The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has no plans to make its fi­nan­cial state­ments pub­lic de­spite the on­go­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to how its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain was fund­ed, par­ty chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has said.

A Cab­i­net note which cir­cu­lat­ed on Mon­day night sparked spec­u­la­tion that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day mil­i­tary pa­rade had been can­celled, but Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Min­istry of De­fence have both con­firmed the event will pro­ceed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day de­clined to com­ment on the Unit­ed States’ re­cent cam­paign to dis­man­tle the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC), even as she met with a high-lev­el Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion to dis­cuss strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al ties.

The Unit­ed States cam­paign to dis­man­tle the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court (ICC) has prompt­ed warn­ings in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with for­mer NAR and UNC min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an say­ing any move to weak­en or aban­don the court would have pro­found im­pli­ca­tions for glob­al ju­rispru­dence.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al who made in­ter­na­tion­al head­lines af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed in the Unit­ed States for at­tempt­ing to arrange the mur­der of his for­mer girl­friend’s part­ner has died in Flori­da.

That was the des­per­ate plea from Pe­nal Rock Road, Moru­ga res­i­dent Ger­ald Gue­var­ro, as he stood in­side a mas­sive crater just me­tres from his home, ap­peal­ing to the Gov­ern­ment to re­pair the de­te­ri­o­rat­ing road­way.

Work is con­tin­u­ing on the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Debe Cam­pus as the Gov­ern­ment moves to com­plete the fa­cil­i­ty as quick­ly as pos­si­ble, says Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion Prakash Per­sad.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has of­fi­cial­ly hand­ed over the new Cen­tral Block at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal cam­pus to the Min­istry of Health.

The Trin­ba­go Farm­ers Union (TFU) is seek­ing an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and key gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to ad­dress grow­ing con­cerns over the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dairy in­dus­try amid re­ports that Nestlé is seek­ing to di­vest its lo­cal op­er­a­tions.

The pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Copy­right Col­lec­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TTC­CO) is call­ing for greater trans­paren­cy over the li­cens­ing of FI­FA World Cup broad­casts in com­mer­cial es­tab­lish­ments, say­ing the pub­lic de­bate should be guid­ed by facts, con­trac­tu­al rights and in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty law rather than spec­u­la­tion.

For Sama­ra Sid­hooram, top­ping the Fe­lic­i­ty SDMS Hin­du School in the 2026 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion is not the end of her jour­ney—it is the first step to­wards ful­fill­ing a dream in­spired by some­one very close to her.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ar­rest­ed four peo­ple for rob­bery and lar­ce­ny-re­lat­ed of­fences, de­tained four oth­ers in con­nec­tion with a firearms in­ves­ti­ga­tion, and re­cov­ered two stolen cel­lu­lar phones dur­ing a se­ries of in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions as part of Op­er­a­tion RES­OLUTE Shield in Ch­agua­nas, Port-of-Spain and To­ba­go.