Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to women across Trinidad and To­ba­go, prais­ing their strength, re­silience and con­tri­bu­tions to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment as the coun­try marks In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to women and girls lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly as the coun­try marks In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day 2026.

Gospel artiste Jovon Les-Pierre, known as Jovi Ton, claims he is in­no­cent and was “set up” af­ter tak­ing what he de­scribed as a rou­tine hire taxi job to Wood­brook.

In a his­toric mo­ment, Trinidad and To­ba­go has joined a new­ly es­tab­lished mil­i­tary al­liance led by Unit­ed States (US) Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump known as the Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is seek­ing to as­sure cit­i­zens that the gains made for Trinidad and To­ba­go at the Shield of the Amer­i­c­as meet­ing did not come at the ex­pense of this na­tion’s sov­er­eign­ty.

State-owned Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) has been in­voiced al­most half a mil­lion dol­lars for a three-day re­treat in To­ba­go for act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive Keino Cox and 10 of its ex­ec­u­tives.

For the past two weeks, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk has ex­am­ined the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cruit­ment dri­ve—through Em­ployTT—and its tan­gi­ble im­pact on the state of the coun­try’s un­em­ploy­ment.

For­mer Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is “ac­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing” chal­leng­ing for­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis for lead­er­ship of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil.

“It does not look good, and it does not re­flect well on the con­duct of the busi­ness of Par­lia­ment at a time when there is so much so­cial ten­sion, lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly all over.”

Tem­po­rary Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor Se­nior Coun­sel Lar­ry Lal­la says, de­spite the State of Emer­gency (SoE), cit­i­zens can still protest.

A 74-year-old woman died in a house fire in Mor­vant on Fri­day, af­ter se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures at the prop­er­ty pre­vent­ed neigh­bours from res­cu­ing her.

Quick ac­tion by rel­a­tives and neigh­bours helped save a San Fran­cique home from be­ing de­stroyed by fire on Fri­day, but two broth­ers who live there are now ap­peal­ing for help to re­pair their home.