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.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has ac­knowl­edged the con­tri­bu­tion of West In­dies crick­et leg­ends Sir Vi­vian Richards, Sir Richie Richard­son and Bri­an Lara dur­ing the re­cent “Mis­sion In­dia” Cor­po­rate En­gage­ment Tour.

Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment have urged the Unit­ed States Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Con­gress to im­me­di­ate­ly re­new the Hemi­spher­ic Op­por­tu­ni­ty through Part­ner­ship En­hance­ment for Hait­ian Pros­per­i­ty (HOPE) and the Haiti Eco­nom­ic Lift Pro­gram (HELP) Acts.

U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance on Tues­day called progress in Gaza’s frag­ile cease­fire bet­ter than an­tic­i­pat­ed but ac­knowl­edged dur­ing an Is­rael vis­it the chal­lenges that re­main, from dis­arm­ing Hamas to re­build­ing a land dev­as­tat­ed by two years of war.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has ac­knowl­edged Nu­trien Ltd.’s an­nounce­ment of a con­trolled shut­down of its ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions at the Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty, ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 23, 2025.

The Min­istry of Health has is­sued a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry fol­low­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al alert about con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed cough syrups linked to mul­ti­ple child fa­tal­i­ties.

Head coach An­gus Eve has re­signed from all coach­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ties with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­nior Women’s Na­tion­al Team.

The Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion has ex­pressed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of Loren­zo Lawrence Hus­bands, whose de­com­pos­ing body was found on its Ken Val­ley Dri­ve, West­vale com­pound on Sun­day, along with an en­ve­lope con­tain­ing four hun­dred dol­lars. The Cor­po­ra­tion con­firmed it is co­op­er­at­ing ful­ly with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

Nu­trien Lim­it­ed has an­nounced a con­trolled shut­down of its Trinidad Ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions at Point Lisas, ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 23. The com­pa­ny says the move fol­lows port ac­cess re­stric­tions im­posed by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion and an un­re­li­able nat­ur­al gas sup­ply that has weak­ened the plant’s fi­nan­cial per­for­mance. Nu­trien says it will con­tin­ue to en­gage with stake­hold­ers and ex­plore its op­tions for the fu­ture of its Trinidad op­er­a­tions.