Adam’s Bagels says it is tak­ing im­me­di­ate steps to strength­en se­cu­ri­ty at its Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval, premis­es af­ter a woman was beat­en and robbed in the car park.

Gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank is warn­ing that cli­mate change is no longer sim­ply an en­vi­ron­men­tal con­cern but a grow­ing threat to eco­nom­ic and fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty that pol­i­cy­mak­ers and reg­u­la­tors must pre­pare for now.

Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­nied any wrong­do­ing fol­low­ing the ex­e­cu­tion of a search war­rant by the po­lice at his Gulf View, San Fer­nan­do, res­i­dence on Mon­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie have de­clined to com­ment on the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of re­sort­ing to po­lit­i­cal in­sults and per­son­al at­tacks in­stead of ad­dress­ing what she de­scribes as Trinidad and To­ba­go's wors­en­ing eco­nom­ic cri­sis.

The Ju­di­cia­ry and the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers are urg­ing re­spect for due process and the pre­sump­tion of in­no­cence as Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen re­mains un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion for cor­rup­tion.

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.