Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to cit­i­zens of T&T on the oc­ca­sion of In­di­an Ar­rival Day, de­scrib­ing it as a defin­ing mile­stone in the na­tion’s his­to­ry.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has called for greater re­spect, re­straint and uni­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, warn­ing against a cul­ture where “pub­lic speech of­ten moves faster than re­flec­tion.”

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has used her In­di­an Ar­rival Day mes­sage to ho­n­our the con­tri­bu­tions of In­do-Trinida­di­ans while rais­ing con­cerns of grow­ing threats to de­mo­c­ra­t­ic free­doms un­der the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Palmiste Gov­ern­ment School stu­dents cel­e­brat­ed In­di­an Ar­rival Day with a colour­ful fash­ion show­case and cul­tur­al pre­sen­ta­tion, de­spite con­tin­u­ing to op­er­ate from two tem­po­rary lo­ca­tions fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing fire that de­stroyed the school in De­cem­ber 2023.

In­vok­ing late for­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day’s push for lo­cal con­tent in State projects, a group of San Fer­nan­do con­trac­tors are de­mand­ing a “fair share” of work at the Al­lam­by Res­i­den­tial De­vel­op­ment as they con­tin­ue camp­ing out­side the site in search of jobs.

Thou­sands of com­muters across Trinidad are ex­pect­ed to face se­vere trans­porta­tion dis­rup­tions from Mon­day, af­ter maxi taxi op­er­a­tors con­firmed they will pro­ceed with a na­tion­wide with­draw­al of ser­vice fol­low­ing un­suc­cess­ful talks with Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les is al­leg­ing that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) fleet of 51 new elec­tric pa­trol ve­hi­cles was not pur­chased out­right by the State but in­stead leased through a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar arrange­ment with a com­pa­ny in­cor­po­rat­ed short­ly af­ter last year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

A Sea Lots man was beat­en and killed, af­ter he al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed a 13-year-old girl ear­li­er this week.

A faulty fan is sus­pect­ed to have caused a fire that left more than $100,000 in dam­age at Sarah’s Prepara­to­ry School in La Ro­maine on Thurs­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were on­go­ing yes­ter­day evening as po­lice sought to de­ter­mine the mo­tive be­hind the mur­der of Pro­man em­ploy­ee Ri­car­do Di­az.

Thurs­day’s court rul­ing on jet ski op­er­a­tions at Pi­geon Point and Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park has been de­scribed as bal­anced and fair, with both par­ties claim­ing suc­cess.

De­spite ex­ten­sive search­es com­pris­ing var­i­ous state agen­cies, the boy’s body has not been re­cov­ered.