As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares its first bud­get next month, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has pre­dict­ed the Gov­ern­ment will not have enough mon­ey to ful­fil its cam­paign promis­es. Al­though he ex­pects a bal­anced bud­get, there will be no re­duc­tion of pub­lic debt or back pay to pub­lic ser­vants, which could run in­to “20 to 30 bil­lion dol­lars”.

Last Sun­day, Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk re­port­ed that two com­pa­nies led by the wife and daugh­ter of for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings–Pi­cal Ser­vices and Rivulet In­vest­ments–were award­ed $15.6 mil­lion in HDC con­tracts 12 days ahead of the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Po­lice said around 8.10 pm, Kelvin Ra­moutar of Nar­i­va Road No. 3, Man­zanil­la, was op­er­at­ing his sil­ver Nis­san Y11, reg­is­tra­tion PBY 6259, for hire near Top of the Line Meat Mart on the East­ern Main Road. He was ap­proached by three men who asked to be tak­en to Man­rick Street.

Gun­men opened fire out­side a bar in San Juan on Fri­day evening, killing one man and in­jur­ing two oth­ers, in­clud­ing a sol­dier.

Lo­cal gov­ern­ment bod­ies have been pool­ing re­sources to deal with flood­ing, ac­cord­ing to Ryan Ram­per­sad, Chair­man of the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TR­RC).

Of­fice staff em­ployed by Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives will re­ceive a pay rise from Oc­to­ber 2025.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert (Yel­low Lev­el) in ef­fect from 12.01 pm to 7.01 pm to­day.

Two teenage boys were ar­rest­ed af­ter of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a stolen car and what ap­peared to be po­lice uni­forms and equip­ment in Barataria.

A 37-year-old con­struc­tion work­er was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day af­ter po­lice found a shot­gun hid­den in a tree trunk in Fyz­abad.

Tor­ren­tial af­ter­noon rain ren­dered roads im­pass­able in Clax­ton Bay yes­ter­day, leav­ing sev­er­al mo­torists strand­ed and the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gling with flash flood­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­it­er­at­ed her Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to tack­ling cor­rup­tion in the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), fol­low­ing the re­cent ter­mi­na­tion of 400 work­ers.

The Gov­ern­ment’s dis­missal of 400 Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers, jus­ti­fied as a crack­down on “ghost work­ers,” has trig­gered back­lash from trade union lead­ers, who say the move was un­just and breached es­tab­lished labour prac­tices.