Trinidad and To­ba­go and af­fect­ed ter­ri­to­ries in the wider Caribbean re­gion are once again be­ing urged to main­tain a fair and trans­par­ent tax sys­tem to un­lock deep­er trade ties and job-cre­at­ing in­vest­ments from the Eu­ro­pean Union.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says Gov­ern­ment has met with Oan­do PLC and has in­formed the com­pa­ny that the process is con­tin­u­ing now that the Re­fin­ery Restart Com­mit­tee has been ap­point­ed.

No one has stepped for­ward to chal­lenge Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for the post of UNC po­lit­i­cal leader as the par­ty gets set to hold its lead­er­ship elec­tion on Au­gust 17.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says it has start­ed pro­cess­ing pay­ments un­der the 2025 School Sup­plies and Book Grant for 20,000 stu­dents at­tend­ing gov­ern­ment and gov­ern­ment-as­sist­ed pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools.

A de­layed ship­ment of Tacrolimus—the es­sen­tial an­ti-re­jec­tion drug for or­gan trans­plant re­cip­i­ents—is ex­pect­ed to ar­rive to­day, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe con­firmed.

The Prime Min­is­ters of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines and An­tigua and Bar­bu­da are call­ing on Trinidad and To­ba­go to share rev­enue col­lect­ed from over­flight fees through the Pi­ar­co Flight In­for­ma­tion Re­gion (FIR), which they ar­gue en­com­pass­es por­tions of their sov­er­eign air­space.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed the ar­rival of 90,000 vials of In­sulin 70/30, al­le­vi­at­ing a tem­po­rary short­age that be­came a full stock­out late last month.

Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cers (SRPs), Mu­nic­i­pal and Tran­sit po­lice of­fi­cers can join the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion and par­tic­i­pate in its in­ter­nal ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al has been sen­tenced in a Flori­da court for smug­gling firearms and am­mu­ni­tion in­to this coun­try, fol­low­ing a 2023 seizure at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

Po­lice are seek­ing the pub­lic’s help in iden­ti­fy­ing a man who was found bound and chopped to death in­side a grassy track at Pe­nal Quinam Road on Mon­day.

Of­fi­cers said the vic­tim was sit­ting on a wall along the street around 9.30 pm when two gun­men walked up and be­gan shoot­ing at him.

Val­sayn wife and moth­er Jankie Karim re­mained in the hands of her kid­nap­pers last night, as po­lice con­tin­ued to in­ves­ti­gate her ab­duc­tion.