Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Car­los Cor­raspe is on 240 days' va­ca­tion and was not sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave, as was ini­tial­ly claimed in me­dia re­ports.

For nine years, he has been fight­ing a rare au­toim­mune dis­ease—Ju­ve­nile Der­mato­myosi­tis (JDM)—that has robbed him of his strength, his health, and the care­free joys of child­hood. Once able to run and play out­side, Jay­lon now spends most of his days in a wheel­chair, of­ten parked by the win­dow, wait­ing to catch a glimpse of a pass­ing car.

Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs Sean Sobers has voiced con­cern over fresh al­le­ga­tions by Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, about at­tempts to desta­bilise his gov­ern­ment and im­pli­cat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, while tak­ing aim at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

For­mer Fi­fa vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er has warned for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al and cur­rent Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi about com­ment­ing on his on­go­ing le­gal chal­lenge over his US ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings.

By mid-Au­gust, the pub­lic is ex­pect­ed to have a clear­er time­line for the open­ing of the new ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Crown Point, To­ba­go.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­b­ley Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is warn­ing that new Unit­ed States tar­iffs will af­fect glob­al trade and lead to high­er prices for goods in To­ba­go.

While there are 587 ap­pli­ca­tions from doc­tors for jobs, there are 1,800 va­can­cies for nurs­es, and the Gov­ern­ment is pri­ori­tis­ing fill­ing the nurs­ing va­can­cies, says Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe.

Vet­er­an ca­lyp­son­ian Don­ric “Lord Fun­ny” Williamson, 84, was laid to rest yes­ter­day in a farewell that re­flect­ed the warmth of his peers but which fell short of the grand send-offs af­ford­ed to some of the genre’s oth­er icons.

As days turn in­to weeks since the Gov­ern­ment shut down the Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), cit­i­zens say the ev­i­dence of non-op­er­a­tional teams in their com­mu­ni­ties is be­com­ing more glar­ing.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stal­wart Joan Yuille-Williams is deny­ing claims she was told not to at­tend the par­ty’s gen­er­al coun­cil or oth­er meet­ings at Bal­isi­er House.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says con­firmed dengue cas­es in T&T fell sig­nif­i­cant­ly be­tween Jan­u­ary and Ju­ly 2025, with on­ly 28 cas­es record­ed, com­pared to 658 dur­ing the same pe­ri­od in 2024. He cau­tioned that de­spite the drop, con­tin­ued pre­ven­tion ef­forts re­main nec­es­sary.

Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our says all of the Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) trans­port de­pots need ad­dress­ing.