A par­lia­men­tary probe in­to al­leged cor­rup­tion in the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sec­tor is in­ten­si­fy­ing, with the com­mit­tee seek­ing to sum­mon for­mer Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram to an­swer claims he breached the law, while al­so or­der­ing a search of Min­istry of Health servers for email ev­i­dence of pos­si­ble favouritism.

The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion says a surge of new de­clar­ants fol­low­ing the April 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion played a ma­jor role in a sharp drop in com­pli­ance among fil­ings of in­tegri­ty in pub­lic life forms.

The fu­ture of one of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s most icon­ic hos­pi­tal­i­ty land­marks has be­come the lat­est flash­point in a bit­ter war of words be­tween the Op­po­si­tion and the sit­ting ad­min­is­tra­tion.

All sys­tems are in place for the smooth ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions, with 17,937 stu­dents set to sit the test to­day.

Shelly Dass has de­nied wrong­do­ing or po­lit­i­cal nepo­tism in her hir­ing as a con­sul­tant at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny, and has ini­ti­at­ed pre-ac­tion le­gal steps over what she says are defam­a­to­ry claims pub­lished about her earn­ings.

The fu­ture of Caribbean re­gion­al­ism will be one of the hot top­ics to take cen­tre stage at this year’s Bo­cas Lit Fest. The event, which runs from April 30 to May 3, was launched yes­ter­day at NALIS in Port-of-Spain with pro­gramme di­rec­tor Nicholas Laugh­lin re­veal­ing this year’s theme: All To­geth­er Now.

Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has crit­i­cised For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers over his fail­ure to re­spond to a se­ries of par­lia­men­tary ques­tions on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has is­sued a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry re­gard­ing gath­er­ings and protests in the vicin­i­ty of po­lice sta­tions. The re­lease, dat­ed 25 March 2026, em­pha­sis­es that all pub­lic as­sem­blies must com­ply with the law, re­main peace­ful, and avoid ob­struct­ing po­lice op­er­a­tions or threat­en­ing pub­lic safe­ty.

A poul­try farm­ing project de­signed to give young adults with dis­abil­i­ties re­al job skills and in­come op­por­tu­ni­ties is now up and run­ning at the La­dy Ho­choy South Home in Gas­par­il­lo.

Flow Trinidad fo­cused its In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day ac­tiv­i­ties on com­mu­ni­ty sup­port, with its Project Em­pow­er­HER do­na­tion dri­ve de­liv­er­ing es­sen­tial sup­plies to women and chil­dren in need.

Three sus­pects are in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to lar­ce­ny and rob­bery re­ports in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion this week.

A man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter of­fi­cers re­cov­ered stolen cheese dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in the Tacarigua dis­trict on Tues­day.