PNM chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les is de­mand­ing an ex­pla­na­tion from the Gov­ern­ment over what he de­scribes as the sud­den with­draw­al of state en­ter­prise spon­sor­ship from the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture’s Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions, warn­ing against the use of pub­lic re­sources to pun­ish cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions.

An­oth­er ap­point­ed mem­ber has quit the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture’s board, with Dr Shane Mo­hammed ac­cus­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion of al­low­ing an un­true claim that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar cut fund­ing for Di­vali Na­gar 2026 to go un­cor­rect­ed.

Park­ing rates at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port are set to in­crease from No­vem­ber 1, with mo­torists fac­ing high­er hourly, dai­ly and month­ly charges.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle has ac­cused the gov­ern­ment of de­lib­er­ate­ly de­lay­ing the restora­tion of elec­tric­i­ty to Beetham Gar­dens, a claim Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has de­nied say­ing safe­ty con­cerns fol­low­ing Sat­ur­day's fire at a TSTT com­pound com­pro­mised elec­tric­i­ty lines in the area.

Four Ram­leela or­gan­i­sa­tions have re­ceived spon­sor­ship of more than $40,000 each from bmo­bile, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to in­crease sup­port for com­mu­ni­ty-based cul­tur­al ac­tiv­i­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is call­ing for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mass res­ig­na­tion of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) board, warn­ing that pro­longed lead­er­ship un­cer­tain­ty could un­der­mine health­care de­liv­ery, work­ers’ rights and pub­lic con­fi­dence.

Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein says that, in the run-up to the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, Pa­lo Seco Agri­cul­tur­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (PSAEL) was used to pave roads and build box drains.

The Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) is aware of a com­mu­nique cir­cu­lat­ed to se­nior prison of­fi­cials out­lin­ing how over­time pay­ments will be han­dled in the fu­ture and has no ob­jec­tion to it, ac­cord­ing to Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Lester Lo­gie.

In fis­cal 2026, the Gov­ern­ment spent $15 mil­lion through the Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (MPAAI) on the con­struc­tion and out­fit­ting of a Tier 4 da­ta cen­tre.

The blood bank at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) is ex­pect­ed to ex­tend its open­ing hours to 8 pm as part of ef­forts to en­cour­age more peo­ple to do­nate blood and meet de­mand for emer­gency med­ical care.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of dis­ap­point­ing the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go through its con­duct dur­ing the re­cent Bud­get de­bate, in­clud­ing its fail­ure to sup­port the Gov­ern­ment’s Bud­get in Par­lia­ment.

Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad has praised the or­gan­is­ers of the Green Ram­leela cel­e­bra­tions for stag­ing an elab­o­rate cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion with­out State fund­ing.