While the in­au­gur­al cul­tur­al event for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions was wide­ly viewed as a suc­cess, con­cerns emerged over the post-event clean-up at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain, when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the site yes­ter­day.

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) says it is mov­ing to re­form its pa­tient es­cort and hos­pi­tal at­ten­dant ser­vices fol­low­ing an in­ter­nal re­view that iden­ti­fied se­ri­ous con­cerns over re­cruit­ment, at­ten­dance, dis­ci­pline and man­age­ment over­sight.

The Bar­roso fam­i­ly rose at dawn and hitched a cart to a bor­rowed horse to take their daugh­ters to school on Tues­day, the first day of class­es for many stu­dents across Cu­ba.

Pay­ments un­der the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s 2026 School Sup­plies and Book Grant Ini­tia­tive are set to be­gin from Wednes­day.

A man was ar­rest­ed in Fyz­abad af­ter po­lice found 13.7 grammes of co­caine in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on In­de­pen­dence Day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 23-year-old Ja’el Zamore of Gas­par­il­lo, who has been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Two men have been ar­rest­ed and charged in re­la­tion to a dou­ble mur­der in Ari­ma ear­li­er this month, the mo­tive for which, po­lice said, was an ar­gu­ment that be­gan be­tween one of the sus­pects and the vic­tims.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has launched To­ba­go ID, a dig­i­tal plat­form al­low­ing res­i­dents to ac­cess and track ser­vices of­fered by the THA’s di­vi­sions, de­part­ments and com­pa­nies on­line.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared that she is stand­ing firm­ly be­hind Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, prais­ing him and the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies for keep­ing their promise to en­sure yes­ter­day’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions were “awe­some.”

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has as­sured Trinida­di­ans that they have noth­ing to fear over To­ba­go’s quest for greater au­ton­o­my.

To­bag­o­ni­ans lined the Claude Noel High­way near Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day as pa­tri­o­tism and pride were on full dis­play in the an­nu­al In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade.

The weath­er put its best foot for­ward for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 64th an­niver­sary of in­de­pen­dence, and the se­cu­ri­ty forces did the same, as mem­bers of the pub­lic cel­e­brat­ed the re­turn of the “Road March”—the pa­rade of uni­formed of­fi­cers from the launch of the cel­e­bra­tions at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah through Wood­brook to the St James con­clu­sion point.