­day and 3:00 a.m. on Fri­day.

Two Mal­abar men were stabbed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion over a stolen phone at a bar on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said the vic­tim went to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion just af­ter 8 am and re­port­ed that ban­dits had stolen his car on First Street, Five Rivers.

De­spite calls from re­gion­al lead­ers for peace in the re­gion, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly and ve­he­ment­ly de­clared that this coun­try, along with the Unit­ed States, will fight “fire with fire” to push back against drugs and gang war­fare in the Caribbean re­gion.