Trinidad and To­ba­go has emerged as a re­gion­al leader in en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, achiev­ing a 78 per cent phase-out of Hy­drochlo­ro­flu­o­ro­car­bons (HCFCs) as of 2025.

The Gov­ern­ment has met with the Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go in a high-lev­el en­gage­ment aimed at strength­en­ing di­a­logue on eco­nom­ic con­di­tions, fi­nan­cial sec­tor sta­bil­i­ty and pol­i­cy co­or­di­na­tion with the bank­ing in­dus­try.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is again call­ing for stronger pow­ers for the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) fol­low­ing the po­lice shoot­ing in­volv­ing Ka­ia Sealy and Joshua Sama­roo.

The Greater Ari­ma Cham­ber of Com­merce has wel­comed the open­ing of the new Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment at the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, de­scrib­ing it as a long-await­ed step for­ward for health­care de­liv­ery in east Trinidad.

Staff of Sagi­cor, their fam­i­lies and en­vi­ron­men­tal part­ner Eco Ti­tans Com­mu­ni­ty plant­ed 185 trees in Ch­aguara­mas on Sat­ur­day as part of the com­pa­ny’s com­mem­o­ra­tive 185 Trees ini­tia­tive.

The Unit­ed King­dom smashed a cen­tu­ry-old tem­per­a­ture record for the sec­ond time in 24 hours on Tues­day as a spring heat wave con­tin­ued to scorch parts of West­ern Eu­rope, trig­ger­ing gov­ern­ment warn­ings about risks to life. Sev­er­al drown­ings were re­port­ed in Britain and France as peo­ple tried to cool down.

Land­lords and rent-col­lect­ing agents now have un­til June 30, 2026, to com­plete manda­to­ry reg­is­tra­tion un­der the Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge af­ter the Min­istry of Fi­nance an­nounced an ex­ten­sion fol­low­ing pub­lic en­gage­ment by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo.

Guyana is mak­ing med­ical his­to­ry on Tues­day by par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ground­break­ing ro­bot­ic car­diac surgery that will be per­formed in that coun­try by a spe­cial­ist based in In­dia.

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics seized dur­ing a se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es car­ried out by po­lice in the North Cen­tral and South­ern Di­vi­sions overnight.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has com­plet­ed ma­jor con­struc­tion works and be­gun tran­si­tion­ing to up­grad­ed pipeline in­fra­struc­ture as part of an on­go­ing As­set In­tegri­ty Man­age­ment Pro­gramme aimed at im­prov­ing op­er­a­tional safe­ty, en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion and sys­tem re­li­a­bil­i­ty.

Af­ter spend­ing near­ly a year on the side­lines with in­jury, West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph says he is ea­ger to re­turn to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et and help lift the re­gion­al team to greater heights.

That is the lat­est ad­vice to mem­bers of the pub­lic from at­tor­ney Criston CJ Williams, who is rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly of Joshua Sama­roo, as emo­tions con­tin­ue to run high over the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s han­dling of the probe in­to his death in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in­ci­dent Jan­u­ary.