Al­though Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Par­lia­ment that of­fi­cers op­er­at­ing in des­ig­nat­ed closed ar­eas “must use” body-worn cam­eras, the Gov­ern­ment’s new­ly in­tro­duced Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill does not make their use manda­to­ry in every cir­cum­stance.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ing op­er­a­tions in des­ig­nat­ed spe­cial zones will be re­quired to wear body cam­eras un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s re­vised Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment’s re­vised Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions) Bill will re­turn to Par­lia­ment with amend­ments to­mor­row and will re­quire on­ly a sim­ple ma­jor­i­ty to pass in the Sen­ate, rather than the three-fifths spe­cial ma­jor­i­ty that was need­ed when the leg­is­la­tion was first in­tro­duced in Jan­u­ary.

Mas­quer­aders head­ing to To­ba­go Car­ni­val are fac­ing a trans­porta­tion night­mare, with fer­ry tick­ets for sev­er­al key dates sold out less than 24 hours af­ter go­ing on sale.

As the Prison Ser­vice con­tin­ues re­leas­ing high-risk de­tainees to­day, a process that be­gan yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she be­lieves law­suits by for­mer de­tainees may not be suc­cess­ful.

Peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) should re­ceive some form of com­pen­sa­tion for the con­di­tions in which they were held, says Pris­ons Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don.

A for­mer de­tainee held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) says the al­le­ga­tions used to de­tain him were “lies” and that he still does not know why he was con­sid­ered a threat.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has shut down spec­u­la­tion that a Cab­i­net reshuf­fle is im­mi­nent, in­sist­ing there will be no changes to her min­is­te­r­i­al line-up “at this time.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is “not wor­ried” about the diplo­mat­ic chal­lenges sur­round­ing her planned meet­ing with Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez at the up­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.

While Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh says the Gov­ern­ment’s Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Amend­ment Bill 2026 does not abol­ish state agency pub­li­ca­tions in news­pa­pers, for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young SC says the bill is a clear sign that the UNC Gov­ern­ment in­tends pub­lish­ing in news­pa­pers “less and less.”

For­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship min­is­ter Dr De­vant Ma­haraj is warn­ing that pro­posed amend­ments to the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) could weak­en gov­ern­ment trans­paren­cy, ac­cus­ing the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion of un­der­min­ing leg­is­la­tion it in­tro­duced more than two decades ago.

A man­u­fac­tur­er’s de­fect in a re­cent­ly in­stalled air-con­di­tion­ing unit at the Ma­ter­ni­ty Ward of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (PoS­GH) has been iden­ti­fied as the cause of yes­ter­day’s evac­u­a­tion af­ter smoke trig­gered the build­ing’s fire alarm sys­tem.