Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Princess Eliz­a­beth Cen­tre, Jan Sir­jus­ingh, has urged young peo­ple to choose pos­i­tive paths, point­ing to the ex­am­ple set by stu­dent char­i­ty founder Liam Chan Pak dur­ing an out­reach and Car­ni­val cheer event at the cen­tre on Fri­day.

A blog­ger and for­mer ra­dio host has been charged with sedi­tion af­ter a post on so­cial me­dia al­leged­ly in­vit­ed for­eign par­ties to tar­get the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Prime Min­is­ter.

The Unit­ed States says Caribbean coun­tries have al­ter­na­tives to Cu­ba’s over­seas med­ical mis­sions, as it re­newed calls to end what it de­scribed as forced labour linked to the pro­gramme and in­sist­ed it has on­ly re­cent­ly raised the is­sue pub­licly.

Land­lords across Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be re­quired to for­mal­ly step in­to the tax net, as down­load­able reg­is­tra­tion forms for the new Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge be­come avail­able from March 1, 2026.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred at 8.45 pm on Feb­ru­ary 5. Res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing loud ex­plo­sions from an area close to where Sook­nanan lived.

Brit­ton passed away on Thurs­day night in the In­ten­sive Care Unit at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

A 17-year-old San Juan girl is one of three peo­ple charged with the mur­der of 25-year-old Sir Ja­mal Ram­per­sad last month.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of em­bark­ing on a hir­ing spree at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) dur­ing its first sev­en months in of­fice, claim­ing the move has in­flat­ed the au­thor­i­ty’s an­nu­al wage bill by an es­ti­mat­ed $60 to $70 mil­lion.

En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the In­di­an Oil Cor­po­ra­tion (IOC) are ex­pect­ed to vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go af­ter the Car­ni­val sea­son to pro­vide tech­ni­cal ad­vice on restart­ing the Pointe-a-Pierre Re­fin­ery.

Pro­test­ers gath­ered out­side the of­fice of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yet again yes­ter­day, call­ing on him to re­sign or face their in­creas­ing wrath over the po­lice killing of Joshua Sama­roo and wound­ing of his wife Ka­ia Sealey.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to be trans­par­ent with the pub­lic and re­veal any ad­di­tion­al ev­i­dence in the po­lice chase and killing of Joshua Sama­roo if it ex­ists.

Rel­a­tives of Michael Ale­jan­dro Es­pana Ram­nath, who was ab­duct­ed while re­turn­ing to his home in Pe­nal on Tues­day night, had not heard from his cap­tors up to last evening, po­lice said.