Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tists claim they were de­nied ap­proval to host a planned march in San Fer­nan­do, ini­tial­ly be­liev­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) may have been a fac­tor.

Records ob­tained un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act re­veal that the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter host­ed a $160,135 Christ­mas staff event at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, even as min­istries were asked to lim­it fes­tive spend­ing. A sec­ond Christ­mas event, de­scribed as a “sup­per”, how­ev­er, was fi­nanced from the pro­ceeds of a pri­or tick­et­ed din­ner, at no cost to the State.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) for re­view­ing the me­dia’s broad­cast of his “jamette” com­ment, ques­tion­ing why the reg­u­la­tor had not act­ed dur­ing past po­lit­i­cal con­tro­ver­sies.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has high­light­ed the free­dom of re­li­gious ob­ser­vances en­joyed in Trinidad and To­ba­go com­pared to oth­er parts of the world while ex­tend­ing Eid-ul-Fitr greet­ings to the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.

Mus­lim cler­ic Imam Rasheed Karim has called for greater eq­ui­ty in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of na­tion­al re­sources, say­ing Mus­lims in Trinidad and To­ba­go should re­ceive their “fair share of the na­tion­al pie.”

For­mer Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Nizam Baksh is urg­ing world lead­ers to pur­sue peace, as Mus­lims in Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brate Eid fol­low­ing the holy month of Ra­madan.

Amid wide­spread al­le­ga­tions, Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA), Nigel Tenia, claimed that his mur­dered friend and busi­ness as­so­ciate, Dan­ny Guer­ra, was a fi­nancier of To­co/San­gre Grande can­di­date Wayne Sturge in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Sift­ing through charred doc­u­ments be­neath the rub­ble of her burned home, Al­li­son Mc­Carthy is now left try­ing to piece her life back to­geth­er af­ter a fire—be­lieved to be ar­son—re­duced her Siparia house to ash­es, leav­ing her, her com­mon-law hus­band and their five chil­dren home­less.

A po­lice of­fi­cer, who was shot in his hand while en­ter­ing a house to ar­rest a sus­pect in 2018, has lost his law­suit seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion for the in­jury.

Res­i­dents of Mara­bel­la are ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing the re­open­ing of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery as the Gov­ern­ment ad­vances talks with a slate of in­ter­na­tion­al and re­gion­al in­vestors, rais­ing cau­tious op­ti­mism that South Trinidad could be on the cusp of long-await­ed eco­nom­ic re­vival.

If you think the war for oil is bad, wait till you see the war for wa­ter. The world is go­ing wa­ter-bank­rupt, ac­cord­ing to a UN re­port pub­lished in Jan­u­ary. Glob­al­ly, hu­mans are us­ing wa­ter at a faster rate than na­ture can re­plen­ish it through rain or snow.

Me­dia prac­ti­tion­ers from across the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered for a work­shop ti­tled “Re­port­ing Cli­mate Im­pacts in a Cli­mate Jus­tice Con­text” last Wednes­day. The event was host­ed by the Me­dia In­sti­tute of the Caribbean and Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean.