The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has agreed to hold in­ter­nal par­ty elec­tions at the end of June, fol­low­ing a lead­er­ship meet­ing at the par­ty’s Bal­isi­er House, Port-of-Spain head­quar­ters to­day.

New Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John to­day met with the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (UDe­COTT’s} ex­ec­u­tive team as she of­fi­cial­ly as­sumed min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the state agency.

A 40-year-old Spey­side man re­mains in sta­ble con­di­tion at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter a knife at­tack on Sat­ur­day night left him with a gap­ing wound to the ab­domen and his in­ter­nal or­gans ex­posed.

Act­ing ASP Gideon Dick­son has urged po­lice of­fi­cers to up­hold pro­fes­sion­al­ism and re­main fo­cused on their du­ties as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher re­turns to lead the ser­vice fol­low­ing months of un­cer­tain­ty.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der and Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin vis­it­ed the scene of a se­ri­ous road traf­fic col­li­sion in Ari­ma on Mon­day morn­ing that left five peo­ple, in­clud­ing two stu­dents, hos­pi­talised.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s ur­gent as­sis­tance in lo­cat­ing 52-year-old Uag­nan Ramjit.

The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) has pledged to press ahead with its po­lit­i­cal mis­sion, an­nounc­ing in­ter­nal elec­tions for 5 Sep­tem­ber 2025 fol­low­ing its fail­ure to win a seat in the 28 April gen­er­al elec­tion and the res­ig­na­tion of found­ing po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Michael Dowlath has con­demned the shoot­ing of a sec­ondary school stu­dent in Mal­oney as “deeply trou­bling and whol­ly un­ac­cept­able”, as the 15-year-old re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Caribbean po­lice com­mis­sion­ers be­gan a five-day meet­ing here, amidst calls for calls for greater at­ten­tion and sup­port for the men­tal health of Po­lice of­fi­cers and a warn­ing against the glo­ri­fi­ca­tion of crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty be­ing used as tools to se­cure po­lit­i­cal pow­er.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has been re­in­stat­ed as the sub­stan­tive head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and is now await­ing the con­fir­ma­tion let­ter from the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC).

As the height of the rainy sea­son ap­proach­es next month, Wood­land res­i­dents have re­newed their calls for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress per­sis­tent flood­ing in the Oropouche Drainage Basin.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) may have to pay more than $3 mil­lion to 13 con­tract work­ers it fired af­ter the 2021 elec­tions. That’s the fall­out of an In­dus­tri­al Court rul­ing de­liv­ered since April 30, which found the ter­mi­na­tions were un­fair, un­law­ful, and like­ly po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed.