Al­though the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act is now in force, the Op­po­si­tion re­mains un­con­vinced that the Gov­ern­ment has a plan to tack­le crime.

Neisha Ramkissoon, who spent six months in de­ten­tion with­out be­ing charged dur­ing last year’s State of Emer­gency (SoE), is con­cerned that the new Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion could cre­ate an­oth­er av­enue for peo­ple to be held with­out charge.

To­ba­go West MP Joel Samp­son has ac­cused the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) of be­ing “in ca­hoots” with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), point­ing to con­tro­ver­sial changes to To­ba­go’s elec­toral bound­aries over the years as the ba­sis for his claim.

The Op­po­si­tion has called for the ur­gent con­ven­ing of Par­lia­ment’s Stand­ing Or­ders Com­mit­tee, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of re­duc­ing Prime Min­is­ter’s Ques­tions to “a par­lia­men­tary cha­rade” by cur­tail­ing Op­po­si­tion ques­tions and block­ing sup­ple­men­tal ques­tions.

Af­ter weeks of pub­lic dis­agree­ment over par­ty pro­ce­dures, San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning says there is no love lost be­tween him and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les.

Two broth­ers who lost their fa­ther, their home and al­most a year of school­ing are back in the class­room this week, af­ter good Samar­i­tans and two gov­ern­ment min­is­ters gave them a chance to get their ed­u­ca­tion back on track.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­scrib­ing the Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, as a gift to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go as she ap­proach­es 40 years in pub­lic life, hav­ing be­gun her po­lit­i­cal ca­reer as an al­der­man.

Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions are months away, and the Gov­ern­ment’s bill to change lo­cal gov­ern­ment arrange­ments will not post­pone them, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen said yes­ter­day.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of ap­point­ing a com­mit­tee packed with Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal al­lies to rec­om­mend changes to mu­nic­i­pal bound­aries, de­scrib­ing its work as the prod­uct of a “poi­so­nous yel­low fruit.”

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo says the Gov­ern­ment’s move to in­tro­duce a floor-cross­ing pro­vi­sion for lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives was prompt­ed by the de­fec­tion of two mem­bers of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, whom he called “trai­tors.”

The woman po­lice con­sta­ble (WPC) who re­port­ed be­ing robbed of more than $127,000 in cash on Oc­to­ber 1 was charged on Tues­day with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

To­ba­go farm­ers say ex­treme heat is af­fect­ing their an­i­mals’ health. With drought-like con­di­tions ex­pect­ed soon, farm­ers at­tend­ed a cli­mate re­silience work­shop on Tues­day to learn how to iden­ti­fy heat stress and re­duce its ef­fects.