In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert, Pro­fes­sor Andy Knight, is warn­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar may be “hurt­ing” Trinidad and To­ba­go’s long-term diplo­mat­ic in­ter­ests by align­ing too close­ly with Don­ald Trump, as he cau­tioned that the US leader could soon be­come a “lame duck” pres­i­dent.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is set­ting its sights on the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions, and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing cit­i­zens to pre­pare for the polls sched­uled for lat­er this year, as she gave Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar a low per­for­mance rat­ing in her first year in Gov­ern­ment.

For yet an­oth­er Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) event, for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley was a no-show.

For the sec­ond time this month, a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee was abrupt­ly sus­pend­ed, with Guardian Me­dia un­der­stand­ing the is­sue was the pres­ence of em­bat­tled Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that com­pre­hen­sive se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments are in place for the Point Fortin Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions this week­end.

The Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s lat­est re­port has high­light­ed the State’s con­tin­ued re­liance on con­tract and short-term em­ploy­ment along­side short­com­ings in pol­i­cy and com­pli­ance, point­ing out that Gov­ern­ment spent more than $1.79 bil­lion on tem­po­rary staffing arrange­ments across the pub­lic ser­vice in 2025.

The Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) has been blocked from mak­ing good on its threat to evict a group of ven­dors from the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) at the end of this month.

Dis­rup­tions were re­port­ed at sev­er­al pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties on the first day of “to­tal nurs­ing” in­dus­tri­al ac­tion, in­clud­ing at the Barataria Health Cen­tre and the tem­po­rary scal­ing down of ser­vices at the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of the Mt Hope Women’s Hos­pi­tal.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has moved to ad­dress on­go­ing wa­ter sup­ply dis­rup­tions in Cas­tara, To­ba­go, fol­low­ing a protest by res­i­dents yes­ter­day morn­ing over the pro­longed sit­u­a­tion.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has be­gun a se­ries of na­tion­wide clean-up and de­silt­ing ex­er­cis­es aimed at re­duc­ing the risk of flood­ing ahead of the rainy sea­son, ac­cord­ing to Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

A man ac­cused of mur­der based sole­ly on an al­leged jail­house con­fes­sion has been freed af­ter spend­ing 16 years on re­mand.

A for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cruit has been ac­quit­ted of rape and griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault charges.