Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says the ex­pand­ed re­spon­si­bil­i­ties placed on some min­is­ters did not nec­es­sar­i­ly trans­late in­to a sig­nif­i­cant­ly heav­ier work­load, since much of the tech­ni­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive work of Gov­ern­ment was car­ried out by pub­lic of­fi­cers.

Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad says he is un­both­ered by the re­align­ment of Cab­i­net re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, which took ef­fect on Sep­tem­ber 30.

A High Court Judge has de­clined to stop an elec­tion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East Women’s League af­ter a long-stand­ing par­ty mem­ber brought le­gal ac­tion over be­ing al­leged­ly ex­clud­ed from the poll.

Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad said the Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing the fund­ing need­ed to ex­pand the Gov­ern­ment As­sis­tance for Tu­ition Ex­pens­es (GATE) pro­gramme.

About 15 house­holds in the Ce­dros dis­trict have been af­fect­ed by flood­ing, with wa­ter en­ter­ing homes in Bonasse, Fuller­ton, Lime­field Vil­lage and St Mary’s Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment.

Near­ly three out of every four firearms re­cov­ered in Trinidad and To­ba­go and sub­mit­ted to US au­thor­i­ties for trac­ing in 2025 were linked to the US firearms mar­ket, a sharp in­crease from just over half in 2020.

Sec­re­tary of Tourism Zor­isha Hack­ett has de­scribed the new Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) week­ly di­rect flight from Toron­to to To­ba­go as a win for the is­land. CAL an­nounced the flight on Fri­day, adding that the ser­vice will be­gin on Oc­to­ber 25, ahead of the fifth an­nu­al To­ba­go Car­ni­val, sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 30-No­vem­ber 1.

Five months af­ter be­ing elect­ed PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil chair­man, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has quit the par­ty. The de­vel­op­ment comes as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment seeks to re­build fol­low­ing its re­sound­ing 15-0 de­feat in the Jan­u­ary To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed is de­scrib­ing the pro­ce­dur­al er­ror that led to the fail­ure of Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les’ pri­vate mo­tion in Par­lia­ment as an overzeal­ous mis­take, but says it al­so high­lights deep­er or­gan­i­sa­tion­al prob­lems with­in the Op­po­si­tion, which he be­lieves is not op­er­at­ing as a co­he­sive unit.

Out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions, back­pay, em­ploy­ment, and work­er sup­port are among the key de­mands be­ing placed on the Gov­ern­ment ahead of the 2027 Na­tion­al Bud­get, as unions push for set­tle­ments de­spite econ­o­mists warn­ing that an­oth­er deficit bud­get could put pres­sure on the econ­o­my.

An 18-year-old was among two peo­ple de­tained in con­nec­tion with an at­tempt­ed rob­bery at a bar in Mara­bel­la, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. Of­fi­cers al­so seized a firearm and cut­lass.

Bail was de­nied to a 42-year-old man charged with sac­ri­lege fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at a church in La Lune, Moru­ga.