Trinidad and To­ba­go’s lead cli­mate ne­go­tia­tor for 30 years, Kis­han Ku­mars­ingh, has re­signed as Head of Mul­ti­lat­er­al En­vi­ron­men­tal Agree­ments at the Min­istry of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, cit­ing chal­lenges linked to changes in pol­i­cy di­rec­tion since May 2025.

A com­plaint seek­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion of a sec­ond Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd hous­ing de­vel­op­ment project - this time at Beau­car­ro, Cou­va - has been sent to the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tor Bev­er­ly Khan.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of lead­ing a “wicked” and “in­com­pe­tent” Gov­ern­ment now try­ing to dis­tract from mount­ing con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Lim­it­ed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Na­tion­al Women’s League has come out strong­ly in de­fence of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, in­sist­ing she will de­cide the fu­ture of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates “in due course,” while ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy and po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion.

Sev­en peo­ple, in­clud­ing four men and three women, are now in po­lice cus­tody in To­ba­go as po­lice seek an­swers on the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man has ex­pressed sad­ness over the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, say­ing the in­ci­dent has cast a heavy cloud over To­ba­go and sparked broad­er con­cerns about the safe­ty and pro­tec­tion of chil­dren.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s claims of cor­rup­tion with­in the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion—in­clud­ing al­le­ga­tions that for­eign­ers paid up to $50,000 for work per­mits and as much as $250,000 for cit­i­zen­ship doc­u­ments—have trig­gered fresh po­lit­i­cal back­lash, with for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les de­mand­ing why no ar­rests or charges have fol­lowed if au­thor­i­ties tru­ly pos­sess ev­i­dence of a large-scale rack­et.

Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj says pris­on­ers will be re­quired to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete manda­to­ry re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion pro­grammes be­fore they can seek ear­ly re­lease on pa­role.

The Board of Man­age­ment of Holy Name Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, has an­nounced an in­de­pen­dent re­view process fol­low­ing re­cent pub­lic con­cerns and ex­pe­ri­ences shared in re­la­tion to al­le­ga­tions against prin­ci­pal Sis­ter Re­nee Hall.

Weeks af­ter re­ports of miss­ing equip­ment raised con­cerns about se­cu­ri­ty laps­es at the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion, May­or Robert Par­ris now says at least one key piece of equip­ment was nev­er miss­ing, while an­oth­er was sim­ply mis­placed.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for a more tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven and en­er­gy-con­scious fu­ture, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has launched its SPARK Ini­tia­tive—School Part­ner­ship for Aware­ness, Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty & Knowl­edge—aimed at ex­pos­ing sec­ondary school stu­dents to mod­ern elec­tric­i­ty sys­tems and emerg­ing ca­reers in the en­er­gy sec­tor as part of its 80th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions.

Fif­teen mem­bers of the Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) have filed a con­sti­tu­tion­al mo­tion against the State over the al­leged fail­ure to pay them a month­ly spe­cial du­ty al­lowance for vary­ing pe­ri­ods.