Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has con­demned the Gov­ern­ment’s Oc­to­ber 2025 na­tion­al re­cruit­ment dri­ve as a “farce” and “pub­lic­i­ty stunt,” as she not­ed the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion had hired a mere 1,801 peo­ple de­spite promis­ing 20,000 jobs.

One Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ty is call­ing for greater na­tion­al recog­ni­tion of its con­tri­bu­tion to T&T.

A man from Ari­ma, who was freed of a dou­ble mur­der due to pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al de­lays be­fore be­ing re­ar­rest­ed and recharged last year, has been freed again.

As Mus­lims in T&T be­gin wel­com­ing the holy month of Ra­madan, fam­i­lies of de­tained cit­i­zens in Syr­i­an refugee camps are call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to up­hold promis­es she made be­fore last year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions to bring their rel­a­tives home - es­pe­cial­ly fol­low­ing a re­cent Hu­man Rights Watch (HRW) re­port stat­ing that those in the camps are in dan­ger.

Well-wish­es con­tin­ue to pour in fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment by for­mer chut­ney so­ca monarch Ken­neth Sal­ick of his poor health, as he bat­tles kid­ney fail­ure.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar should en­ter Cari­com’s 50th con­fer­ence in St Kitts to­mor­row as a re­gion­al stateswoman - not as a com­bat­ant - and use the lan­guage of uni­ty, says for­mer For­eign Af­fairs min­is­ter Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan says there is no con­flict in her role as a di­rec­tor of the Cen­tral Bank of T&T (CBTT) and in her role as a week­ly news­pa­per colum­nist writ­ing com­men­tary which fo­cus­es on the coun­try’s de­vel­op­men­tal is­sues, par­tic­u­lar­ly di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion.

Stealth Tech’s Re­turn of the Red In­di­ans and the House of Jaqui’s Come Fly with Me have cap­tured the cov­et­ed Se­nior and Ju­nior Band of the Year ti­tles, re­spec­tive­ly, in Ch­agua­nas for Car­ni­val 2026, fol­low­ing a keen­ly con­test­ed com­pe­ti­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to­day opens Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tion nom­i­na­tions for 70 seats held by the rul­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment - while Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will ad­vise in due course when the UNC will start their process, says Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kadi­jah Ameen.

Cli­mate En­voy of the Pres­i­dent of the UN Gen­er­al As­sem­bly, Pro­fes­sor Ka­mal Amakrane, says adap­ta­tion must take place at a lo­cal lev­el if the world is to make se­ri­ous progress in tack­ling the chal­lenges of cli­mate change. His state­ment, though not con­nect­ed, came the same week the En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency in the Unit­ed States planned to re­peal its own find­ings that green­house gas­es like car­bon diox­ide and methane are heat­ing the earth and that warm­ing threat­ens pub­lic health and wel­fare. The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s de­ci­sion strikes at the heart of the cli­mate fight.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­vit­ed Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to ac­com­pa­ny her con­tin­gent for the Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing in St Kitts and Nevis, from Feb­ru­ary 24-27. At a vir­tu­al me­dia con­fer­ence on Sun­day, Au­gus­tine said he has ac­cept­ed the in­vi­ta­tion and will en­gage lo­cal of­fi­cials on the is­lands to get a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of their gov­er­nance struc­ture.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said To­bag­o­ni­ans' pa­tience are "right­ful­ly run­ning out" as the dis­rup­tion to the car­go ser­vice is now a mat­ter of se­ri­ous con­cern. On Feb­ru­ary 2, Au­gus­tine ap­pealed to the pub­lic for "grace and pa­tience" amid the tran­si­tion from the Cabo Star to the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny.