Mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion, in­clud­ing leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, say they are wait­ing for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen to pro­ceed with­out mak­ing any pub­lic com­ments to en­sure the mat­ter can con­tin­ue with­out in­ter­fer­ence or hin­drance.

One day af­ter threat­en­ing to fire “lazy” pub­lic sec­tor work­ers, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has vowed to up­root what she de­scribes as a “swine cul­ture” en­trenched in Trinidad and To­ba­go by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Trade union lead­ers have pushed back against the Gov­ern­ment’s threat to dis­miss un­pro­duc­tive pub­lic ser­vants, ar­gu­ing that work­ers can­not be held sole­ly re­spon­si­ble for poor pro­duc­tiv­i­ty when many lack the tools, equip­ment and sup­port need­ed to per­form their du­ties.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen is de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed 2027 al­lo­ca­tions to mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions, ar­gu­ing that fund­ing de­ci­sions are guid­ed by their abil­i­ty to utilise the mon­ey pro­vid­ed, with ad­di­tion­al re­sources avail­able where jus­ti­fied.

Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of hypocrisy over her state­ments about pub­lic ser­vants.

Six­teen Nestlé Trinidad and To­ba­go work­ers have been re­trenched while an­oth­er 30 have ac­cept­ed vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion pack­ages as the multi­na­tion­al food com­pa­ny moves ahead with re­struc­tur­ing its lo­cal dis­tri­b­u­tion op­er­a­tions.

Re­cip­i­ents of the Se­nior Cit­i­zens’ Pen­sion, Dis­abil­i­ty As­sis­tance and Pub­lic As­sis­tance grants will con­tin­ue to be paid as the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices works to clear back­logs and ad­dress in­ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion that has caused mil­lions of dol­lars in wastage.

The Prison Ser­vice paid $773.6 mil­lion in over­time be­tween 2016 and 2026, while a fur­ther $148 mil­lion was re­port­ed out­stand­ing to prison of­fi­cers.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says a whistle­blow­er com­plaint with­in the or­gan­i­sa­tion trig­gered the foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to wa­ter truck­ing con­trac­tor Flex­i­ble En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (FEL), and not any oth­er in­ter­ven­tion.

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) is prepar­ing to take the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) to the In­dus­tri­al Court over the ter­mi­na­tion of 124 dai­ly-paid work­ers, which it says was un­law­ful and breached good in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions prac­tices.

A build­ing ma­te­r­i­al sup­ply com­pa­ny has scored a sec­ond vic­to­ry in a le­gal bat­tle against a for­mer cus­tomer over al­most $1 mil­lion in ar­rears on goods it sup­plied over a decade ago. 

Char­tered sur­vey­or and for­mer pres­i­dent of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for the Con­struc­tion In­dus­try, Afra Ray­mond has warned that re­cent amend­ments to the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, have placed the coun­try on the precipice of con­fu­sion and cor­rup­tion.