An 81-year-old vet­er­an Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­ber has been cleared to par­tic­i­pate in the San Fer­nan­do East Women’s League elec­tions this evening.

Five months af­ter be­ing elect­ed PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil chair­man, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has re­signed.

A 42-year-old man has been charged with sac­ri­lege fol­low­ing an al­leged break-in at a church in La Lune, Moru­ga.

Po­lice have seized a firearm and two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Mal­oney Gar­dens.

Two men have been de­tained and a firearm and cut­lass seized fol­low­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery at a bar in Mara­bel­la ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­aligned min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lios, mov­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for a wide range of Gov­ern­ment pro­grammes, state en­ter­pris­es and oth­er func­tions among mem­bers of Cab­i­net.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day is ques­tion­ing the ra­tio­nale be­hind the lat­est changes to min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, de­scrib­ing the move as a “Cab­i­net re­align­ment” rather than a reshuf­fle.

A mo­tion brought by Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les to de­bate on­go­ing dis­rup­tions in the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­ply col­lapsed in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day, af­ter he failed to for­mal­ly move it be­fore the ex­piry of his al­lot­ted speak­ing time.

Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has shrugged off Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s snip­ing at the fail­ure of his mo­tion in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, and says he’ll re­file the mo­tion to de­bate the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­ply dis­rup­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of ar­ro­gance, claim­ing it is push­ing through ma­jor leg­is­la­tion with­out giv­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and key stake­hold­ers ad­e­quate time for con­sul­ta­tion.

The In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch (ISM) com­pe­ti­tion will re­turn to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cap­i­tal for Car­ni­val 2027 and will ho­n­our the late, leg­endary ca­lyp­son­ian Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co. 

The clo­sure of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Mu­se­um has prompt­ed in­ter­ven­tion from Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin, who says she has di­rect­ed min­istry of­fi­cials to en­gage the in­sti­tu­tion’s lead­er­ship as ef­forts be­gin to ex­plore ways to re­open it.