Trade unions and econ­o­mists are sound­ing the alarm over Trinidad and To­ba­go’s em­ploy­ment out­look, af­ter of­fi­cial da­ta showed near­ly 6,000 jobs dis­ap­peared in the first three months of 2026, warn­ing that the im­pact stretch­es far be­yond the labour mar­ket and in­to house­holds, busi­ness­es and the wider econ­o­my.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is look­ing for­ward to what she de­scribed as “round two” of at­tempts to boo her on In­de­pen­dence Day, as po­lit­i­cal ten­sions con­tin­ue to sim­mer fol­low­ing her ab­sence from the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (ES­CTT) flag­ship Eman­ci­pa­tion Vil­lage cel­e­bra­tions over the week­end.

While Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) min­is­ters have fol­lowed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in at­tack­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) af­ter Africa Eman­ci­pa­tion Day is­sues, PNM leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called on the PM to stop dis­tract­ing the pub­lic with “crazy rant­i­ng” and an­swer mount­ing ques­tions on na­tion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing job­less­ness.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of pos­ing “a great dan­ger to the so­cial and racial sta­bil­i­ty of this coun­try,” as he con­tin­ues his crit­i­cism of the Gov­ern­ment’s poli­cies and ap­proach.

Af­ter op­er­at­ing for al­most a year with less fund­ing than re­quest­ed, the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion is con­sid­er­ing changes to its garbage col­lec­tion sys­tem as it tries to bal­ance ser­vice de­liv­ery with its avail­able re­sources.

Hun­dreds of hope­ful Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cruits braved blis­ter­ing heat, traf­fic grid­lock and hours of wait­ing in Mara­bel­la yes­ter­day, un­de­terred by the coun­try’s vi­o­lent crime cri­sis as they pur­sued an op­por­tu­ni­ty to join the TTPS.

The Kwame Ture Ed­u­ca­tion and De­vel­op­ment Cen­tre has wel­comed the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion’s de­ci­sion to re­name Ox­ford Street as Kwame Ture Street, de­scrib­ing it as a his­toric recog­ni­tion of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most in­flu­en­tial sons.

The San Juan/Laven­tille Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (SLRC) re­mains in lim­bo over the fu­ture of its Aranguez Main Road head­quar­ters, with chair­man Richard Wal­cott say­ing there has been no com­mu­ni­ca­tion from ei­ther the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment or the State-owned Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) since as­sur­ances were giv­en that the mat­ter would be re­solved.

Re­porters With­out Bor­ders (RSF), a glob­al press free­dom or­gan­i­sa­tion, is warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­de­pen­dent me­dia sec­tor is fac­ing grow­ing fi­nan­cial pres­sure, as gov­ern­ment ad­ver­tis­ing re­mains sus­pend­ed.

Po­lice con­sta­ble Nicholas Ram­nar­ine, who was charged with Mis­be­hav­iour in Pub­lic Of­fice af­ter a miss­ing firearm was found in a garbage bag out­side the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion last Wednes­day, has been grant­ed $200,000 bail with sure­ty.

A Freeport man es­caped in­jury on Sun­day af­ter some­one known to him al­leged­ly opened fire on him fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment dur­ing a lime at the vic­tim’s home.

Mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer Rom­mel Dou­glas is ex­pect­ed to re­ceive a full mil­i­tary send-off on Thurs­day be­fore be­ing cre­mat­ed.