The tourism po­ten­tial of Ram­leela and Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions in cen­tral Trinidad will be ex­plored in 2026, says Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed.

Ac­tivists against the ir­re­spon­si­ble use of fire­works say the noise lev­els this Di­vali were the worst they have ex­pe­ri­enced in years and are now ques­tion­ing whether they placed their trust in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion too soon.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed deep grat­i­tude on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go to Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie, who an­nounced ear­li­er to­day that he is step­ping down to­mor­row af­ter near­ly 18 years in of­fice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says if Cari­com wants to work with this coun­try, then Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty na­tions should work to­geth­er to ad­dress the grow­ing num­ber of Venezue­lan mi­grants in the re­gion and to press Cara­cas to take back its cit­i­zens cur­rent­ly de­tained in T&T.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the stance tak­en by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, that she does not care about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of not be­ing sup­port­ed by her Cari­com part­ners for a seat at the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil, is un­for­tu­nate.

Fol­low­ing a High Court or­der, the State has dis­closed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly $16.3 mil­lion was paid by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) and Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny (Paria) to at­tor­neys for their work dur­ing the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry (CoE) in­to the Feb­ru­ary 2022 Paria Div­ing Tragedy, which claimed four lives and left one sur­vivor.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle has de­nied any con­flict of in­ter­est in con­tracts award­ed to a com­pa­ny as­so­ci­at­ed with him and two rel­a­tives, say­ing the is­sue is be­ing used as a po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion.

The broth­er of miss­ing Coast Guard sailor Kieron Si­mon is urg­ing the State to seek as­sis­tance from the Unit­ed States, which cur­rent­ly has a mil­i­tary pres­ence in the South­ern Caribbean, to help re­trieve his broth­er’s body.

A deaf stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) is call­ing on the in­sti­tu­tion to ho­n­our its re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­vide equal ac­cess and sup­port for stu­dents with dis­abil­i­ties.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has dis­missed claims by Op­po­si­tion PNM mem­bers that re­duc­tions in over­time al­lo­ca­tions for dai­ly-rat­ed work­ers and oth­er cuts in fund­ing at the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion will crip­ple op­er­a­tions dur­ing peak pe­ri­ods such as Christ­mas and Car­ni­val.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go has ac­knowl­edged the an­nounce­ment by Nu­trien Ltd. of a con­trolled shut­down of its op­er­a­tions at Point Lisas. The Cham­ber not­ed that Nu­trien is a ma­jor in­vestor and ex­porter of am­mo­nia, and its pres­ence re­mains im­por­tant to the strength of the down­stream en­er­gy sec­tor.

Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie will demit of­fice to­mor­row af­ter more than 17 years at the helm of the Ju­di­cia­ry, mak­ing him the coun­try’s longest-serv­ing Chief Jus­tice.