Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John has de­fend­ed a $69.3 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion for work­ers re­cruit­ed through the Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve, say­ing the fund­ing cov­ers both wages and ma­te­ri­als for main­te­nance work.

Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed (NFM) has be­come the lat­est ma­jor­i­ty State-owned com­pa­ny to with­draw its spon­sor­ship from this year’s Di­vali Na­gar.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured the pub­lic that the min­istry is work­ing to ad­dress short­ages of drugs un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), say­ing 49 of the pro­gramme’s 52 drug items are cur­rent­ly avail­able.

The Works Min­istry’s Mar­itime Di­vi­sion is warn­ing peo­ple on the To­co side not to use in­for­mal trans­porta­tion to get to this week­end’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val. Par­ty boats are al­so a grave con­cern, Works Min­is­ter Jear­lean John said.

Switch on the air con­di­tion­er, one econ­o­mist says, and every­one else helps pay for it. An­oth­er says fam­i­lies al­ready squeezed by food prices can­not af­ford to pay more.

For­mer South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) di­rec­tor Dr Anand Cha­toor­goon says the au­thor­i­ty’s board has been re­duced to five mem­bers fol­low­ing four res­ig­na­tions, rais­ing ques­tions about whether it can con­tin­ue to func­tion law­ful­ly.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh is urg­ing young peo­ple to em­brace hon­esty, courage, kind­ness and team­work, warn­ing that the choic­es they make to­day will help de­ter­mine the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says the Prae­di­al Lar­ce­ny Squad has made 21 ar­rests and se­cured about six con­vic­tions fol­low­ing 60,000 farm vis­its.

Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed (NFM) has be­come the lat­est ma­jor­i­ty State-owned com­pa­ny to with­draw its spon­sor­ship from this year's Di­vali Na­gar.

Forty-sev­en teach­ers from 20 pri­vate schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go have par­tic­i­pat­ed in a mas­ter­class aimed at help­ing ed­u­ca­tors ad­dress body im­age con­cerns and self-es­teem among young peo­ple.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has of­fi­cial­ly de­clared Sun­day, No­vem­ber 8, as the 2026 pub­lic hol­i­day for Di­vali.

Amalya Burke and Cordell Hinds have emerged as the top per­form­ers in their re­spec­tive age groups at the 11th edi­tion of the More Than Just Tal­ent (MTJT) com­pe­ti­tion, which show­cased the singing, danc­ing and in­stru­men­tal skills of young per­form­ers at the Na­pari­ma Bowl in San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day.