One of the most im­por­tant con­se­quences of the US and Is­rael war against Iran is the sharp es­ca­la­tion in the in­ter­na­tion­al prices of crude oil as a re­sult the dan­gers as­so­ci­at­ed with at­tempt­ing to ship Mid­dle East­ern crude through the Straits of Hor­muz.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion has be­gun in­to the op­er­a­tions of Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors Ltd’s (PPG­PL) Unit­ed States sub­sidiaries, trig­ger­ing sus­pen­sions, a res­ig­na­tion, and a widen­ing probe in­to how share­hold­er funds were de­ployed in­to loss-mak­ing ven­tures over sev­er­al years.

Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) econ­o­mist Patrick Wat­son says he is “fright­ened” by some of the ac­tions the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion in Port-of-Spain is tak­ing as he not­ed that T&T’s Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is po­si­tion­ing her­self as a faith­ful “dis­ci­ple” of US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

Port-of-Spain has record­ed the most sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in in­fla­tion in Trinidad at the start of 2026, with its rate dou­bling from 0.6 per cent in De­cem­ber 2025 to 1.2 per cent in Jan­u­ary 2026.

The web­site of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice went of­fline ear­li­er this year due to un­paid bills to its ex­ter­nal ser­vice provider, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der said in the Sen­ate on Wednes­day.

The man­age­ment of the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), which is re­spon­si­ble for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope, has be­gun hir­ing new nurs­es to help al­le­vi­ate some of the staffing is­sues caused by sick­out ac­tion from nurs­es cur­rent­ly in the sys­tem.

An in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tor is call­ing for ur­gent Gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion as protests by hun­dreds of nurs­es in­ten­si­fy, warn­ing that de­lays in re­solv­ing the dis­pute could deep­en strain on Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pub­lic health sys­tem.

Five men have been freed of mur­der­ing a cou­ple in Laven­tille af­ter spend­ing al­most a decade on re­mand await­ing tri­al.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing that led to the death of Joshua Sama­roo and the wound­ing of his com­mon-law wife Ka­ia Sealy are still un­der­way, even as Sealy con­tin­ues a long re­cov­ery process fol­low­ing the shoot­ing.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der yes­ter­day re­mained silent on the killing of 11-month-old Jay­den Sut­ton and his fa­ther Joseph Sut­ton, even as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) con­tin­ues.

Some trade unions have en­dorsed the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers’ (NUGFW) agree­ment with the State for a 10 per cent wage in­crease, 60 per cent of which will be paid in non-cash ben­e­fits.

The Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to over­haul Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­ba­tion sys­tem by in­tro­duc­ing “split sen­tenc­ing,” a mea­sure that com­bines jail time with su­per­vised re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, in a bid to re­duce re­peat of­fend­ing and ease prison over­crowd­ing.