Work is con­tin­u­ing on the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Debe Cam­pus as the Gov­ern­ment moves to com­plete the fa­cil­i­ty as quick­ly as pos­si­ble, says Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion Prakash Per­sad.

The Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture has of­fi­cial­ly hand­ed over the new Cen­tral Block at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal cam­pus to the Min­istry of Health.

The Trin­ba­go Farm­ers Union (TFU) is seek­ing an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and key gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to ad­dress grow­ing con­cerns over the fu­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dairy in­dus­try amid re­ports that Nestlé is seek­ing to di­vest its lo­cal op­er­a­tions.

The pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Copy­right Col­lec­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TTC­CO) is call­ing for greater trans­paren­cy over the li­cens­ing of FI­FA World Cup broad­casts in com­mer­cial es­tab­lish­ments, say­ing the pub­lic de­bate should be guid­ed by facts, con­trac­tu­al rights and in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty law rather than spec­u­la­tion.

For Sama­ra Sid­hooram, top­ping the Fe­lic­i­ty SDMS Hin­du School in the 2026 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion is not the end of her jour­ney—it is the first step to­wards ful­fill­ing a dream in­spired by some­one very close to her.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ar­rest­ed four peo­ple for rob­bery and lar­ce­ny-re­lat­ed of­fences, de­tained four oth­ers in con­nec­tion with a firearms in­ves­ti­ga­tion, and re­cov­ered two stolen cel­lu­lar phones dur­ing a se­ries of in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions as part of Op­er­a­tion RES­OLUTE Shield in Ch­agua­nas, Port-of-Spain and To­ba­go.

SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has con­firmed that it made a bid to sup­ply bot­tled wa­ter to State-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL), but says dis­cus­sions are still un­der­way with the air­line, al­though CAL has al­ready con­firmed that it has award­ed the com­pa­ny a $405,600 con­tract.

A 65-year-old woman died af­ter she was struck by a van along the South­ern Main Road in Mara­bel­la on Tues­day.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has urged the Gov­ern­ment to pro­ceed cau­tious­ly with its pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tre projects, point­ing to New York’s de­ci­sion to pause con­struc­tion of large fa­cil­i­ties over con­cerns about their im­pact on pow­er and wa­ter re­sources.

At­tor­ney H. R. Ian Roach has been ap­point­ed a mem­ber of the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (JLSC).

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young SC says it is a time­ly warn­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go that New York yes­ter­day be­came the first US state to halt the con­struc­tion of large new da­ta cen­tres be­cause of con­cerns about their im­pact on elec­tric­i­ty costs, wa­ter sup­plies and host com­mu­ni­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with a high-lev­el Unit­ed States del­e­ga­tion on Mon­day for dis­cus­sions aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al ties and ex­pand­ing co­op­er­a­tion in in­vest­ment, eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment and re­gion­al is­sues.