With just $700,000 in State fund­ing to stage Car­ni­val in the south­ern city, the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion is tight­en­ing its belt, scal­ing back cel­e­bra­tions and can­celling the for­mal launch this year.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a pro­tract­ed le­gal dis­pute with a con­trac­tor over the ter­mi­na­tion of a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar pipe-lay­ing con­tract.

Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man Pe­ter Kan­hai says there were no dis­cus­sions with or­gan­is­ers of the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on (USC) be­fore the 2026 edi­tion of the com­pe­ti­tion was shelved due to a lack of fund­ing.

Singing ca­lyp­so from an ear­ly age and now the reign­ing Ch­agua­nas Ca­lyp­so King, Kabeem Gra­ham is step­ping in­to the big­ger leagues as a Young Kings fi­nal­ist, with hopes of mak­ing it to the Skin­ner Park Kaiso Fi­es­ta are­na.

The Gov­ern­ment will be­gin reg­is­ter­ing all un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants in Trinidad and To­ba­go from next week Fri­day un­der a new Mi­gra­tion Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der an­nounced to­day.

The rapid growth of the ready to drink mar­ket is be­ing seen as a lane of op­por­tu­ni­ty for An­gos­tu­ra in both the lo­cal and re­gion­al mar­ket.

Rio Claro moth­er Kellyann Lemessy was am­bushed and killed in her car as she ar­rived home just be­fore noon to­day.

Ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Car­ni­val Cen­tre can now ac­cept dig­i­tal pay­ments fol­low­ing the roll­out of a point-of-sale dis­tri­b­u­tion ini­tia­tive by the Na­tion­al Pay­ment and In­no­va­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion and tak­en is­sue with re­cent com­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that the rhetoric and the law it­self could deep­en di­vi­sion and un­der­mine the rights of law abid­ing cit­i­zens.

Bran­don Lal­be­har­ry has been grant­ed $400,000 bail on a manslaugh­ter charge aris­ing from the al­leged killing of his fa­ther.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing cit­i­zens to brace for a pos­si­ble in­crease in elec­tric­i­ty rates, which she says could re­sult from the pend­ing nat­ur­al gas price hike an­nounced by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

If Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion Zones (ZOSO) Bill is geared to­wards get­ting rid of peo­ple who have AK-47 and Galil au­to­mat­ic as­sault weapons, the fact that peo­ple’s con­sti­tu­tion­al rights will be tar­get­ed “is a small price to pay,” says De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.