Hours af­ter in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ing agency Moody’s In­vestors Ser­vice with­drew the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) cred­it as­sess­ment rat­ings, the com­pa­ny said this was not due to fi­nan­cial trou­ble but be­cause it had re­aligned its ex­ter­nal cred­it rat­ing agency en­gage­ments af­ter dis­con­tin­u­ing its re­la­tion­ship with Moody’s on Feb­ru­ary 26, 2026.

Amer­i­can singers Ja Rule (Jef­frey Atkins) and Ashan­ti (Ashan­ti Haynes) land­ed at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port just be­fore mid­day yes­ter­day, bring­ing high spir­its and nos­tal­gic star pow­er to Trinidad ahead of their head­lin­ing slots at to­day’s high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed R&B Brunch Fes­ti­val at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s num­bers will be in­creased from 7,884 of­fi­cers to 10,200 of­fi­cers dur­ing a five-year phased re­cruit­ment pro­gramme, and this will sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove its op­er­a­tional ef­fec­tive­ness, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has promised.

Less than two months af­ter re­duc­ing the over­time rates known as pool at the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), the man­age­ment is now re­vert­ing to the old­er rates.

A man, who spent three weeks in prison af­ter he was mis­tak­en­ly held on a war­rant meant for his old­er cousin with a sim­i­lar name, is now ex­pect­ed to pur­sue a law­suit seek­ing sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion from the State. 

A se­nior mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer has won his ap­peal over on­ly be­ing award­ed min­i­mal com­pen­sa­tion af­ter his pro­mo­tion was ter­mi­nat­ed over is­sues with the per­mis­sion he got to leave his pre­vi­ous role. 

Res­i­dents of the Corinth Hills Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion com­mu­ni­ty in Ste Madeleine yes­ter­day com­plained about de­te­ri­o­rat­ing liv­ing con­di­tions as a re­sult of ir­reg­u­lar garbage col­lec­tion, over­grown grass and pest in­fes­ta­tions.

For­mer Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) of­fi­cers are now ap­peal­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ur­gent­ly in­ter­vene af­ter their pre­vi­ous ap­peals to re­ceive un­paid ben­e­fits have gone unan­swered.

Cana­di­an rap­per Drake has now joined the list of en­ter­tain­ers to sam­ple Denise “Saucy Wow” Bel­fon’s icon­ic song Work, and she is elat­ed.

A Ukrain­ian air­craft de­tained at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port af­ter au­thor­i­ties dis­cov­ered un­de­clared ex­plo­sives on­board has been cleared to leave Trinidad and To­ba­go fol­low­ing a mul­ti-agency in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The Min­istry of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing (MTEST) has wel­comed a de­ci­sion by The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) to not in­crease tu­ition fees at the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.

The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) says there is no short­age of qual­i­fied teach­ers for gov­ern­ment and gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry schools in Trinidad.