Days af­ter TTUTA raised con­cern about an ap­par­ent in­ter­rup­tion in free coun­selling for teach­ers, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has made it clear that no user fees have been in­tro­duced for its Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAP).

Fla­va Vil­lage of­fi­cial­ly opened at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Thurs­day, in­tro­duc­ing a new cu­rat­ed culi­nary and cul­tur­al space aimed at ex­pand­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for ven­dors while en­hanc­ing the Car­ni­val ex­pe­ri­ence.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has sought to clar­i­fy the sta­tus of its Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme, as­sur­ing em­ploy­ees that steps are be­ing tak­en to main­tain ac­cess to psy­cho-so­cial sup­port ser­vices.

Po­lice seized and de­stroyed more than $7 mil­lion worth of cannabis dur­ing a se­ries of an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed across sev­er­al di­vi­sions on Wednes­day and Thurs­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has be­gun im­ple­ment­ing mea­sures to man­age the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­ply, fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of the start of the 2026 Dry Sea­son by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed says it is con­tin­u­ing to pro­vide co­or­di­na­tion sup­port to Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed as sal­vage and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tions for Rig 110 con­tin­ue.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is meet­ing with oil ex­ec­u­tives at the White House on Fri­day in hopes of se­cur­ing $100 bil­lion in in­vest­ments to re­vive Venezuela’s abil­i­ty to ful­ly tap in­to its ex­pan­sive re­serves of pe­tro­le­um — a plan that rides on their com­fort in mak­ing com­mit­ments in a coun­try plagued by in­sta­bil­i­ty, in­fla­tion and un­cer­tain­ty.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has pledged to push back against any heavy-hand­ed en­force­ment by li­cens­ing of­fi­cers, warn­ing that To­bag­o­ni­ans must not be un­fair­ly tar­get­ed.

Der­rick “Stones” Tardieu and Clara­belle Tardieu held each oth­er and wept yes­ter­day, as they were re­unit­ed af­ter one month apart fol­low­ing their trau­mat­ic kid­nap­ping in ear­ly De­cem­ber.

To­ba­go po­lice say they have re­ceived no re­ports of bribery, in­tim­i­da­tion or vot­er ma­nip­u­la­tion ahead of Mon­day’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.

Eli­jah Williams, 33, of Cizan Trace, Blue Basin Road, was said to have been stand­ing on a river­bank north of his house when two gun­men emerged from the wa­ter and be­gan shoot­ing at him.

Rel­a­tives of 23-year-old Ronald Ram­lo­gan have con­firmed that his de­com­pos­ing body was found in the Heights of Gua­napo on Wednes­day.