Some 20,000 dai­ly-rat­ed pub­lic-sec­tor work­ers could be­gin re­ceiv­ing their new salaries this month af­ter Cab­i­net rat­i­fied a ten per cent wage agree­ment be­tween the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will dis­burse more than $600,000 in back­pay to par­ents un­der its new ba­by grant pro­gramme.

Flow will do­nate TT$200 for every six scored by the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) dur­ing the 2026 Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), with the funds go­ing to the Na­tion­al Cen­tre for Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties (NCPD).

Po­lice seized 416.5 kilo­grammes of co­caine with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $193.5 mil­lion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Long­denville.

Three men have been grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the court in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery with vi­o­lence, while a fourth man is due to ap­pear in court to­day charged with ma­li­cious wound­ing.

Of­fi­cials from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) vis­it­ed schools on Thurs­day to see first­hand the con­di­tions of fa­cil­i­ties ahead of the be­gin­ning of the new school term next week.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) has launched a new on­line Da­ta Hub de­signed to give in­vestors, re­searchers, pol­i­cy­mak­ers and the wider pub­lic eas­i­er ac­cess to fi­nan­cial and se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket sta­tis­tics.

For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has ar­rived in Venezuela for high-lev­el bi­lat­er­al talks, as Trinidad and To­ba­go seeks to strength­en diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions with its clos­est South Amer­i­can neigh­bour fol­low­ing a pe­ri­od of strained ties.

Ma­yaro MP Nicholas Mor­ris has de­fend­ed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s con­tro­ver­sial In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sages, say­ing they demon­strate her “iron-like for­ti­tude” to stand up for peo­ple who have been left be­hind.

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion say they have al­so re­port­ed a no­tice­able in­crease in cop­per thefts, in­clud­ing telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­bles and are ini­ti­at­ing height­ened po­lice ac­tiv­i­ties in a bid to quell fur­ther van­dal­ism and thefts of valu­able equip­ment.

A long-an­tic­i­pat­ed diplo­mat­ic meet­ing be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela is set to take place to­day, with For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers trav­el­ling to Cara­cas for talks with Venezue­lan For­eign Min­is­ter Félix Plasen­cia.

Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land says the Op­po­si­tion will not sup­port any at­tempt by the Gov­ern­ment to fur­ther ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) be­yond Sep­tem­ber 17, main­tain­ing that its po­si­tion is ground­ed in an as­sess­ment of the mea­sure’s ef­fec­tive­ness and a com­mit­ment to prin­ci­ple.