Hard work, cre­ativ­i­ty and com­mit­ment to jour­nal­ism have paid off for Guardian Me­dia jour­nal­ists, who earned three ho­n­ours at the re­gion­al me­dia awards, in­clud­ing one ma­jor award and two spe­cial men­tions, for ex­cel­lence across tele­vi­sion and print.

For Na­reesa Ram­path, suc­cess is not about fol­low­ing the path laid out by tra­di­tion, but hav­ing the courage to cre­ate your own.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $250,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a man who was ma­li­cious­ly pros­e­cut­ed for com­mit­ting a rob­bery.

Trans­port and In­dus­tri­al Work­ers Union (TI­WU) pres­i­dent Shawn Roberts yes­ter­day sought to al­lay con­cerns among mem­bers who vis­it­ed the union’s Laven­tille head­quar­ters seek­ing an up­date on long-run­ning wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

De­spite de­mands for the Gov­ern­ment to ho­n­our its promise to pay pub­lic ser­vants their out­stand­ing wage set­tle­ments, Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) chair­man Dr Sel­wyn Cud­joe says the mon­ey is sim­ply not there.

The Steel Work­ers Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) is warn­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to learn from the coun­try’s ex­pe­ri­ence with Arcelor­Mit­tal as the for­mer Point Lisas steel plant pre­pares to re­sume op­er­a­tions.

Cel­e­brat­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go artist and cul­tur­al icon William “Willi” Chen will be ho­n­oured posthu­mous­ly by the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) with an hon­orary doc­tor­ate in recog­ni­tion of his con­tri­bu­tions to the arts.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) says the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU) in 2026 has al­lo­cat­ed US$19.9 mil­lion to sup­port vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren and fam­i­lies across Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) through pro­grammes fo­cused on dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness, ed­u­ca­tion, child pro­tec­tion and as­sis­tance for the most vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren, in­clud­ing refugee and mi­grant pop­u­la­tions.

Con­go will re­ceive 70,000 dos­es of the Erve­bo vac­cine, which has been ef­fec­tive in past Ebo­la out­breaks, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion and part­ners said Thurs­day, an­nounc­ing a step seen as a ma­jor boost to ef­forts to con­tain what of­fi­cials have de­scribed as the fastest Ebo­la out­break in his­to­ry.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has be­gun im­ple­ment­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from an in­ter­nal in­quiry in­to the dis­pute with­in its San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy, as the par­ty seeks to con­tain grow­ing ten­sions be­tween MP Bri­an Man­ning and con­stituen­cy chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is.

An 80-year-old man was able to call for the help of po­lice of­fi­cers at a gas sta­tion, af­ter be­ing beat­en and kid­napped by his land­lord on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Salary ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) are on track to meet Fri­day’s dead­line, with the mat­ter ex­pect­ed to reach the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties by the end of the week.