Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is re­ject­ing sug­ges­tions that he at­tempt­ed to in­tim­i­date par­lia­men­tary staff dur­ing last Fri­day’s chaot­ic Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee meet­ing, in­sist­ing in­stead that his ac­tions were aimed at iden­ti­fy­ing in­di­vid­u­als linked to what he be­lieves is a pat­tern of bias against Gov­ern­ment MPs with­in Par­lia­ment.

As de­bate on the Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view to adopt the re­port of the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee con­tin­ued in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day, the pub­lic gallery was filled with vis­i­tors, Gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers and school­child­ren.

Fi­nance Sec­re­tary Petal-Ann Roberts says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is sat­is­fied with its al­lo­ca­tion in the Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view.

Econ­o­mist and for­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, Mar­i­ano Browne, has cau­tioned against any move to al­low the whole­sale ex­change of old $100 ban­knotes, say­ing such a de­ci­sion would raise se­ri­ous ques­tions about un­ex­plained wealth and cor­rup­tion.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie says the Gov­ern­ment will not back down from its crack­down on il­le­gal PH dri­vers, de­spite calls from the Op­po­si­tion for le­nien­cy.

Dis­charged from hos­pi­tal on­ly yes­ter­day, the moth­er of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne will be close­ly mon­i­tored to­day as she bids a fi­nal farewell to her child, rel­a­tives said.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for greater care and pro­tec­tion for the na­tion’s el­der­ly, say­ing se­nior cit­i­zens de­serve to spend their lat­er years in dig­ni­ty and peace, not fear.

To­ba­go ven­dors are com­plain­ing about be­ing priced out of do­ing busi­ness at the new­ly con­struct­ed ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port ter­mi­nal.

The pri­vate air­craft that went miss­ing on Fri­day, af­ter de­part­ing St Vin­cent en route to To­ba­go, has been found.

The fol­low­ing is the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2026 Sup­ple­men­tary Ap­pro­pri­a­tion and Mid-Year Re­view by The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, MP House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of a D'Abadie man who was re­port­ed­ly killed fol­low­ing a do­mes­tic dis­pute on Sun­day night.

The body of an Arou­ca man was found with gun­shot wounds in Pig Farm Road, Carlsen Field yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.