Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has shared a post from the new­ly cre­at­ed T&T Job Re­cruit­ment Face­book page, which was launched on Oc­to­ber 16, high­light­ing the Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve 2025.

In a clos­er look at the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries’ gen­er­al ad­min­is­tra­tion bud­get for goods and ser­vices, con­tract em­ploy­ment emerges as the most sig­nif­i­cant ex­pen­di­ture item across the three-year span from 2024 to 2026.

Trinidad and To­ba­go au­thor­i­ties are on high alert fol­low­ing a se­cu­ri­ty ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the Unit­ed States Em­bassy to its cit­i­zens, but Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der stressed there is no im­me­di­ate threat to cit­i­zens.

Cas­tel Gan­dol­fo, Italy—Nine­teen-year-old Priyan­ka Lal­la, UNICEF Youth Ad­vo­cate for the East­ern Caribbean, be­came the youngest in­vit­ed speak­er at the pres­ti­gious Rais­ing Hope Con­fer­ence, held at Pope Leo XIV’s Sum­mer Palace to mark the tenth an­niver­sary of Lauda­to Si’.

Pen­sion­er Glo­ria Barnes (not her re­al name) moved in­to her St Joseph Street, Ari­ma, apart­ment six years ago and has al­ready seen her rent in­crease twice.

A messy sit­u­a­tion. That’s how econ­o­mist Prof Patrick Wat­son de­scribed the near bank­rupt­cy of funds in the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of T&T (NIBTT) that led Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo to in­crease the con­tri­bu­tion rates by three per cent next Jan­u­ary. In Jan­u­ary 2027, the rates would al­so go up by an­oth­er three per cent for the work­ing class.

The US strikes on a Venezue­lan boat on Tues­day, which re­sult­ed in two T&T na­tion­als be­ing killed, shows that T&T’s cit­i­zens are be­ing mur­dered by their own al­ly, the Unit­ed States.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) has voiced se­ri­ous con­cern over the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed land­lord sur­charge an­nounced in the 2025 Na­tion­al Bud­get, warn­ing that the mea­sure could in­crease the cost of do­ing busi­ness across cen­tral Trinidad.

Now mourn­ing the death of his son Be­vaughn Joseph, who died af­ter a gas tank ex­plo­sion de­stroyed their home, meat ven­dor Bri­an Joseph says he plans to take le­gal ac­tion against those re­spon­si­ble for the tragedy that al­so left him home­less.

San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion’s (SGRC) Di­vali cel­e­bra­tion, the biggest ever in the East­ern town, came to an abrupt end when po­lice moved in, stat­ing that the time ap­proved for the pro­gramme had ex­pired.

Mem­bers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) have ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of avoid­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed bud­get de­bate by hav­ing low­er-rank­ing MPs an­swer ques­tions in­stead of Cab­i­net min­is­ters.

De­spite the in­sis­tence from Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen that the bud­getary al­lo­ca­tion to PNM-led re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions was sig­nif­i­cant­ly larg­er than the UNC’s cor­po­ra­tions, mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion con­tend that the avail­able fund­ing would bare­ly be enough to cov­er much-need­ed main­te­nance and re­pairs.