Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she was on the edge of her seat wait­ing to see how Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark would break an­oth­er 15-15 dead­lock in the Up­per House, but says she is not con­cerned about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fu­ture Gov­ern­ment leg­is­la­tion be­ing de­feat­ed.

As ca­lyp­so lovers around the world mourn the Mighty Spar­row, To­bag­o­ni­ans are tak­ing the loss per­son­al­ly.

UWI Pro­fes­sor of Com­mer­cial and En­vi­ron­men­tal Law Ra­jen­dra Ram­lo­gan is ques­tion­ing whether Trinidad and To­ba­go still needs an ap­point­ed Sen­ate, ar­gu­ing that it may be time to re­con­sid­er the sys­tem al­to­geth­er.

One day af­ter the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of State an­nounced a pol­i­cy ef­fec­tive­ly bar­ring peo­ple from en­ter­ing the US over con­cerns about cor­rup­tion and drug traf­fick­ing, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said the Gov­ern­ment would not rec­om­mend any­one to be black­list­ed.

Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co may have left the stage, but from the steel­pan yards of Port-of-Spain to a new gen­er­a­tion of so­ca and ca­lyp­so artistes, his mu­sic is still be­ing car­ried for­ward.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les and for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young have de­fend­ed the nine In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors af­ter they vot­ed against the Gov­ern­ment’s con­tro­ver­sial Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Amend­ment Bill (2026), with Beck­les warn­ing that the leg­is­la­tion could open the door to bil­lions of dol­lars be­ing squan­dered.

Mooti­lal Ramhit and Sons Con­tract­ing Ltd with­drew from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) bil­lion-dol­lar hous­ing plan be­cause the com­pa­ny was not in­ter­est­ed in the project, Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh said.

Deputy Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader and Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John has ac­cused the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) of at­tempt­ing to cur­tail Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s free­dom of ex­pres­sion.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der says the re­cent­ly passed leg­is­la­tion that over­hauled the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) will help ac­cel­er­ate hous­ing con­struc­tion across Trinidad and To­ba­go, ar­gu­ing that bu­reau­crat­ic de­lays have long frus­trat­ed ef­forts to ad­dress the na­tion's hous­ing short­age.

Frus­tra­tion is grow­ing among more than 50 work­ers at Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort who have been tem­porar­i­ly laid off.

Kid­napped out­side a phar­ma­cy, held cap­tive overnight and forced to with­draw a large sum of mon­ey from a bank, 77-year-old Tar­ran Gal­lai be­lieves his faith in God helped him sur­vive the or­deal.

Two road safe­ty ad­vo­cates are call­ing for im­proved traf­fic man­age­ment af­ter four non-fa­tal ac­ci­dents caused ma­jor grid­lock yes­ter­day morn­ing.