In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Fran­cis Lewis is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) in or­der to ad­dress the con­cerns be­ing ex­pressed about the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) law.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the fight against nar­co-traf­fick­ing re­mains ac­tive, even as the Unit­ed States has not car­ried out a ki­net­ic mar­itime strike since the ar­rest of Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

While ac­knowl­edg­ing that the mur­der toll for 2026 is high­er than at the same pe­ri­od last year, Gold Com­man­der for Car­ni­val 2026, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin, has main­tained Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains safe for the pub­lic and vis­i­tors.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle yes­ter­day called on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment to “stop wag­ing war” on vul­ner­a­ble peo­ple with mass ter­mi­na­tions in State agen­cies, not­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tion has cre­at­ed a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in T&T.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has ad­vised its mem­bers that there will be no change to the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to in­crease nat­ur­al gas prices for Light In­dus­tri­al Con­sumers (LIC) for the 2026 pe­ri­od.

Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-led cor­po­ra­tions are ex­ag­ger­at­ing the re­port­ed de­crease in al­lo­ca­tion they re­ceived from the Gov­ern­ment.

Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School’s Eliz­a­beth Singh and Bish­op Anstey High School East/Trin­i­ty Col­lege East’s (BATCE) Aliya Ser­rette are the 2025 Pres­i­dent’s Medal win­ners.

From po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary—some aimed at the Gov­ern­ment, oth­ers knock­ing the Op­po­si­tion—to chut­ney, com­e­dy and cul­ture, the D’ Kaiso Dy­nasty ca­lyp­so tent opened on Thurs­day night at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port-of-Spain, to a large and ap­pre­cia­tive au­di­ence.

This was the pre­vail­ing mind­set of hun­dreds of so­ca lovers who braved rainy con­di­tions to turn out for Patrice Roberts’ free Car­ni­val con­cert at Fla­va Vil­lage, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

A move to wind up the News­day news­pa­per af­ter 32 years of op­er­a­tion has been ap­proved by a High Court Judge.

Eliz­a­beth Singh of Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School and Aaliyah Ser­rett of Bish­op Anstey High School East and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East have been award­ed the Pres­i­dent’s Medal for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance in the 2025 CAPE ex­am­i­na­tions.

The Gov­ern­ment has pro­vid­ed dis­as­ter re­lief as­sis­tance to a res­i­dent af­fect­ed by flood­ing, through the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices.