Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 19-year-old man and seized two firearms along with am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Point Fortin on Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 11, 2025.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) cel­e­brat­ed Di­vali on Fri­day, high­light­ing the con­tri­bu­tions of women in so­ci­ety. Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath ref­er­enced the Hin­du god­dess Moth­er Lak­sh­mi, not­ing the ex­am­ple set by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, PSA Pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas, and Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary Shiv­an­na Sam.

A Dri­ving Un­der the In­flu­ence (DUI) op­er­a­tion in Port of Spain be­tween 11:30 p.m. on Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 10, 2025, and 5:30 a.m. on Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 11, 2025, re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of eleven peo­ple aged be­tween 23 and 49 for ex­ceed­ing the le­gal al­co­hol lim­it while dri­ving. Ten of those ar­rest­ed were men and one was a woman.

Two co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tions in Arou­ca and La Hor­quet­ta on Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 10, 2025, re­sult­ed in the seizure of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, the re­cov­ery of a stolen ve­hi­cle, and sev­er­al ar­rests.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has ap­pealed to na­tion­als liv­ing abroad to re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go to help re­build the na­tion.

Ahead of to­mor­row’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­mit­ted that her gov­ern­ment “can­not give every­body every­thing,” but promised to try.

Chi­na sig­naled Sun­day that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tar­iff threat from Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, urg­ing the U.S. to re­solve dif­fer­ences through ne­go­ti­a­tions in­stead of threats. U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance de­fend­ed Trump’s po­si­tion and seemed to warn Chi­na not to be ag­gres­sive in its re­sponse.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has vowed to con­tin­ue go­ing to war against the so­cial ills fac­ing the na­tion, pledg­ing to con­front cor­rup­tion, crime, and ne­glect with the weapons of law, truth, courage, and con­science.

Last week, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and MP for Ca­roni Cen­tral David Lee was re­ar­rest­ed on charges of con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice–charges that were pre­vi­ous­ly dropped six months ago. His al­leged co-con­spir­a­tor is Hugh Leong Poi, a busi­ness­man who owns Sport Out­let Lim­it­ed.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment is yet to re­lease de­tails of the new li­cence to de­vel­op the Drag­on gas field, but un­der the orig­i­nal 2023 agree­ment, Venezuela was set to re­ceive near­ly half of the in­come from the project.

MP for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Stu­art Young is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to im­me­di­ate­ly re­move Min­is­ter of Hous­ing David Lee from her Cab­i­net.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the Land Set­tle­ment Agency (LSA) Haz­ar Ho­sein has re­signed af­ter serv­ing the state-owned agency for 26 years.