Po­lice said the 30-year-old man was at his Bridal Av­enue home with his ex-girl­friend at around 5.10 am when he heard a man call out to her from out­side the house.

A po­lice of­fi­cer who ac­com­pa­nied her son to sell a hood­ie in Laven­tille was able to scare off two ban­dits who tried to rob them on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Pres­i­dent & Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed, Nigel Bap­tiste, as its new Pres­i­dent, ef­fec­tive Au­gust 14, 2025.

T&T Restau­rant Week has of­fi­cial­ly en­tered a new chap­ter in its evo­lu­tion—recog­nised for the first time as a na­tion­al fes­ti­val by the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism.

Venezuela is not budg­ing and in­stead adopt­ing a wait-and-see ap­proach fol­low­ing Mon­day’s an­nounce­ment of the rein­car­na­tion of the Drag­on gas deal with Trinidad and To­ba­go. Well-placed sources in the Nicolás Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the re­cent rhetoric by both T&T and the Unit­ed States against Venezuela has been in­sult­ing. The sources said a dif­fer­ent ap­proach is re­quired from both na­tions in or­der for the Maduro regime to change its cur­rent stance in or­der for any deal to go for­ward.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has re­fused to say who will lead ne­go­ti­a­tions with Venezuela over the stalled Drag­on gas project, in­sist­ing on­ly that “the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go is one Gov­ern­ment.”

The US State De­part­ment is not mov­ing from its po­si­tion that Nico­las Maduro is not the le­git­i­mate leader of Venezuela.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young says the Gov­ern­ment’s rhetoric to­wards Venezuela in re­cent months will in­flu­ence ne­go­ti­a­tions for the Drag­on gas deal.

Shell, which has been T&T’s part­ner in the Drag­on gas deal, is re­main­ing silent on the lat­est move to re­vive the project.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo says cel­e­brat­ing the work done by women should not be tak­en for grant­ed, and that women over the years have not got­ten their due ac­knowl­edge­ment.

While the Gov­ern­ment has not yet an­nounced when the 2025-2026 na­tion­al bud­get will be pre­sent­ed, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert sus­pects it could be de­liv­ered next Mon­day.

Bar­ba­dos, Do­mini­ca, Be­lize, and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines have thrown open their bor­ders for free move­ment of each oth­er’s cit­i­zens. But while the de­ci­sion has been hailed as a land­mark for re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion, ex­perts sug­gest T&T is hold­ing back be­cause of its frag­ile econ­o­my and mi­gra­tion pres­sures.