Gov­ern­ment is head­ing to Par­lia­ment to strength­en laws aimed at crack­ing down on what it de­scribes as a “wa­ter theft rack­et” by pri­vate con­trac­tors.

Ho­tels, guest­hous­es and vil­las in To­ba­go are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing high oc­cu­pan­cy lev­els for the East­er week­end.

Pub­lic In­fra­struc­ture Sec­re­tary Nathisha Charles-Pan­tin says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has been car­ry­ing out patch­ing and paving works across the is­land as part of on­go­ing ef­forts to im­prove the road net­work.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is urg­ing the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) to ac­tive­ly de­fend work­ers’ rights, de­spite the coali­tion the or­gan­i­sa­tion has formed with the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to in­tro­duce leg­is­la­tion to sup­port the im­ple­men­ta­tion of an Ad­vanced Pas­sen­ger In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (APIS) as part of ef­forts to strength­en bor­der se­cu­ri­ty and com­bat transna­tion­al crime.

The Gov­ern­ment is set to over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion per­mit­ting sys­tem, with Cab­i­net ap­prov­ing the re­moval of a long-stand­ing pub­lic health ap­proval re­quire­ment in a bid to cut de­lays and stim­u­late de­vel­op­ment.

The Gov­ern­ment is set to in­vest tens of mil­lions of dol­lars in a mix of short-, medi­um-, and long-term projects aimed at sta­bil­is­ing and ex­pand­ing wa­ter pro­duc­tion across Trinidad and To­ba­go. These ini­tia­tives in­clude a $7.5 mil­lion tank farm pro­gramme, a $20 mil­lion up­grade to a ma­jor treat­ment plant, and the con­struc­tion of new de­sali­na­tion fa­cil­i­ties.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Oil Pol­lu­tion Com­pen­sa­tion (IOPC) Fund has re­vealed that it dis­bursed TT$43,974,688 in com­pen­sa­tion to lo­cal en­ti­ties as of De­cem­ber 31, 2025, fol­low­ing the oil spill from the barge Gulf­stream, which ran aground off To­ba­go in Feb­ru­ary 2024.

Chuck E Cheese con­tin­ues to bounce back af­ter the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, and now it is en­cour­ag­ing chil­dren to lit­er­al­ly bounce around in a brand new, in­ter­ac­tive play area known as “The Ad­ven­ture Zone,”  just in time for East­er va­ca­tion. 

Busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra has se­cured a le­gal vic­to­ry posthu­mous­ly, af­ter a High Court judge dis­missed a civ­il law­suit brought against him and his com­pa­ny, DG Readymix.

Point Fortin May­or Clyde James is ap­peal­ing for ur­gent Gov­ern­ment as­sis­tance as the bor­ough pre­pares for its Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions, which face sig­nif­i­cant fi­nan­cial chal­lenges ahead of their launch.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates says the $16 mil­lion spent by the Gov­ern­ment on the Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive for Car­ni­val 2026 is a sig­nif­i­cant sum that war­rants close pub­lic scruti­ny.