BEI­JING, Chi­na—For­mer for­eign af­fairs min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne is urg­ing the gov­ern­ment to in­ten­si­fy diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions, while his­to­ri­an Dr Jerome Teelucks­ingh warns that World War III is no longer a mat­ter of if, but when.

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says she can­not say when the $1.3 bil­lion Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal will fi­nal­ly open to the pub­lic.

Two com­pa­nies led by the wife and daugh­ter of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings were award­ed $15.6 mil­lion in Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) con­tract ex­ten­sions just be­fore the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, HDC doc­u­ments show.

Chief Jus­tice,Ivor Archie, has ap­point­ed Ma­jor (Re­tired) Ar­den D. Williams to the Emer­gency Pow­ers Re­view Tri­bunal, re­plac­ing Kent Sam­lal.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Wen­dell Charles of Capildeo Lands, Si­ta Dri­ve, off Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, Pe­tit Val­ley.

Of­fi­cers of the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU) seized a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

A Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ee has been charged with fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB).

The Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), Dr Car­la Bar­nett has reaf­firmed the Com­mu­ni­ty’s com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing health as a cor­ner­stone of sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it has dis­rupt­ed a co­or­di­nat­ed plot to harm a law en­force­ment of­fi­cer at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC), fol­low­ing cred­i­ble in­tel­li­gence.

A Point Fortin man has been ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a re­port from a lo­cal teacher who was al­leged­ly threat­ened with the re­lease of a sex­u­al­ly ex­plic­it video.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued Ad­verse Weath­er Alert #2 – Yel­low Lev­el for the en­tire coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Pres­i­dent Dr. Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali fol­low­ing his re-elec­tion as Pres­i­dent of the Co­op­er­a­tive Re­pub­lic of Guyana, and to the Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Par­ty/Civic on their vic­to­ry in the Sep­tem­ber 1, 2025, gen­er­al elec­tions.