An elec­tri­cal prob­lem aboard the car­go ves­sel Gold­en Car­ri­er caused pan­ic among some pas­sen­gers on Mon­day as it trav­elled from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing their search for a Venezue­lan woman who was ab­duct­ed from her La Ro­maine home three days ago.

Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has lament­ed the lack of ad­e­quate med­ical equip­ment to ef­fec­tive­ly serve the pub­lic, not­ing that such chal­lenges were one of sev­er­al is­sues the Gov­ern­ment is work­ing to ad­dress, as he re­called in­stances where dif­fer­ent clin­ics would have to share a de­vice.

As the Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill 2026 is ex­pect­ed to be laid in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day, Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors shared their views on the pro­vi­sions con­tained in the pro­pos­al, with some ar­gu­ing that it would al­low com­mu­ni­ties to re­ceive a high­er qual­i­ty of ser­vice, while oth­ers ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of try­ing to re­draw bound­aries in their favour.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion will take place next Mon­day - Bud­get Day - in­stead of the ini­tial­ly an­nounced Oc­to­ber 15 date.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to de­liv­er the 2027 Bud­get next Mon­day, ad­vo­cates are call­ing for tar­get­ed in­vest­ment to help mi­grant chil­dren, peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties, autis­tic peo­ple and chil­dren with learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties ac­cess ed­u­ca­tion, health­care, em­ploy­ment and ba­sic sup­port.

A man who served a 20-year sen­tence for co­caine traf­fick­ing has been award­ed $150,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for de­lays in con­sid­er­ing his ap­pli­ca­tions for a pres­i­den­tial par­don.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad has sug­gest­ed that cit­i­zens can dis­agree on is­sues with­out hat­ing each oth­er. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made an­oth­er ad­just­ment to min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, trans­fer­ring four ma­jor skills and vo­ca­tion­al train­ing agen­cies from Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Prakash Per­sad to Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts.

It hap­pened dra­mat­i­cal­ly in Ch­agua­nas in 2013, when then In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP) coun­cil­lor Faaiq Mo­hammed broke ranks with Jack Warn­er’s fledg­ling par­ty and sided with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Traf­fic light tim­ing at Dock Road near the Hy­att Re­gency along the west­bound lane of Wright­son Road is be­ing blamed for ma­jor traf­fic con­ges­tion dur­ing peak hours.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has con­demned cer­tain me­dia hous­es for giv­ing abu­sive men a plat­form. He made the state­ment on Mon­day night on Mic'd Mat­ters, an on­line THA pro­gramme, as he re­spond­ed to an at­tempt­ed mur­der-sui­cide in Sig­nal Hill and a re­cent vi­ral video show­ing a man as­sault­ing his girl­friend in a car. The al­leged sus­pect in the lat­ter was in­ter­viewed by a ra­dio and tele­vi­sion sta­tion. Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent af­ter the vic­tim filed a re­port.