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.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have of­fered dif­fer­ing views on the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) de­ci­sion to walk out of Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, fol­low­ing ac­cu­sa­tions of bias against Speak­er of the House Jagdeo Singh.

One day af­ter his wife, Grace­lyn Ram­ber­an, and their son Randy Ram­per­sad were shot dead by as­sailants at their Ste Madeleine home, 58-year-old Vi­jai Ram­per­sad con­tin­ues to cling to life at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Thir­ty-sev­en days af­ter he went miss­ing, Ch­agua­nas club own­er Im­raz Ali’s de­com­pos­ing body was found down a precipice, wrapped in plas­tic, off the North Coast Road yes­ter­day.

Three weeks af­ter 12-year-old Mari­ah Seenath was mur­dered, rel­a­tives, friends, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, her school­mates and oth­er con­cerned cit­i­zens gath­ered yes­ter­day for a can­dle­light vig­il, call­ing for jus­tice and re­mem­ber­ing the young girl’s life.