While the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) are pleased with the struc­ture of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Cab­i­net, one Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP is plead­ing for youth de­vel­op­ment to be giv­en more pri­or­i­ty.

The two unions that deal with teach­ers at the pri­ma­ry, sec­ondary and ter­tiary lev­els are pleased with the re­turn of the Min­istry of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing as they be­lieve the task of man­ag­ing all sec­tors ef­fec­tive­ly is too big for one min­istry.

As con­fet­ti blew past the over­grown and un­fin­ished struc­ture of the pro­posed Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege, cheers erupt­ed among scores of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers turned out to wel­come Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s mo­tor­cade in her Siparia con­stituen­cy.

As he pre­pares to en­ter pub­lic of­fice for the first time, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says he is not daunt­ed by the task ahead and looks for­ward to mak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact on crime and se­cu­ri­ty in T&T.

Air Cana­da is of­fi­cial­ly back in the T&T mar­ket, two years af­ter sus­pend­ing the Toron­to-Port of Spain route in­def­i­nite­ly. AC984 touched down at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al just af­ter one am on Sat­ur­day with 156 pas­sen­gers on­board.

The re-es­tab­lish­ment of the Min­istry of Jus­tice has been hailed as a nec­es­sary move to ad­dress the coun­try’s chron­ic ju­di­cial back­log and prison over­crowd­ing, ac­cord­ing to crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad.

Re­pairs are un­der­way at the Matu­ra Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant fol­low­ing a tem­po­rary shut­down caused by ad­verse weath­er and me­chan­i­cal fail­ure, WASA said Sun­day.

A 21-year-old woman was stabbed mul­ti­ple times dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery on the El So­cor­ro walkover on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

A Mar­aval man was found dead in a parked van in Cunu­pia on Sun­day morn­ing, af­ter res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing gun­fire.

For­mer For­eign Af­fairs and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter dur­ing the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship ad­min­is­tra­tion, Dr Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan,  says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must lead with ur­gency, pre­ci­sion, and hu­mil­i­ty—or risk re­peat­ing the same gov­er­nance fail­ures that vot­ers re­ject­ed.

Gun­men shot a 21-year-old taxi dri­ver in Diego Mar­tin ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing, caus­ing him to crash his car while try­ing to es­cape.

The Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain has con­demned an AI-gen­er­at­ed im­age of US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump dressed as the pope, call­ing it “par­tic­u­lar­ly in­sen­si­tive” giv­en the on­go­ing mourn­ing pe­ri­od for Pope Fran­cis.