Poor eat­ing habits and seden­tary lifestyles are fu­elling an in­crease in di­a­betes cas­es in rur­al ar­eas of south Trinidad.

Trade, In­vest­ment, and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj has urged busi­ness­peo­ple to em­brace ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) as a tool to boost glob­al com­pet­i­tive­ness and cre­ate new op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Sec­re­tary of the Pri­vate Phar­ma­cy Re­tail Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion, Leah Sankers­ingh, says phar­ma­cists have tra­di­tion­al­ly been among the most pas­sive of health­care pro­fes­sion­als, of­ten fo­cus­ing on their cus­tomers while ne­glect­ing their own con­cerns.

The Min­istry of Health has an­nounced the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the re­vised Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 1.

Six sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of cannabis seized dur­ing on­go­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions across the Cen­tral, South­ern, and South West­ern Di­vi­sions on Oc­to­ber 4, 2025.

Two men am­bushed a 47-year-old man be­fore beat­ing and stab­bing him dur­ing an at­tack at Bor­de Narve Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, on Sat­ur­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s art com­mu­ni­ty is ral­ly­ing to sup­port one of its own, as sev­er­al lo­cal artists do­nate their works for Art At­tack—an art auc­tion sched­uled for Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 11, at the 101 Art Gallery in New­town.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­aligned Min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties for 10 plus front­line Min­is­ters - in­clud­ing  Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der who's now re­spon­si­ble for the prison sys­tem.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies all-rounder Bernard Julien has died at the age of 75.

In 2022, there was con­cern when the bpTT staff com­plex in Ma­yaro was list­ed for sale. Many from the com­mu­ni­ty feared the build­ing, which had con­tributed to many cher­ished mem­o­ries in the area, would be lost to them.

Po­lice yes­ter­day foiled a sec­ond drone drop at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in less than a week, ar­rest­ing two peo­ple, in­clud­ing a Pi­ar­co teenag­er.

Tack­le the re­cent ter­mi­na­tions of thou­sands of work­ers in the up­com­ing bud­get or face the con­se­quences that lie ahead. That’s the warn­ing from de­vel­op­ment econ­o­mist Dr Ralph Hen­ry to the Gov­ern­ment ahead of Bud­get 2026.