Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day de­fend­ed a new Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) pol­i­cy, which has in­tro­duced a five per cent fee on the trans­fer of prop­er­ties with­in fam­i­lies and a ten per cent fee on trans­ac­tions in­volv­ing the sale of its prop­er­ties.

The Trans­port Min­istry is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the in­creas­ing use of mo­bile and wind­screen-mount­ed de­vices for video calls, record­ing and live stream­ing while dri­ving to de­ter­mine whether ad­di­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry pro­vi­sions are need­ed, says Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our.

A dou­ble de­feat in the Sen­ate yes­ter­day as Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark shut down both at­tempts by the Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent bench­es to probe ac­cu­sa­tions made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The Gov­ern­ment is as­sur­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­ceived no di­rec­tive from the Unit­ed States to halt the long-stand­ing prac­tice of send­ing na­tion­als to Cu­ba to study med­i­cine.

With three in­ves­ti­ga­tions un­der­way in­to the fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of Josi­ah Sama­roo, rel­a­tives of three young men killed by po­lice near­ly four years ago have come for­ward to of­fer sup­port to his fam­i­ly—and to call for the res­ig­na­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has come to the de­fence of of­fi­cers amid what he de­scribes as “bla­tant mis­truths” be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed about their al­leged re­fusal to wear body cam­eras, as well as claims that he has failed to en­force the rel­e­vant reg­u­la­tions with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Pris­on­ers at Tetron Bar­racks and Staubles Bay in Ch­aguara­mas con­tin­ued their hunger strike for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive day yes­ter­day.

Car­ni­val 2026 in San Fer­nan­do will go ahead with­out a com­pe­ti­tion af­ter the San Fer­nan­do Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee an­nounced it can­not af­ford to pay prizes due to a $200,000 short­fall from its 2025 al­lo­ca­tion.

The costs for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ten-plus-mem­ber del­e­ga­tion, which par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly 2025 in the Unit­ed States last Sep­tem­ber, in­volved a to­tal air­fare cost of $147,000 and a to­tal non-ac­count­able al­lowance cost of $914,970 for the en­tire del­e­ga­tion.

To­ba­go has now gone more than three weeks with­out a ded­i­cat­ed car­go ser­vice, and busi­ness lead­ers warn the is­land is on the brink of se­ri­ous eco­nom­ic dam­age as short­ages deep­en and ma­jor events are can­celled.

The Na­tion­al Panora­ma medi­um band fi­nals will be held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah this year af­ter dam­age to the new­ly-leased MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny fer­ry forced or­gan­is­ers to aban­don plans to stage the event in To­ba­go.

The coun­try’s high­est ap­pel­late court has pro­vid­ed guid­ance on the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the statu­to­ry cri­te­ria for ap­point­ing the chair­man of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of T&T (NIBTT).