Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says the US Ma­rine Corps 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit (MEU) will be com­ing to this coun­try to take part in mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cis­es from No­vem­ber 16 to 21 with the lo­cal De­fence Force.

The Bo­li­var­i­an Al­liance for the Peo­ples of Our Amer­i­ca (AL­BA-TCP) has con­demned the re­cent mil­i­tary buildup by the Unit­ed States in the Caribbean, warn­ing it could “desta­bilise” the re­gion.

Two mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion are rais­ing sev­er­al ques­tions about the Gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment of joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es with the Unit­ed States 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment was un­able to pro­vide an up­date on how yes­ter­day’s cau­cus went, even as the par­ty con­sid­ers whether to ask the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion to in­ves­ti­gate Hous­ing Min­is­ter Anil Roberts.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says this coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with its Cari­com neigh­bour, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, re­mains cor­dial de­spite a re­cent dis­pute over prop­er­ties owned by the rel­a­tives of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gonsalves.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has as­sured that Car­ni­val “will con­tin­ue to be one of the great­est shows on earth” and stressed that the move to end fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my was “nev­er a back­room de­ci­sion,” but part of a noise-con­trol man­date that “the peo­ple over­whelm­ing­ly vot­ed for.”

The Tas­sa As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TATT) has come out in sup­port of stricter noise pol­lu­tion con­trols. Pres­i­dent Dr Vi­jay Rai ad­mit­ted that the as­so­ci­a­tion has been re­ceiv­ing re­ports of tas­sa play­ers in­tim­i­dat­ing res­i­dents who com­plain about ex­ces­sive noise.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has be­gun mass screen­ing ex­er­cis­es as it moves ahead with plans to fill 1,100 va­can­cies across sev­er­al op­er­a­tional and tech­ni­cal de­part­ments.

With di­a­betes re­main­ing one of the lead­ing caus­es of death in T&T, the Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (DATT) is urg­ing the pub­lic to prac­tise health­i­er lifestyles and pri­ori­tise ear­ly de­tec­tion.

An amend­ed Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Of­fences) Amend­ment Bill 2025, con­cern­ing Jus­tices of the Peace, was passed in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day, with At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie promis­ing to pur­sue leg­isla­tive re­form for bet­ter stan­dards of be­hav­iour on the part of JPs.

The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) is ex­press­ing deep dis­ap­point­ment and frus­tra­tion af­ter MTS es­tate po­lice of­fi­cers, who were an­tic­i­pat­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions start­ing at ten per cent as promised in the Gov­ern­ment’s stat­ed “work­ers’ agen­da”, were in­stead pre­sent­ed with a two per cent of­fer for the 2016–2019 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­od.

The da­ta on var­i­ous crime sta­tis­tics for 2025 was not pub­lished on the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) web­site pri­or to Oc­to­ber, since “there were some is­sues,” ac­cord­ing to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der.