Dairy farmer John Lennard is hop­ing the Gov­ern­ment comes up with a so­lu­tion to keep them all gain­ful­ly em­ployed, af­ter Nestlé an­nounced it had be­gun a strate­gic re­view of its op­er­a­tions in T&T, in­clud­ing ex­plor­ing the pos­si­ble sale of its dairy and juices busi­ness.

Op­po­si­tion MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is ques­tion­ing Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain Unit­ed King­dom bar­ris­ters in the le­gal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing Do­minic and Genevieve Hadeed be­fore any crim­i­nal charges have been laid, while a se­nior at­tor­ney has de­fend­ed the move as rou­tine in com­plex cas­es re­quir­ing spe­cial­ist ex­per­tise.

The T&T Prison Ser­vice is in­ten­si­fy­ing its push to trans­form the coun­try’s prison sys­tem from one fo­cused pri­mar­i­ly on in­car­cer­a­tion to one cen­tred on cor­rec­tion, re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and rein­te­gra­tion, Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Car­los Cor­raspe says.

Every stu­dent en­ter­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) from Sep­tem­ber will grad­u­ate with more than a de­gree. They will al­so be ex­pect­ed to leave with a deep­er un­der­stand­ing of who they are, where they come from and the coun­try they will one day help shape.

The Venezue­lan Em­bassy in T&T con­tin­ues to urge con­cerned cit­i­zens and in­di­vid­u­als to sup­port its re­lief dri­ve, fol­low­ing the Galleon’s Pas­sage ar­rival in Venezuela last Fri­day with hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid for that coun­try’s earth­quake-hit vic­tims.

Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence did not ap­pear to sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­flu­ence vot­er be­hav­iour or the out­come of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, but a re­searcher is warn­ing that with­out reg­u­la­tion, AI-gen­er­at­ed po­lit­i­cal con­tent could be­come a ma­jor threat by the next elec­tion cy­cle.

For­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young area ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of us­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters to di­vert pub­lic at­ten­tion from what they say are more press­ing na­tion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing vi­o­lent crime, the for­eign ex­change short­age, eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, Point Lisas plant clo­sures, grow­ing debt and Trinidad and To­ba­go's ex­clu­sion from dis­cus­sions on Venezue­lan gas.

Sen. Lind­sey Gra­ham, one of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s clos­est al­lies in Con­gress who trav­eled the globe to ad­vo­cate for a more ag­gres­sive U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy, has died af­ter a “brief and sud­den ill­ness,” his of­fice said. He was 71.

A heat­ed ar­gu­ment be­tween two men in Va­len­cia es­ca­lat­ed in­to a cut­lass at­tack on Fri­day af­ter­noon, leav­ing one man with se­ri­ous in­juries and an­oth­er in po­lice cus­tody.

Statu­to­ry re­ports from the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency show the State in­ter­cept­ed over two mil­lion calls and da­ta be­tween 2018 and 2023, but none of the re­ports re­viewed or pub­lic state­ments record­ed a con­vic­tion aris­ing from crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings in which in­ter­cept­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions were used.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has de­scribed le­gal pro­ceed­ings for it to dis­close the fi­nanc­ing for the ren­o­va­tion and con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain as a po­lit­i­cal witch hunt.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is in­sist­ing that the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fund­ing of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters is be­ing con­duct­ed in­de­pen­dent­ly and has noth­ing to do with pol­i­tics. He is urg­ing the pub­lic to al­low in­ves­ti­ga­tors and the courts to car­ry out their du­ties with­out po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.