Na­tion of Is­lam T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tive Dr David Muham­mad says the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent is­suance of a ter­ror­ist black­list, along with its move to freeze lo­cal as­sets of the three or­gan­i­sa­tions lo­cal­ly, is mere­ly an at­tempt to please the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is deny­ing cul­pa­bil­i­ty over the five-year stag­na­tion of the Buc­coo Reef Ma­rine Park Bill.

“Row­ley must go! Row­ley must go!” thun­dered through the mas­sive au­di­to­ri­um at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence on April 5, 2025.

The Geri­atric So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go (GSTT) brought to­geth­er chil­dren, fam­i­lies, health­care providers and com­mu­ni­ty part­ners for a mul­ti-gen­er­a­tional out­reach pro­gramme held at the Diego Mar­tin North Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on April 11.

The race for lead­er­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil heads in­to its fi­nal week, with for­mer mi­nor­i­ty leader Kelvon Mor­ris tak­ing on ex-To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe for the po­lit­i­cal reins.

A High Court Judge has award­ed a man $35,000 in com­pen­sa­tion, af­ter he was de­nied a show­er for over a week while be­ing de­tained for firearm pos­ses­sion.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion have been strong­ly crit­i­cised over their re­peat­ed fail­ure to abide by con­sec­u­tive rul­ings by judges over re­assess­ing a sec­ondary school teacher for retroac­tive pro­mo­tion. 

The fa­tal shoot­ing of Steve Ghany Ju­nior—killed dur­ing a six-hour do­mes­tic or­deal at his home ear­li­er this month—has be­come a cat­a­lyst for a new na­tion­al push to con­front do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, as a coali­tion of le­gal and men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als move to turn tragedy in­to re­form.

The Gov­ern­ment has moved to sig­nif­i­cant­ly over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s labour and sev­er­ance frame­work, with Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste an­nounc­ing that long-await­ed amend­ments to re­trench­ment leg­is­la­tion have now been laid in Par­lia­ment.

Re­tired work­ers from the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Ltd (MTS) on Fri­day staged a protest out­side the MTS Plaza, Aranguez, call­ing for an­swers on when they will be paid their gra­tu­ity.

Fear now grips sev­er­al fam­i­lies in Kan­hai Trace, South Bar­rack­pore, af­ter a land de­vel­op­er al­leged­ly blocked a wa­ter­course, which res­i­dents fear could turn their com­mu­ni­ty in­to a flood dis­as­ter zone with the next heavy rain­fall.

Po­lice are search­ing for the dri­ver of a van which struck and killed a 30-year-old house­wife in Pe­nal on Sat­ur­day night.