Wid­ow Sup­port TT is call­ing for an in­crease in the wid­ow’s grant and stronger sup­port for women who, af­ter los­ing their hus­bands, are forced to fight cost­ly prop­er­ty bat­tles—with some even fac­ing gun vi­o­lence in their strug­gle to keep their fam­i­ly homes.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the sub­stan­tial for­eign ex­change pay­ment made to Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer re­mains on­go­ing and ac­tive.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John, has con­firmed that the Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing sup­ple­men­tal ap­pro­pri­a­tions to com­plete over 100 ap­proved in­fra­struc­ture projects, with a sig­nif­i­cant fo­cus on flood mit­i­ga­tion ini­tia­tives.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­firmed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3,000 body cam­eras have been re­quest­ed for full de­ploy­ment across law en­force­ment agen­cies. He not­ed that, as of now, 970 body cam­eras are in ac­tive use by mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Mount­ing le­gal bills and a spike in white-col­lar crim­i­nal lit­i­ga­tion have prompt­ed the Gov­ern­ment to re­quest an ad­di­tion­al $89,492,221 for the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs.

Op­po­si­tion PNM MP and for­mer En­er­gy min­is­ter and prime min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, yes­ter­day called on Gov­ern­ment to clar­i­fy if the State is pay­ing for re­im­burse­ment of the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s fees from the Privy Coun­cil mat­ter against for­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment has sup­ple­ment­ed the 2025 Bud­get of $59.7 bil­lion with a to­tal of $3.14 bil­lion more for 28 min­istries and di­vi­sions af­ter the past Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment’s “fis­cal fi­nan­cial reck­less­ness,” says Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo.

In the af­ter­math of last week’s se­vere flood­ing that dev­as­tat­ed com­mu­ni­ties across sev­er­al parts of Trinidad, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni East, Dr Rishad Seecha­ran, says re­lief op­er­a­tions have in­ten­si­fied to sup­port the af­fect­ed res­i­dents.

Singer/song­writer Keisha Har­ris, bet­ter known by her stage name La­dy La­va, is ad­vis­ing women to be aware of the dan­gers they face and to trust their in­stincts.

Pres­i­dent of the Carlsen Field Vil­lage Coun­cil, Shi­raz Khan, is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to fast-track firearm users’ li­cences for res­i­dents in the area amid con­tin­ued con­cerns about crime.

La Ro­main res­i­dents say they are still in shock over a vi­o­lent at­tack in Debe on Sun­day night that claimed the life of 59-year-old Eliz­a­beth “Mary” Lennard and left her com­mon-law hus­band crit­i­cal­ly in­jured.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has com­mend­ed some of its mem­bers for as­sist­ing in ex­pos­ing a col­league, who has been charged with al­leged­ly smug­gling con­tra­band, in­clud­ing co­caine, in­to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca.