This year’s Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions have been dealt a se­vere blow with the pull­out of bmo­bile as an event spon­sor, prompt­ing the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) to ap­peal to the Gov­ern­ment for fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance to stage the an­nu­al event.

The Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) is pro­ject­ed to re­ceive an ad­di­tion­al $23 mil­lion in Gov­ern­ment fund­ing for fis­cal 2027, in­creas­ing its pro­posed sub­ven­tion to $160.2 mil­lion as prepa­ra­tions be­gin for Car­ni­val 2027.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­ject­ed Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) claims that Trinidad and To­ba­go was in re­ces­sion, in­sist­ing the coun­try was mov­ing for­ward eco­nom­i­cal­ly.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has ad­vised the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty to con­duct an en­quiry in­to for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s move­ments in and out of Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing his min­is­te­r­i­al tenure, fol­low­ing claims of 78 trips to Venezuela, “ghost trips” and four diplo­mat­ic pass­ports al­leged­ly held by Young.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment will be­gin is­su­ing mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion cards from No­vem­ber 1.

South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) chair­man Anil Go­sine and med­ical di­rec­tor Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon have ten­dered their res­ig­na­tions.

A young moth­er fears she may soon be un­able to af­ford milk for her child, af­ter she and 123 oth­er dai­ly-paid work­ers were laid off by the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA).

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and her aunt Star Sab­ga are still seek­ing the dis­clo­sure of an unedit­ed copy of an in­ter­cept­ed tele­phone call that led to them be­ing held on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the re­cent­ly com­plet­ed State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has not con­firmed whether the Gov­ern­ment is on track to meet its month-end dead­line for the con­struc­tion of ten ad­di­tion­al po­lice posts.

The Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) has wel­comed a $165 mil­lion over­time al­lo­ca­tion in the 2027 Bud­get, but says chron­ic un­der­in­vest­ment con­tin­ues to ham­per the op­er­a­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Fish­er­man Sel­wyn Sood­een was chopped to death dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er fish­er­man at the Guayagua­yare Fish­ing Port on Sun­day.

The dri­ver, a Lam­beau res­i­dent who lives ap­prox­i­mate­ly 200 me­tres away, sur­vived the ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal, but re­mains hos­pi­talised in sta­ble con­di­tion.