Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been in­vit­ed to Wash­ing­ton, DC, to speak with Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­scribed Stan­dard & Poor’s re­vi­sion of the coun­try’s out­look from sta­ble to neg­a­tive as an in­her­i­tance from the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion.

​Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley has called on the Unit­ed Na­tions to de­sist from treat­ing some coun­tries like “chil­dren” and to re­form its Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil to in­clude per­ma­nent seats for small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) and African na­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Gov­ern­ment is for­mu­lat­ing some pro­pos­als to strength­en the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CATT), as she lament­ed the mur­der of 12-year-old Mari­ah Seenath.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro marked 100 days in of­fice yes­ter­day with a promise to con­tin­ue his cur­rent streak of out­pac­ing crime.

A $24.9 mil­lion con­tract award­ed in 2024 for 3,000 body cam­eras for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has been ter­mi­nat­ed in or­der to save mon­ey and as of June, on­ly 17. 9 per cent of po­lice of­fi­cers used body cams.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was among many who yes­ter­day con­grat­u­lat­ed CNC3 as it cel­e­brat­ed its 20th an­niver­sary.CNC3 is part of Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed.

Thou­sands of vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens, in­clud­ing se­nior pen­sion­ers and re­cip­i­ents of Food Sup­port and Dis­abil­i­ty As­sis­tance, will face a de­lay in re­ceiv­ing their month­ly so­cial wel­fare cheques for Oc­to­ber, due to what of­fi­cials are call­ing “un­fore­seen tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties” with the Gov­ern­ment’s cheque-print­ing process.

Days af­ter dai­ly-paid work­ers stormed the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion de­mand­ing their wages, a protest by month­ly-paid staff over sim­i­lar con­cerns was nar­row­ly avert­ed yes­ter­day.

The to­tal sum of prop­er­ty tax col­lect­ed as of May 2025 was $135.5 mil­lion, with funds dis­trib­uted to re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions, the largest pay­ment of $23.2 mil­lion go­ing to the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion.

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) is ac­cus­ing the CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed and the Gov­ern­ment of dis­guis­ing an em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship to de­ny 11,500 work­ers their law­ful rights.

Con­fu­sion over who holds the tourism port­fo­lio sparked a heat­ed 18-minute ex­change in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s ple­nary sit­ting on Thurs­day evening.