Lo­cal busi­ness­es have op­er­at­ed un­der the strain of or­gan­ised crime and a State of Emer­gency for too long, ac­cord­ing to Bal­dath Ma­haraj, pres­i­dent of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC).

Less than 24 hours af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with Unit­ed States En­er­gy Sec­re­tary Chris Wright, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says glob­al en­er­gy gi­ant Chevron is al­ready knock­ing on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s door.

This coun­try’s rev­enue po­si­tion in­creased last Fri­day by US$4 mil­lion a month as a re­sult of high­er oil prices fol­low­ing the Mid­dle East war – and that sum is in ad­di­tion to US$10 mil­lion in oil rev­enue, which was es­ti­mat­ed ear­li­er last week, says En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) dif­fer from those im­ple­ment­ed dur­ing the 2024 State of Emer­gency un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly in how they ad­dress free­dom of ex­pres­sion and pub­lic safe­ty.

These were among re­ac­tions from present and past politi­cians fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to sign T&T to the Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion.

One day af­ter Trinidad and To­ba­go joined a new­ly es­tab­lished mil­i­tary al­liance led by Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, known as the Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion, re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Garvin Heer­ah says be­ing a sig­na­to­ry to this his­toric event will on­ly reap re­ward for our coun­try.

While the Par­lia­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go was in­formed that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar would en­gage in one-on-one dis­cus­sions with Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Shield of the Amer­i­c­as Sum­mit, it now ap­pears that the in­ter­ac­tion was not a for­mal closed-door meet­ing but rather “an en­gage­ment” just be­fore the of­fi­cial pho­to op­por­tu­ni­ty.

A Flori­da-based Trinidad and To­ba­go di­as­po­ra group is warn­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to be wary of en­ter­ing in­to any mil­i­tary part­ner­ship with Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

A Ch­agua­nas fam­i­ly was left home­less af­ter work­ers, al­leged­ly at­tached to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC), stormed their home and de­stroyed their be­long­ings in what they de­scribe as an “il­le­gal evic­tion.”

All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA) pres­i­dent Cur­tis Dou­glas is breath­ing a sigh of re­lief, fol­low­ing the re­cov­ery of a boat and en­gine which were stolen on Sat­ur­day night at Cour­land Bay.

Hun­dreds of fe­male po­lice of­fi­cers, as well as em­ploy­ees from the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, oth­er min­istries and state agen­cies, turned out to par­tic­i­pate in the In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day (IWD) walk around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

As In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day is com­mem­o­rat­ed, women and girls are be­ing urged to take charge of their health by en­sur­ing they re­ceive the HPV vac­cine and un­der­go reg­u­lar Pap smears to guard against cer­vi­cal can­cer.