The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has launched a Hall of Fame to recog­nise the play­ers and ad­min­is­tra­tors whose con­tri­bu­tions have helped shape the re­gion­al T20 tour­na­ment since its in­cep­tion in 2013.

Min­is­ter of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Sad­dam Ho­sein has re­ject­ed at­tempts to pit slav­ery against in­den­ture­ship, say­ing both sys­tems in­flict­ed suf­fer­ing on gen­er­a­tions of peo­ple and should not be treat­ed as com­pet­ing his­tor­i­cal ex­pe­ri­ences.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to hold a press con­fer­ence, say­ing she has ques­tions to an­swer on a range of is­sues fac­ing the coun­try.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of pur­su­ing what he de­scribed as "hate­ful and vin­dic­tive poli­cies", while warn­ing that her ac­tions threat­en Trinidad and To­ba­go's so­cial sta­bil­i­ty.

The an­nu­al Pride Pa­rade wound through the streets of St Clair and Wood­brookyes­d­ter­day, car­ry­ing a mes­sage of vis­i­bil­i­ty, in­clu­sion and re­mem­brance as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s LGBTQIA+ com­mu­ni­ty marked the close of Pride Month un­der the theme, “One Jour­ney, Many Sto­ries.”

PNM deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu and Op­po­si­tion whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les have ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of “run­ning” from pub­lic crit­i­cism af­ter she was ab­sent from Sat­ur­day’s African Eman­ci­pa­tion Day cel­e­bra­tions.

Trinidad and To­ba­go-born US Staff Sergeant An­gel Ram­per­sad, who was killed in Jor­dan last month, was laid to rest on Fri­day fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al at­tend­ed by New York Gov­er­nor Kathy Hochul, New York City May­or Zohran Mam­dani, US Brigadier Gen­er­al Glen Henke and oth­er dig­ni­taries.

Con­cerns over bu­reau­crat­ic de­lays, an un­opened state fa­cil­i­ty and the slow de­liv­ery of pub­lic as­sis­tance to vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens were among the is­sues raised by Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) po­lit­i­cal leader and Ari­ma MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les dur­ing a thanks­giv­ing ser­vice mark­ing the 138th an­niver­sary of the roy­al char­tered bor­ough.

Scrap Iron Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Al­lan Fer­gu­son says the in­dus­try wel­comes the Gov­ern­ment’s plan to re­open Trinidad and To­ba­go’s steel mill, but warned that scrap met­al ex­ports must con­tin­ue to en­sure com­pe­ti­tion and pro­tect deal­ers from un­fair pric­ing.

Car deal­ers im­port­ing mild hy­brid ve­hi­cles will con­tin­ue to ben­e­fit from tax ex­emp­tions af­ter Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo in­ter­vened, re­vers­ing a Cus­toms re­clas­si­fi­ca­tion that had sparked con­cern over the prospect of sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er ve­hi­cle prices.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) is urg­ing so­cial me­dia com­men­ta­tors to re­frain from in­ter­fer­ing in mat­ters af­fect­ing the au­to­mo­tive in­dus­try, say­ing be­hind-the-scenes ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Gov­ern­ment se­cured tax ex­emp­tions for a range of mild hy­brid ve­hi­cles.

The cold and cal­cu­lat­ed mur­der of Shayana Ruiz, al­leged­ly stem­ming from a con­fronta­tion over mon­ey owed to her, is not sim­ply an­oth­er act of vi­o­lence, ac­cord­ing to re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah.