Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has sought to re­as­sure law-abid­ing cit­i­zens that mea­sures will be put in place to min­imise dis­rup­tions if they live or work in com­mu­ni­ties sub­ject­ed to Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne has launched a scathing at­tack on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, de­scrib­ing her as a “clear and present dan­ger” to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s democ­ra­cy and ac­cus­ing her of in­creas­ing­ly de­mon­is­ing those who chal­lenge her Gov­ern­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Re­pub­lic Day mes­sage to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers has trig­gered fresh po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sy, with Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day, for­mer UNC min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath and oth­er promi­nent voic­es ques­tion­ing both the tone and tim­ing of her re­marks.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have of­fered dif­fer­ing views on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to dis­miss the po­si­tions of In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors, af­ter all nine vot­ed against the Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill.

The an­nu­al Ganesh Ut­sav cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the Fe­lic­i­ty Ganesh Ut­sav Fes­ti­vals Com­mit­tee (FGUFC) cul­mi­nat­ed yes­ter­day with a colour­ful street pro­ces­sion through the Fe­lic­i­ty com­mu­ni­ty in Ch­agua­nas.

The diplo­mat­ic truce be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela has drawn mixed re­ac­tions in Venezuela fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s meet­ing with act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez on the side­lines of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) in New York on Wednes­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go did not join dozens of del­e­ga­tions that walked out of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) dur­ing Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu’s ad­dress on Thurs­day, with the coun­try’s UN Am­bas­sador Dr Neil Parsan say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains com­mit­ted to a two-state so­lu­tion in which a se­cure Is­rael ex­ists along­side an in­de­pen­dent Pales­tin­ian state.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions (IIR) has can­celled a we­bi­nar fea­tur­ing for­mer Is­raeli am­bas­sador Ephraim Ben Matityahu, cit­ing the on­go­ing Is­raeli-Pales­tin­ian con­flict and the in­tense emo­tions it has gen­er­at­ed.

Lam­beau fish­er­folk have ac­cused Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of “breach of con­tract” as more than two years af­ter the dev­as­tat­ing Feb­ru­ary 7, 2024 oil spill, they are yet to be com­pen­sat­ed.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is call­ing for “a fair share” in the na­tion­al bud­get as he eyes “a con­struc­tion boom” in To­ba­go in the new fis­cal year.

Sec­re­tary of Fi­nance Petal-Ann Roberts said the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has dis­bursed $40 mil­lion to con­trac­tors for the 2025/2026 fis­cal year.

In­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed pho­to­jour­nal­ist and for­mer Guardian Me­dia pho­to ed­i­tor An­drea De Sil­va, whose pho­tographs have tak­en the sto­ries of Trinidad and To­ba­go to au­di­ences around the world, re­ceived the na­tion’s 2026 Cha­co­nia Medal Sil­ver award on Re­pub­lic Day.