Two new min­is­ters will be sworn in this af­ter­noon at Pres­i­dent’s House, but the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent has not yet re­vealed who they are.

Grate­ful for the planned open­ing of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Glob­al School of Med­i­cine, Debe vil­lagers are now urg­ing UWI to go fur­ther—by open­ing the long-await­ed cam­pus to the Fac­ul­ties of Law and Agri­cul­ture as well.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Ken­ny An­tho­ny has an­nounced his de­ci­sion to bow out of ac­tive pol­i­tics, in­di­cat­ing al­so that he will not be a can­di­date for the rul­ing St. Lu­cia Labour Par­ty (SLP) in the 2026 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has se­cured a spot on the glob­al aca­d­e­m­ic stage af­ter An­dre Bal­gar of the School of Prac­ti­cal Ac­count­ing Ed­u­ca­tion Lim­it­ed (SPAEL) re­ceived the pres­ti­gious Top Pa­per Award from the UK-based As­so­ci­a­tion of Busi­ness Ex­ec­u­tives (ABE).

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) has ad­dressed the sta­tus and fu­ture of its South Cam­pus in Pe­nal-Debe, out­lin­ing restora­tion ef­forts, fi­nan­cial needs and a re­newed strate­gic di­rec­tion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived a do­na­tion of 19,000 kilo­grams of rice and 12,500 litres of ed­i­ble oil from the Gov­ern­ment of In­dia. The sup­plies were for­mal­ly hand­ed over by In­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er Dr Pradeep Ra­jpuro­hit dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny on Wednes­day at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture’s head of­fice in Ch­agua­nas.

Air­craft parts man­u­fac­tur­ing, main­te­nance, and train­ing could soon form part of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­dus­tri­al mix, ac­cord­ing to the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zones Au­thor­i­ty (SEZA), Stephen De Gannes.

Two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­on De­fence Force stayed on course to com­plete the dou­ble when they bat­tled past Club San­do FC 1-0 in the First Cit­i­zens Cup quar­ter-fi­nal at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va on Wednes­day night.

The rul­ing Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty (BLP) main­tained its al­most full com­mand of the 30-seat Par­lia­ment, when for­mer ed­u­ca­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion min­is­ter, Chad Black­man, won the St James North con­stituen­cy in the by-elec­tion on Wednes­day.

Two staff mem­bers of the Is­raeli Em­bassy in Wash­ing­ton were shot and killed Wednes­day evening while leav­ing an event at a Jew­ish mu­se­um, and the sus­pect yelled, “Free, free Pales­tine” af­ter he was ar­rest­ed, po­lice said.

Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) pres­i­dent Ains­ley King has de­scribed the copy­right law­suit against the es­tate of Black Stal­in as “dis­grace­ful” and said he does not be­lieve it will drag on in the courts.

New­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath has wast­ed no time in mak­ing his dis­ap­point­ment about how the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) op­er­ates known.