Gov­ern­ment is propos­ing sig­nif­i­cant changes to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pub­lic pro­cure­ment regime, ex­pand­ing the cat­e­gories of State spend­ing that can take place out­side the nor­mal pro­cure­ment rules while ex­press­ly lim­it­ing what the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) can do fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Agency (OS­HA) has found that con­di­tions at the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s Tow­er A build­ing on Low­er St Vin­cent Street, Port of Spain, did not pose a se­ri­ous health risk to em­ploy­ees, rul­ing that a four-day re­fusal to work by staff was not jus­ti­fied.

A po­lice con­sta­ble has been charged for al­leged­ly trans­port­ing a pur­port­ed gang mem­ber af­ter he was dis­charged from hos­pi­tal last week.

Philip Mor­ris Trinidad and To­ba­go is rolling out its Un­der­age Ac­cess Pre­ven­tion Pro­gramme, tar­get­ing more than 3,500 points of sale na­tion­wide this year to help pre­vent to­bac­co and nico­tine prod­ucts from be­ing sold to mi­nors.

In a no-non­sense farewell speech, U.N. Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­to­nio Guter­res urged glob­al lead­ers Tues­day to re­spond to the defin­ing chal­lenge to­day: Will the world con­tin­ue on its path to frag­men­ta­tion or co­op­er­ate to tack­le the ex­is­ten­tial threats from cli­mate cri­sis, run­away ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and in­ten­si­fy­ing in­equal­i­ties?

A St He­le­na woman has been charged with lar­ce­ny af­ter al­leged­ly ob­tain­ing $70,000 from a per­son who paid for the pur­chase and im­por­ta­tion of a 14-seater Nis­san N350 bus.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the is­land re­mains a safe tourist des­ti­na­tion, de­spite an­oth­er ma­rine ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has signed Air Ser­vices Agree­ments with Pana­ma and Ghana, open­ing the way for strength­ened avi­a­tion links with Latin Amer­i­ca and Africa.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and Pana­ma are ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for greater co­op­er­a­tion in ma­rine re­search, tech­nol­o­gy, en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and the de­vel­op­ment of the blue econ­o­my.

Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers ap­pear set to fi­nal­ly re­ceive the prize mon­ey owed to them from the 2026 cel­e­bra­tions, but some are tak­ing is­sue with the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to dis­trib­ute the pay­ments at a cer­e­mo­ny.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is back­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to con­cen­trate spe­cial op­er­a­tions in Gov­ern­ment-con­trolled con­stituen­cies, say­ing he wants the mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed in his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy.

Teach­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go have re­ceived their long-await­ed back­pay for salaries cov­er­ing 2020 to 2023, ac­cord­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe.