Barataria/San Juan MP Sad­dam Ho­sein has re­ject­ed Op­po­si­tion claims that the Gov­ern­ment is weak­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­cure­ment safe­guards, ac­cus­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of hypocrisy over its own record on re­cusals, ex­emp­tions and sin­gle-source con­tracts while in of­fice.

Days af­ter T&T signed an Air Ser­vices Agree­ment with Pana­ma on the side­lines of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in New York, lo­cal car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is con­sid­er­ing of­fer­ing flights to the Cen­tral Amer­i­can na­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has been placed un­der a Yel­low-Lev­el Hot Spell Alert as tem­per­a­tures are ex­pect­ed to climb over the com­ing weeks, with “feels-like” tem­per­a­tures po­ten­tial­ly reach­ing as high as 44°C in some ar­eas.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­in­forced its promise to pro­tect and serve all cit­i­zens across T&T, re­gard­less of where they re­side.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Rishi Singh says crime in To­ba­go is large­ly be­ing fu­elled by mis­guid­ed young peo­ple.

As Caribbean coun­tries grap­ple with ex­treme heat and drought, the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) is warn­ing world lead­ers that cli­mate promis­es must trans­late in­to ac­tion and ac­ces­si­ble fi­nanc­ing for vul­ner­a­ble states.

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of deep­en­ing po­lit­i­cal and so­cial di­vi­sions by sig­nalling that the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed spe­cial op­er­a­tions pow­ers could be ap­plied dif­fer­ent­ly de­pend­ing on which par­ty con­trols a con­stituen­cy.

Trinidad and To­ba­go could reach the end of the 2026 wet sea­son with less wa­ter in the ground than usu­al, as fore­cast­ers warn of in­creas­ing­ly un­re­li­able rain­fall, de­vel­op­ing drought con­di­tions and per­sis­tent heat that could put ad­di­tion­al pres­sure on farms and wa­ter sup­plies.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has been placed un­der a Yel­low-Lev­el Hot Spell Alert as tem­per­a­tures are ex­pect­ed to climb over the com­ing weeks, with “feels-like” tem­per­a­tures po­ten­tial­ly reach­ing as high as 44°C in some ar­eas.

Cus­tomers in parts of Cen­tral and South Trinidad can ex­pect dis­rup­tions to their wa­ter sup­ply when the Point Lisas De­sali­na­tion Plant un­der­goes its an­nu­al planned main­te­nance shut­down.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez has con­firmed that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is per­sona gra­ta in Venezuela, sig­nalling a sig­nif­i­cant shift in re­la­tions be­tween the two neigh­bour­ing coun­tries.

Pro­man is re­duc­ing its glob­al work­force, cit­ing con­strained and un­cer­tain gas sup­plies in Trinidad and the re­sult­ing im­pact on the com­pa­ny’s mar­gins.