The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has been spend­ing mil­lions of dol­lars to truck wa­ter in­to com­mu­ni­ties and build sev­er­al tank farms, es­ti­mat­ed to be over $7 mil­lion in all, to im­prove dis­tri­b­u­tion, yet res­i­dents across Trinidad say they are still go­ing weeks with­out wa­ter in their taps. Some say they are buy­ing wa­ter from pri­vate sup­pli­ers, oth­ers are col­lect­ing rain­wa­ter, while fam­i­lies con­tin­ue to ra­tion what lit­tle they re­ceive.

The col­lapse of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) board did not be­gin with the mass res­ig­na­tions. A Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion found months of warn­ings about re­cruit­ment, an in­ter­nal au­dit that iden­ti­fied fail­ures in the process and re­peat­ed com­plaints that board de­ci­sions were not be­ing car­ried out.

For the last five years, Guardian Me­dia has sent jour­nal­ists to the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence - known as the Con­fer­ence of Par­ties. Since then, the stakes have on­ly got­ten high­er as the world con­tin­ues to warm.

On April 3, 2025, twen­ty-five days be­fore the gen­er­al elec­tion, the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) sealed a 30-year lease grant­i­ng 21,000 square feet of Monos Is­land wa­ter­front land to a firm co-owned by then-TPHL chair­man Se­nior Coun­sel Michael Quam­i­na, for $2,200 a month.

An­i­mal wel­fare ad­vo­cates are prepar­ing to mon­i­tor fire­works ac­tiv­i­ty and re­spond to dis­tressed an­i­mals dur­ing Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions, amid con­cerns that loud ex­plo­sions could cause pets to pan­ic and flee their homes.

For more than two years, res­i­dents of St John’s Branch Trace, Av­o­cat en­dured the dai­ly hard­ship of car­ry­ing gro­ceries across a flood­gate to reach their homes, haul­ing garbage along the same route and re­ly­ing on a boat to cross the riv­er when some­one fell ill.

Is­raeli Pres­i­dent Isaac Her­zog said Sat­ur­day night that he was giv­ing op­po­si­tion can­di­date Ga­di Eisenkot the first op­por­tu­ni­ty to form a gov­ern­ing coali­tion fol­low­ing elec­tions on Oct. 27.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) on Fri­day pre­sent­ed a new plan to ac­cel­er­ate malar­ia elim­i­na­tion in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean.

Po­lice said they re­ceived a re­port of a shoot­ing at Pic­ton Road, Pump Trace, short­ly af­ter 1 am.

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath has fired back at the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), over its de­mand for Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee to step aside from his min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lio while his crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings con­tin­ue, ac­cus­ing the Op­po­si­tion of hypocrisy.

Nigel Bap­tiste is re­tir­ing as group pres­i­dent and CEO of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) and pres­i­dent and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd (RBL), bring­ing to an end a ca­reer span­ning more than three decades with the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion, in­clud­ing ten years at its helm.

The Gov­ern­ment has no in­ten­tion of with­draw­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go from the Com­mon­wealth de­spite Britain’s po­si­tion on repa­ra­tions for slav­ery, For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has said.