Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty pol­i­cy ad­vis­er Pro­fes­sor An­tho­ny Clay­ton is ap­peal­ing to both the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion to set aside their dif­fer­ences and al­low the Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions to be used ef­fec­tive­ly.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has again pledged au­ton­o­my for To­ba­go and al­so in­tro­duced a new di­vi­sion to deal with le­gal and in­ter­gov­ern­men­tal af­fairs.

The re­port on the Com­mis­sion of In­quiry (COI) in­to the col­lapse of the CL Fi­nan­cial em­pire and the Hin­du Cred­it Union will be laid in Par­lia­ment this af­ter­noon.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is mov­ing to­wards a mass ral­ly, even as teach­ers across the coun­try con­tin­ue to wear red in protest over the de­lay in the pay­ment of new salaries.

While garbage col­lec­tion has shown signs of im­prove­ment in parts of Corinth and Union Hall in south Trinidad, res­i­dents say the ne­glect­ed state of Palmiste Park and sur­round­ing ar­eas con­tin­ue to pose se­ri­ous safe­ty and health con­cerns.

If you’re a Trinidad and To­ba­go pass­port hold­er plan­ning to take a trip this year, you may need to add “ap­ply for a visa” to your to-do list.

Three-time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Ki Per­sad has qual­i­fied for the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch semi­fi­nal af­ter a 10-year ab­sence.

The Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) has ini­ti­at­ed an in­ter­nal re­view while po­lice in­ves­ti­gate an in­ci­dent in which a woman was in­jured af­ter part of her body was crushed by one of the cor­po­ra­tion’s bus­es yes­ter­day.

Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke has de­nied claims that li­cens­ing of­fi­cers locked farm­ers in­side the North­ern Whole­sale Mar­ket in Ma­coya ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing dur­ing an ex­er­cise, say­ing the op­er­a­tion was led by po­lice and that his of­fi­cers on­ly pro­vid­ed sup­port.

The son of out­ed Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has vowed that Venezuela will re­main unit­ed de­spite the cap­ture of his fa­ther and the pres­i­dent’s wife by Unit­ed States forces ear­li­er this month.

Ex­perts work­ing to re­solve an elec­tri­cal prob­lem at St Patrick’s New­town Girls’ RC School say the in­sti­tu­tion is ex­pect­ed to re­open on Mon­day, once re­pairs are com­plet­ed as sched­uled.

The Me­dia As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (MATT) is call­ing on News­day’s man­age­ment to be open and trans­par­ent with its em­ploy­ees fol­low­ing the com­pa­ny’s clo­sure.