Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj is dis­miss­ing fears of a diplo­mat­ic rift with­in Cari­com, fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sharp crit­i­cism of the re­gion­al bloc ear­li­er this week.

T&T is ac­tive­ly seek­ing to ap­point an am­bas­sador to Venezuela, de­spite Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­ing de­clared “per­sona non gra­ta” by the Venezue­lan Na­tion­al As­sem­bly.

While the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry has af­firmed that stu­dents ex­pelled from pub­lic schools are not el­i­gi­ble for read­mis­sion, this pol­i­cy ap­plies on­ly in cas­es of se­ri­ous mis­con­duct, such as school fights or threats to safe­ty. Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Michael Dowlath re­as­sured the Sen­ate yes­ter­day that the min­istry is ac­tive­ly work­ing to safe­guard the right to ed­u­ca­tion for these stu­dents, in­clud­ing those placed in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

The La Ca­sita His­pan­ic Cul­tur­al Cen­tre is urg­ing both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al au­thor­i­ties to safe­guard the rights of Venezue­lan mi­grants and asy­lum seek­ers in T&T, amid grow­ing fears of de­por­ta­tion and es­ca­lat­ing diplo­mat­ic ten­sions be­tween Port-of-Spain and Cara­cas.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) on Mon­day ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of "shut­ting down" Mon­day's Sen­ate Bud­get de­bate - but Gov­ern­ment Sen­ate leader Dar­rell Al­la­har has de­nied that.

Em­i­nent Se­nior Coun­sel Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj has ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the abil­i­ty of new­ly-ap­point­ed Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh to en­hance the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice in T&T

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent in which two stu­dents were seen phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing an­oth­er stu­dent at Siparia East Sec­ondary School.

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Dwayne Gibbs died last week while par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 2025 World Triathlon Cham­pi­onship Fi­nals in Aus­tralia.

To­ba­go record­ed its sev­enth mur­der for the year on Mon­day night when a Calder Hall man was gunned down near his home. The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as 44-year-old Reynold “Butch­er” Al­leyne of Four Roads, Calder Hall.

The body of a man dis­cov­ered at Windy Hill, Arou­ca, yes­ter­day morn­ing is be­lieved to be that of a Tu­na­puna res­i­dent re­port­ed miss­ing ear­li­er this month.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has re­ceived ac­cred­i­ta­tion from the Green Cli­mate Fund (GCF) as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first Di­rect Ac­cess En­ti­ty (DAE).

Thou­sands of gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers marched through the Venezue­lan state of Mi­ran­da on Tues­day, hold­ing plac­ards of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and call­ing on her “not to de­stroy the peace” in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.