In a state­ment on Face­book on Thurs­day, the NTA said, “This de­ci­sion, though deeply sig­nif­i­cant, was made with thought­ful re­flec­tion and in the spir­it of ac­count­abil­i­ty and in­tegri­ty that has al­ways guid­ed the NTA’s lead­er­ship.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she in­tends to con­duct State busi­ness from mul­ti­ple lo­ca­tions, in­clud­ing her of­fi­cial res­i­dences at St Ann’s in Port of Spain and Blenheim in To­ba­go, as well as from sites in Cen­tral and South Trinidad and her pri­vate home.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­spond­ed to al­le­ga­tions of the Prime Min­is­ter's Res­i­dence be­ing un­fit for pur­pose by post­ing a video show­ing the res­i­dence when he ex­it­ed of­fice.

New ap­pli­cants for cred­it cards at Re­pub­lic Bank will have a far low­er US-Dol­lar lim­it than pre­vi­ous cred­it card hold­ers.

Car­di­nal Robert Pre­vost, an Amer­i­can mis­sion­ary who spent his ca­reer min­is­ter­ing in Pe­ru and led the Vat­i­can’s pow­er­ful of­fice of bish­ops, was elect­ed the first Amer­i­can pope in the 2,000-year his­to­ry of the Catholic Church. Pre­vost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.

Me­dia Am­bas­sador for the Po­lice Ser­vice, ASP Owie Rus­sell, says the TTPS wel­comes the ap­point­ment of Roger Alexan­der as the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty.

White smoke is pour­ing out of the Sis­tine Chapel chim­ney, sig­nalling that a pope has been elect­ed to lead the Catholic Church.

The Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism has wel­comed Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, a day af­ter he was sworn in as the new Min­is­ter.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) says it is hope­ful that un­der the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion, the de­vel­op­men­tal and re­li­gious needs of the Sun­ni Is­lam­ic com­mu­ni­ty will be giv­en thought­ful con­sid­er­a­tion.

PNM chair­man and for­mer Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, says all cit­i­zens should be con­cerned "with no sight of the Ho­n­ourable PM since her swear­ing in."

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) says it is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the es­ca­lat­ing sit­u­a­tion be­tween In­dia and Pak­istan fol­low­ing re­cent mil­i­tary ac­tions in the re­gion.

To­ba­go pulled in over 50,000 cruise ship pas­sen­gers this sea­son—one of the is­land’s busiest in re­cent years.