The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Na­tion­al Women’s League has come out strong­ly in de­fence of Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, in­sist­ing she will de­cide the fu­ture of Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates “in due course” while ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of hypocrisy and po­lit­i­cal dis­trac­tion.

ARI­ZONA — Even as the Caribbean con­tin­ues to grap­ple with il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, Unit­ed States se­nior ad­vis­er and for­mer jour­nal­ist CJ Kara­mar­gin has con­firmed the US is strength­en­ing and ex­pand­ing sec­tions of its bor­der wall to curb il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, while al­so main­tain­ing sys­tems to care for mi­grants and ad­dress hu­man­i­tar­i­an needs.

May­or of the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion Ake­li­ah Glas­gow-Warn­er is rais­ing con­cerns over se­vere traf­fic dis­rup­tion and in­dis­crim­i­nate park­ing caused by a large-scale med­ical out­reach ini­tia­tive in Diego Mar­tin yes­ter­day.

Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen is de­fend­ing the state com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to end its 21-year re­la­tion­ship with in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency Moody’s, say­ing the move does not rep­re­sent a re­treat from trans­paren­cy or in­de­pen­dent scruti­ny.

ARI­ZONA — As the Unit­ed States pre­pares for a surge in glob­al trav­el ahead of the up­com­ing FI­FA World Cup, of­fi­cials say stronger col­lab­o­ra­tion across agen­cies and coun­tries is crit­i­cal to com­bat­ing pass­port and visa fraud, which of­ten links to transna­tion­al crim­i­nal net­works.

Four more sus­pects have been de­tained by po­lice fol­low­ing a po­lice drag­net in Good­wood, To­ba­go, on Sun­day night, as the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice con­tin­ued to try to bring clo­sure to the case of miss­ing tod­dler An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza.

There are fresh calls for changes to the laws gov­ern­ing lo­cal gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, as the de­fec­tion of for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) con­tin­ues to cre­ate fric­tion with­in the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (SBC) led by May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo.

Venezuela’s For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Yván Gil is de­mand­ing in­for­ma­tion from Trinidad and To­ba­go about the re­cent oil spill that his gov­ern­ment in­sists orig­i­nat­ed from Trinidad, as well as com­pen­sa­tion for the fall­out from it.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is “the last one to talk about ques­tion­able char­ac­ters” with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) ranks.

Women in Ac­tion for the Needy and Des­ti­tute (WAND) Foun­da­tion opened its 2026 fundrais­ing sea­son on Sat­ur­day with its Bub­bles & Benev­o­lence – A Tea Par­ty Af­fair at the new­ly opened Le Rêve at C3, Corinth, San Fer­nan­do.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – The 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) group­ing has ex­pressed “se­ri­ous con­cern” over the con­tin­ued hos­til­i­ties in the Mid­dle East, marked by mil­i­tary ac­tion in the Strait of Hor­muz.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty says it re­mains com­mit­ted to tack­ling school vi­o­lence at all lev­els.