Five new med­ica­tions have been added to the re­vised Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP) which will pro­vide up­dat­ed treat­ment for more than 300,000 cit­i­zens.

Cuban Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Gus­ta­vo D Veliz Oli­vares, has re­it­er­at­ed his coun­try’s con­dem­na­tion of ter­ror­ism and called for Cu­ba’s re­moval from the Unit­ed States’ list of state spon­sors of ter­ror­ism.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to present its first na­tion­al bud­get since tak­ing of­fice in April, ad­vo­cates are urg­ing the in­clu­sion of mea­sures to sup­port chil­dren with spe­cial needs, mi­grant chil­dren with­out le­gal sta­tus, and vul­ner­a­ble youth.

The un­solved mur­der of teenage foot­baller Mari­ah Seenath on Sep­tem­ber 20 is a painful re­minder that many un­der­priv­i­leged chil­dren in Trinidad and To­ba­go live un­seen among the priv­i­leged, their strug­gles ig­nored un­til tragedy strikes.

The re­lent­less wave of vi­o­lent crimes in Carlsen Field is threat­en­ing its agri­cul­tur­al lifeblood.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is prais­ing teach­ers as “the torch­bear­ers of na­tion-build­ing,” reaf­firm­ing her Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing and em­pow­er­ing ed­u­ca­tors across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Poor eat­ing habits and seden­tary lifestyles are fu­elling an in­crease in di­a­betes cas­es in rur­al ar­eas of south Trinidad.

Trade, In­vest­ment, and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj has urged busi­ness­peo­ple to em­brace ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) as a tool to boost glob­al com­pet­i­tive­ness and cre­ate new op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Sec­re­tary of the Pri­vate Phar­ma­cy Re­tail Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion, Leah Sankers­ingh, says phar­ma­cists have tra­di­tion­al­ly been among the most pas­sive of health­care pro­fes­sion­als, of­ten fo­cus­ing on their cus­tomers while ne­glect­ing their own con­cerns.

The Min­istry of Health has an­nounced the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the re­vised Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 1.

Six sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of cannabis seized dur­ing on­go­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions across the Cen­tral, South­ern, and South West­ern Di­vi­sions on Oc­to­ber 4, 2025.

Two men am­bushed a 47-year-old man be­fore beat­ing and stab­bing him dur­ing an at­tack at Bor­de Narve Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day night.