Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says this coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with its Cari­com neigh­bour, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, re­mains cor­dial de­spite a re­cent dis­pute over prop­er­ties owned by the rel­a­tives of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gonsalves.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has as­sured that Car­ni­val “will con­tin­ue to be one of the great­est shows on earth” and stressed that the move to end fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my was “nev­er a back­room de­ci­sion,” but part of a noise-con­trol man­date that “the peo­ple over­whelm­ing­ly vot­ed for.”

The Tas­sa As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) has come out in sup­port of stricter noise pol­lu­tion con­trols. Pres­i­dent Dr Vi­jay Rai ad­mit­ted that the as­so­ci­a­tion has been re­ceiv­ing re­ports of tas­sa play­ers in­tim­i­dat­ing res­i­dents who com­plain about ex­ces­sive noise.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has be­gun mass screen­ing ex­er­cis­es as it moves ahead with plans to fill 1,100 va­can­cies across sev­er­al op­er­a­tional and tech­ni­cal de­part­ments.

With di­a­betes re­main­ing one of the lead­ing caus­es of death in T&T, the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (DATT) is urg­ing the pub­lic to prac­tise health­i­er lifestyles and pri­ori­tise ear­ly de­tec­tion.

An amend­ed Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Of­fences) Amend­ment Bill 2025, con­cern­ing Jus­tices of the Peace, was passed in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day, with At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie promis­ing to pur­sue leg­isla­tive re­form for bet­ter stan­dards of be­hav­iour on the part of JPs.

The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) is ex­press­ing deep dis­ap­point­ment and frus­tra­tion af­ter MTS es­tate po­lice of­fi­cers, who were an­tic­i­pat­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions start­ing at ten per cent as promised in the Gov­ern­ment’s stat­ed “work­ers’ agen­da”, were in­stead pre­sent­ed with a two per cent of­fer for the 2016–2019 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­od.

The da­ta on var­i­ous crime sta­tis­tics for 2025 was not pub­lished on the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) web­site pri­or to Oc­to­ber, since “there were some is­sues,” ac­cord­ing to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.

Though his life end­ed far too soon, Arvin Williams touched count­less hearts, leav­ing be­hind cher­ished mem­o­ries and a lega­cy that will en­dure for years to come. Many of those mem­o­ries were shared yes­ter­day as fam­i­ly, friends, and well-wish­ers gath­ered at the Church of the As­sump­tion in Port-of-Spain for his fu­ner­al ser­vice.

An in­ci­dent in which a sev­en-year-old pupil of the Gas­par­il­lo Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School was se­ri­ous­ly in­jured may have been ac­ci­den­tal.

The coun­try’s mur­der count con­tin­ued to climb fol­low­ing the killing of a Co­corite man on Thurs­day night.

Fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, a ma­jor hur­ri­cane that se­vere­ly im­pact­ed east­ern Cu­ba, the coun­try is fo­cused on re­cov­ery and dam­age as­sess­ment, ac­cord­ing to Cuban Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and En­vi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Ar­man­do Ro­dríguez Batista.