De­spite leav­ing his job at a pop­u­lar restau­rant last week, San Fer­nan­do fa­ther Ken Wilkin­son was prepar­ing to start his own busi­ness, de­ter­mined to pro­vide for his daugh­ters and take con­trol of his fu­ture.

More than a year af­ter he sur­vived a kid­nap­ping or­deal, Ch­agua­nas teacher and fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Ko­mal Ma­haraj has again been re­port­ed miss­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has lament­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s wors­en­ing brain drain, dri­ven by crime and oth­er fac­tors, as she vowed to strength­en ties with cit­i­zens liv­ing and work­ing abroad.

A date for pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2025/2026 Bud­get is like­ly to be an­nounced this week - and it’s tipped to be an Oc­to­ber 6 date, ac­cord­ing to Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

De­spite con­cerns ex­pressed by her par­ty’s Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer (PRO), Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she has no is­sue with Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les at­tend­ing side meet­ings dur­ing the high-lev­el week of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) in New York.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says a con­tract for the pro­vi­sion of 3,000 body cam­eras was scrapped due to in­flat­ed costs.

The fam­i­ly of 20-year-old Chan­dani Ram­lal, who was di­ag­nosed ear­li­er this year with ar­te­ri­ove­nous mal­for­ma­tion (AVM), is thank­ing the pub­lic for their sup­port, while ap­peal­ing for con­tin­ued as­sis­tance as she now awaits fur­ther treat­ment abroad.

Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots po­lit­i­cal leader Wat­son Duke is mourn­ing the death of his fa­ther, Wadsworth Duke, who died at the age of 91 yes­ter­day.

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to re­fo­cus its ef­forts on sourc­ing body-worn cam­eras (BWCs) for po­lice of­fi­cers, in a bid to en­sure a high­er stan­dard of ac­count­abil­i­ty and trans­paren­cy in dai­ly polic­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

The man­ag­er of the Fos­ter Care Unit at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go is rais­ing a red flag over the low rate of ap­pli­cants for fos­ter care.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo says there is need for a re­view and ad­just­ment of the Con­tain­er Ex­am­i­na­tion Sta­tion (CES) fees at T&T’s ports of en­try.

Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and chair­man of the Stand­ing Or­ders Com­mit­tee, Jagdeo Singh, says he will con­vene a meet­ing of the com­mit­tee to al­low full par­tic­i­pa­tion from all mem­bers on the is­sue of the pro­ce­dure to be fol­lowed dur­ing the Ques­tions for the Prime Min­is­ter Seg­ment of House sit­tings.