For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is deny­ing claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion spent over $120 mil­lion on ne­go­ti­a­tions for the Drag­on gas project with noth­ing to show for it.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and for­mer prime min­is­ter and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young trad­ed ac­cu­sa­tions of hypocrisy yes­ter­day over the han­dling of the Drag­on Gas project and how much de­tail of the new OFAC li­cence the oth­er was will­ing to re­veal.

For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and at­tor­ney Sub­has Pan­day has de­fend­ed the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to keep Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee in her Cab­i­net.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee says he will not step down amid re­newed fraud al­le­ga­tions, in­sist­ing he is in­no­cent and call­ing on the me­dia to in­ves­ti­gate how the case resur­faced.

The cur­rent State of Emer­gency has seen a dras­tic re­duc­tion in gang-re­lat­ed homi­cides and oth­er types of vi­o­lent crime, says At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie.

Car­ing about the well­ness of the liv­ing is not some­thing that usu­al­ly comes to mind when you think of a fu­ner­al home, but that was the fo­cus of the JE Guide Fu­ner­al Home and Cre­ma­to­ri­um dur­ing its sec­ond an­nu­al health fair in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte has ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) of wrong­ly clas­si­fy­ing the Break­fast Shed (Femmes de Chalet) in Port-of-Spain as an in­dus­tri­al cus­tomer, re­sult­ing in ten­ants be­ing over­billed for elec­tric­i­ty for years.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah has urged the Gov­ern­ment to place na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty at the cen­tre of the up­com­ing bud­get, ar­gu­ing that safe­ty and sta­bil­i­ty are es­sen­tial pil­lars for sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth, in­vestor con­fi­dence, and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram is now on med­ical leave, Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe con­firmed yes­ter­day, though he de­clined to give de­tails on the du­ra­tion or tim­ing of the leave.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) and the Dif­fer­ent­ly-Abled Move­ment are urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to in­crease the dis­abil­i­ty grant when the 2026 Bud­get is pre­sent­ed on Mon­day.

The Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSPTT) has wel­comed the ad­di­tion of five new drugs to the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) but hopes to meet with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe to dis­cuss fur­ther im­prove­ments to the na­tion­al ini­tia­tive.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) has con­demned the de­ci­sion to re­align the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) un­der the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, warn­ing that the move threat­ens the bu­reau’s in­de­pen­dence and risks po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.