Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will ad­dress the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) on Sep­tem­ber 26. Be­fore that, she con­firmed that the an­nu­al Re­pub­lic Day na­tion­al awards cer­e­mo­ny will take place and that she will be in at­ten­dance.

Res­i­dents, busi­ness own­ers and cor­po­ra­tion work­ers joined forces in Mar­aval to pull a re­frig­er­a­tor from an un­der­ground drain at Val­lot Street and Sad­dle Road yes­ter­day.

Mo­torists seek­ing to es­cape traf­fic by us­ing road­ways along aban­doned Ca­roni (1975) Lim­it­ed hous­ing lots may soon no­tice a new kind of traf­fic—lit­ter war­dens ly­ing in wait for of­fend­ers who have trans­formed the area in­to an il­le­gal dump­ing ground.

For the first time, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has been named a Five Star Ma­jor Air­line by the Air­line Pas­sen­ger Ex­pe­ri­ence As­so­ci­a­tion (APEX). CAL has pre­vi­ous­ly been named a Four Star Ma­jor Air­line in 2024, 2022, 2020, and 2019. But at the APEX/IF­SA Glob­al EX­PO Awards Cer­e­mo­ny held in Cal­i­for­nia, the lo­cal car­ri­er did one bet­ter than last year, cop­ping the APEX Five Star Ma­jor Air­line 2026 award. It’s the on­ly Caribbean car­ri­er to be named in that cat­e­go­ry along­side air­lines such as Alas­ka Air­lines, Hawai­ian Air­lines, Jet­Blue Air­ways, and French bou­tique air­line La Com­pag­nie.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has pledged sup­port for the steel­pan fra­ter­ni­ty af­ter the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) with­drew spon­sor­ship from three Steel­bands.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced Gov­ern­ment has in­struct­ed the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) to im­ple­ment salary ad­just­ments and pay out­stand­ing ar­rears to em­ploy­ees dat­ing back to the 2014–2016 ne­go­ti­at­ing pe­ri­od.

The Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MC­CD) has con­firmed a spe­cial per­for­mance for con­tes­tants af­fect­ed by the smoke bomb in­ci­dent at the La Reine Rive Self-Ex­pres­sion and Tal­ent Fi­nals of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion last Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 2025, at SAPA.

Au­thor­i­ties in­ter­cept­ed a ves­sel off the Point Fortin coast­line ear­ly Fri­day, seiz­ing over $29 mil­lion worth of high-grade cannabis. The op­er­a­tion fol­lowed in­tel­li­gence re­ceived on Thurs­day in­di­cat­ing a large con­sign­ment of Colom­bian “Creepy” mar­i­jua­na was be­ing trans­port­ed from Venezuela to Trinidad aboard a fish­ing ves­sel.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has con­demned the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to end spon­sor­ship of three Steel­bands, call­ing the move “un­jus­ti­fi­able and un­for­giv­able.” In a post on so­cial me­dia, Young said the af­fect­ed bands are “im­por­tant pil­lars in their re­spec­tive com­mu­ni­ties—they pro­vide safe spaces for our cit­i­zens to learn about team build­ing, dis­ci­pline, cul­ture, shar­ing, hard work, and achiev­ing suc­cess.”

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) is de­mand­ing the im­me­di­ate re­in­state­ment of all Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers it says were un­just­ly dis­missed.

For­mer FI­FA vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er will learn the out­come of his long-run­ning ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings be­fore the end of the month.

Noise pol­lu­tion, school vi­o­lence, drug abuse and il­le­gal squat­ting were among the long list of griev­ances raised by res­i­dents at a po­lice town meet­ing host­ed by the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion at Swa­ha Hin­du Col­lege on Cu­napo South­ern Main Road on Thurs­day evening.