Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les will host a le­gal clin­ic for ter­mi­nat­ed Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors to­day, as more Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­neys—in­clud­ing for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young—pre­pare to mount a le­gal de­fence on their be­half.

A strong hy­dro­car­bon odour on Fri­day af­ter­noon was the first sign that some­thing was wrong in Bayshore, Mara­bel­la.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) has thrown its full sup­port be­hind the move by the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to arm se­lect off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cers 24 hours a day.

The di­rec­tion of the de­feat­ed Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) will be in fo­cus at to­day’s spe­cial con­ven­tion, when po­lit­i­cal leader-elect Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, the par­ty’s first fe­male leader, is in­stalled in that post at City Hall, Port-of-Spain.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) iden­ti­fied The Palms vil­las as its pre­ferred op­tion, ap­proved the pur­chase of the $19 mil­lion prop­er­ty since Jan­u­ary 2024, se­cured board ap­proval, and even at­tempt­ed to source for­eign cur­ren­cy for the down pay­ment—yet the pub­lic was not for­mal­ly in­formed of the trans­ac­tion un­til a press re­lease is­sued 17 months lat­er, af­ter the prop­er­ty was pur­chased.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ab­stained from vot­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, be­cause they be­lieved it was rushed, not sig­nif­i­cant­ly thought out and was tar­get­ed at one in­di­vid­ual—name­ly MP and for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young.

Venezue­lan hu­man rights ac­tivist Yese­nia Gon­za­lez is now work­ing close­ly with mem­bers of the Venezue­lan com­mu­ni­ty both here and in that coun­try to help iden­ti­fy the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women who were killed and buried in a shal­low grave in Cunu­pia last week.

In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA) leader, Dr Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus, says while the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is paint­ing a pret­ty pic­ture with its $3.7 bil­lion bud­get, the re­al num­bers tell a much dark­er sto­ry about the is­land’s econ­o­my and the fu­ture of its peo­ple.

No fur­ther ac­tion will be tak­en against Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MP Wayne Sturge and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MP Colm Im­bert, fol­low­ing re­cent moves to have each tak­en be­fore Par­lia­ment’s Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee on sep­a­rate mat­ters.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 6.45 pm, Dil­lon Hug­gins, 29, of Moral­do Trace, Up­per San­ta Cruz, was talk­ing to a neigh­bour near his home when he was ap­proached by three gun­men, who opened fire on him be­fore run­ning away through a va­cant lot of land.

The Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Do­minic Smith, is warn­ing the Op­po­si­tion that an in­de­pen­dent au­dit has been or­dered in­to what he de­scribed as a ques­tion­able project un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion that was set to cost tax­pay­ers over USD 60 mil­lion.

To­ba­go po­lice are still search­ing for the ban­dits who stole 77 cas­es of Rude Boy al­co­holic drinks from the Mil­ford 24 Gas Sta­tion in Bon Ac­cord.