Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi has raised is­sues with the fact that 140 em­ploy­ees at the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment were sent home af­ter their con­tracts end­ed and were not re­newed.

The Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia is ex­pect­ed to ad­dress a joint sit­ting of this coun­try’s Par­lia­ment dur­ing his of­fi­cial vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go from Ju­ly 3–4, 2025, at the in­vi­ta­tion of T&T Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Po­lice are yet to iden­ti­fy the bod­ies of two His­pan­ic women un­earthed from a shal­low grave in Cen­tral Trinidad ear­li­er this week.

Rox­anne Paul, a can­di­date in the up­com­ing elec­tions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), has clar­i­fied that Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Of­fi­cers are not el­i­gi­ble for mem­ber­ship in the As­so­ci­a­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­mind­ed mem­bers of the pub­lic that all ap­pli­ca­tions for a Firearm User’s Li­cence (FUL) must com­ply ful­ly with the law and be processed sole­ly through of­fi­cial TTPS chan­nels.

Fifty-sev­en res­i­dents from Mara­bel­la have so far been evac­u­at­ed fol­low­ing an oil spill in the Mara­bel­la Riv­er.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) says the re­peal of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) leg­is­la­tion proves that work­er sol­i­dar­i­ty can de­feat po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence and in­jus­tice.

At least 60 peo­ple were killed across Gaza by Is­raeli strikes, health work­ers said Sat­ur­day, as Pales­tini­ans face a grow­ing hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in Gaza and cease­fire prospects inch clos­er.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and Port-of-Spain/St Ann’s West MP Stu­art Young says he is con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion fol­low­ing the ter­mi­na­tion of hun­dreds of CEPEP con­trac­tors, which he says has led to the loss of jobs for thou­sands of cit­i­zens.

The con­tracts of hun­dreds of Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors were ter­mi­nat­ed yes­ter­day, leav­ing over 10,000 work­ers on the bread­line.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi has con­demned the ter­mi­na­tion of over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­trac­tors as the start of what he de­scribed as a “reign of tyran­ny” un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-led Gov­ern­ment.

The Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025 was passed by Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) votes in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day.