Pe­nal busi­ness­man Michael Ale­jan­dro Es­pana Ram­nath has been re­leased by his cap­tors af­ter a ran­som was paid, po­lice have con­firmed.

The moth­er of a 30-year-old North Man­zanil­la man shot and killed by po­lice has re­ject­ed the of­fi­cial ac­count of his death, claim­ing he was tar­get­ed at his home and was al­ready dead be­fore be­ing tak­en to hos­pi­tal.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has ac­knowl­edged con­cerns raised by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), say­ing a for­mal re­sponse ad­dress­ing the time­line for im­ple­ment­ing teach­ers’ new salaries has al­ready been draft­ed, signed and will be de­liv­ered in due course.

Just over a month af­ter the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry said it was work­ing on re­sum­ing the Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAP) for its staff, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says work­ers are frus­trat­ed as no fur­ther up­date has been pro­vid­ed.

The To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) says a com­par­i­son be­tween for­mer PNM au­ton­o­my bills and the con­sti­tu­tion­al arrange­ment in St Kitts and Nevis is “fun­da­men­tal­ly flawed.”

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union has raised con­cerns about TSTT’s new part­ner­ship with so­ca su­per­star Machel Mon­tano, ques­tion­ing how the com­pa­ny can en­ter a high-pro­file en­dorse­ment arrange­ment while cit­ing cash flow lim­i­ta­tions in on­go­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty, WASA, will shut down sup­ply to parts of the Low­er South­west Penin­su­la from Sat­ur­day as it car­ries out emer­gency elec­tri­cal re­pairs at the Savonet­ta Boost­er Sta­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued a yel­low lev­el haz­ardous seas alert for north­ern ex­posed coast­lines of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing north-fac­ing coast­lines of the Gulf of Paria to a less­er ex­tent.

Sea tri­als for the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny are ex­pect­ed to con­clude by the end of Feb­ru­ary, with a reg­u­larised sail­ing sched­ule to be pub­lished this Fri­day, Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our told the Sen­ate to­day.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has ruled out any plan to in­tro­duce leg­is­la­tion re­strict­ing the pub­lic from shar­ing footage of po­lice-in­volved in­ci­dents.

Trinidad and To­ba­go reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to co­op­er­a­tion with the Re­pub­lic of In­dia dur­ing the AI Im­pact Sum­mit 2026 held from 18-20 Feb­ru­ary in In­dia.

Pe­nal busi­ness­man Michael Ale­jan­dro Es­pana Ram­nath has been re­leased by his cap­tors af­ter a ran­som was paid, po­lice con­firmed.