Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle has de­scribed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as an “old, se­nile, wicked and evil woman drunk with pow­er,” ac­cus­ing her of pur­su­ing a racist and apartheid agen­da fol­low­ing her lat­est pub­lic at­tack against him.

Ka­ia Sealy has asked that her bail con­di­tions be amend­ed so that she can live with her sis­ter.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor An­tho­ny Vieira has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s lim­it­ed par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Sen­ate’s 2027 Bud­get de­bate, warn­ing that its par­lia­men­tary ma­jor­i­ty does not re­move its re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to jus­ti­fy how it in­tends to spend bil­lions of dol­lars in pub­lic funds.

Three peo­ple re­mained in po­lice cus­tody yes­ter­day as in­ves­ti­ga­tors con­tin­ued prob­ing Sat­ur­day’s fire at the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) com­pound in Laven­tille, with fur­ther in­ter­views and a re­view of se­cu­ri­ty cam­era and so­cial me­dia footage ex­pect­ed to help es­tab­lish how many peo­ple were in­volved.

The con­tro­ver­sy over fund­ing for Di­vali Na­gar 2026 has re­newed calls for a clear na­tion­al cul­tur­al pol­i­cy, amid dif­fer­ing views on how the Gov­ern­ment should sup­port cul­tur­al and re­li­gious events and whether such fund­ing should be guar­an­teed or sub­ject to con­di­tions.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has re­ject­ed al­le­ga­tions that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar or her Gov­ern­ment sought to po­lit­i­cal­ly vic­timise the or­gan­i­sa­tion by with­hold­ing fund­ing for Di­vali Na­gar 2026, fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of NCIC di­rec­tor Dr Shane An­tho­ny Mo­hammed.

To­co boat op­er­a­tors are up­set fol­low­ing a crack­down on pirogues mak­ing the one-hour trip to To­ba­go.

A year be­fore the con­tro­ver­sy over fund­ing and spon­sor­ship for Di­vali Na­gar 2026, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath had al­leged that the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture’s premis­es had been used as a base to un­der­mine Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Tourism Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett is urg­ing taxi dri­vers and oth­er stake­hold­ers to act pro­fes­sion­al­ly and cour­te­ous­ly at all times, fol­low­ing a vi­ral video show­ing a dri­ver ver­bal­ly abus­ing a fe­male pas­sen­ger.

At­tor­ney-at-law and for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer Tara­dath Singh was shot dead in Char­lieville last evening.

Those were the heart­felt words of cen­te­nar­i­an Winifred John, who cel­e­brat­ed her 104th birth­day yes­ter­day with a prayer ser­vice and a get-to­geth­er with fam­i­ly and friends at her home in Reser­voir Hill, Point Fortin.

A San Fer­nan­do se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer who spent near­ly three decades await­ing the out­come of a crim­i­nal case be­fore be­ing ac­quit­ted has sued the State for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.