The An­gli­can Bish­op of Bar­ba­dos, the Right Rev­erend Michael Maxwell, is call­ing on can­di­dates con­test­ing the Feb­ru­ary 11 gen­er­al elec­tion to con­duct their cam­paigns in a man­ner that “ho­n­ours God and re­spects the dig­ni­ty of every cit­i­zen, in­clud­ing those of the op­pos­ing po­lit­i­cal par­ties”.

Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed has ad­vised cus­tomers of a pend­ing in­crease in ce­ment prices fol­low­ing high­er man­u­fac­tur­ing costs and a pro­posed in­crease in nat­ur­al gas prices.

This, af­ter chief per­son­nel of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al con­firmed that he, yes­ter­day, made a pro­posed wage set­tle­ment of­fer val­ued at $2.6 bil­lion to the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), struc­tured through a com­bi­na­tion of cash and non-cash ben­e­fits to man­age the State’s fis­cal bur­den.

For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi has warned that the pro­posed Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions—ZOSOs) (Spe­cial Se­cu­ri­ty and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Mea­sures) Bill, 2026, could lead to the “mil­i­tari­sa­tion” of the State, as the Gov­ern­ment seeks to grant sol­diers po­lice pow­ers un­der new leg­isla­tive mea­sures.

Hun­dreds of re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al en­er­gy stake­hold­ers gath­ered yes­ter­day at the Hy­att Re­gency for the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­nu­al con­fer­ence, but the most strik­ing pres­ence was the ab­sence of state-owned en­er­gy com­pa­nies and gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

With Venezuela’s vast gas re­serves and T&T’s un­der­used en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture cre­at­ing a pow­er­ful re­gion­al op­por­tu­ni­ty, cross-bor­der en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion was a top­ic of dis­cus­sion at yes­ter­day’s En­er­gy Con­fer­ence.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has en­dorsed the use of body cam­eras by po­lice of­fi­cers in the field, call­ing it a move that will strength­en pub­lic con­fi­dence in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine moved swift­ly from cer­e­mo­ny to sub­stance, as he not on­ly an­nounced his Sec­re­taries yes­ter­day but al­so set ex­pec­ta­tions and as­signed de­liv­er­ables.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says there will be no re­duc­tion in im­mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion fees, even as more than 1,600 mi­grants have al­ready en­gaged the reg­is­tra­tion sys­tem since it opened ear­ly yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says there is no chance of a snap Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tion. It comes as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is set to open its nom­i­na­tions next month, a move po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says is proac­tive and strate­gic.

The Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS) will soon un­der­go an in­de­pen­dent foren­sic au­dit as its board has dis­cov­ered ev­i­dence of sus­pi­cious ad­vanced pay­ments to con­trac­tors with­out proof of work ac­tu­al­ly be­ing done.

Even as mil­lions of dol­lars in for­eign ex­change are spent on im­port­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, gaps in over­sight and co­or­di­na­tion be­tween State agen­cies are cre­at­ing con­di­tions ripe for abuse, in­clud­ing over­pric­ing and cor­rup­tion, House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh warned.