The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is re­as­sur­ing the pub­lic that it is proac­tive­ly man­ag­ing wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion as the coun­try tran­si­tions from the 2026 Dry Sea­son in­to the rainy pe­ri­od but urges cit­i­zens to adopt prac­ti­cal wa­ter con­ser­va­tion mea­sures.

NAS­SAU, Ba­hamas, May 25, CMC – Two for­eign na­tion­als, who re­cent­ly spent three weeks in the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go and trav­eled to The Ba­hamas last week­end, re­main in iso­la­tion, health au­thor­i­ties say.

KIN­SHASA, Con­go (AP) — An­gry young men stormed a hos­pi­tal treat­ing Ebo­la pa­tients at the heart of the lat­est out­break of the dis­ease in east­ern Con­go on Sun­day evening, forc­ing the med­ical staff to scram­ble to evac­u­ate the pa­tients as gun­fire rang out in the area.

A woman was stabbed and an­oth­er man beat­en dur­ing an at­tack in East Port of Spain on Sun­day night.

A 49-year-old man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter al­leged­ly stab­bing an­oth­er man to death fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment near a bar in Tacarigua on Sun­day night.

The Trans­port Min­istry, which will very soon launch a road safe­ty cam­paign, is al­so work­ing on in­tro­duc­ing a check­ered band maxi taxi sys­tem pro­vid­ing reg­u­lat­ed pub­lic trans­port to un­der­served rur­al com­mu­ni­ties.

The pover­ty line in Trinidad and To­ba­go has in­creased and these high­er fig­ures for des­ti­tu­tion and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty ac­knowl­edge the painful re­al­i­ty that life has be­come more ex­pen­sive for or­di­nary cit­i­zens, says Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Van­dana Mo­hit.

The Caribbean wel­comed 35 mil­lion vis­i­tors in 2025, ac­cord­ing to the Caribbean Tourism Or­ga­ni­za­tion (CTO), once again sur­pass­ing pre-pan­dem­ic lev­els. But did every vis­i­tor tru­ly feel wel­come in the re­gion? That’s the ques­tion Roni Weiss, the ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of Trav­el Uni­ty, a non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion work­ing to cre­ate a more di­verse and in­clu­sive trav­el in­dus­try, is putting to des­ti­na­tions.

For­mer PNM of­fi­cer Dane Wil­son be­lieves both Siparia Al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts and Diego Mar­tin Al­der­man Paul Na­hous — who switched from the NTA to the UNC in 2025 — should re­sign from their po­si­tions af­ter chang­ing their po­lit­i­cal al­le­giance.

Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram has promised to re­fur­bish the Ota­heite Fish­ing Fa­cil­i­ty, with ef­forts to re­store elec­tric­i­ty set to be­gin to­day while fund­ing is se­cured for ma­jor re­pairs.

The First Wave Move­ment has con­demned the crim­i­nal charges laid against Ka­ia Sealy, de­scrib­ing the pros­e­cu­tion as “a trav­es­ty of jus­tice” and call­ing for the im­me­di­ate with­draw­al of the charges.

UNC Coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram (Freeport/Chick­land) was in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a sus­pect­ed sui­cide at­tempt.