“What is Bor­ough Day with­out a lit­tle bac­cha­nal?” Point Fortin MP Ernesto Ke­sar re­marked on the back-and-forth be­tween him­self and Point Fortin May­or Clyde James over fund­ing for Point Fortin Bor­ough Day 2026.

The mar­ket for for­eign used ve­hi­cles in Trinidad and To­ba­go is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing re­newed com­mer­cial mo­men­tum, with strong de­mand emerg­ing for six- and eight-year-old mod­els, ac­cord­ing to in­dus­try stake­hold­ers.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned the at­tack at the White House Cor­re­spon­dents’ Din­ner, ex­press­ing re­lief that Don­ald Trump, the First La­dy, and oth­ers in at­ten­dance were not harmed.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Health Sec­re­tary Dr Faith Breb­nor says To­ba­go re­mains un­af­fect­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion’s di­rec­tive for nurs­es to lim­it care to six pa­tients.

There are re­ports that two peo­ple were killed in an ac­ci­dent this morn­ing in Ba­co­let. The have been iden­ti­fied as Sha­ka Rivers and Keon Nim­blett.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that those who “want war will get to­tal po­lit­i­cal war,” as she promised sup­port­ers that brighter days are ahead for Trinidad and To­ba­go with thou­sands more jobs, in­creased po­lice posts and new homes in the pipeline.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is ques­tion­ing whether Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young is at­tempt­ing to un­der­mine the coun­try and its en­er­gy sec­tor af­ter post­ing a pho­to with him­self and Venezuela’s Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

A snap pulse check among sup­port­ers is putting fresh wind be­hind Jear­lean John, with the UNC deputy po­lit­i­cal leader emerg­ing as the top choice to even­tu­al­ly lead the par­ty.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10,000 PNM mem­bers will vote to­day to choose a new To­ba­go Coun­cil leader in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tions.

The 2025 Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts of T&T has un­veiled a se­ries of pro­found fis­cal ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties, sig­nalling a cri­sis of ac­count­abil­i­ty that spans from state-run hous­ing projects to high-lev­el in­ter­na­tion­al cred­it agree­ments.

The Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent has re­ject­ed what it de­scribes as im­prop­er in­sin­u­a­tions cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia re­gard­ing an al­leged fi­nan­cial arrange­ment, in­sist­ing that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo acts strict­ly with­in the con­sti­tu­tion­al frame­work of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

When T&T re­turns to the polls, pre­sum­ably when con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in 2030, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be 78 years old, po­ten­tial­ly mak­ing her the coun­try’s old­est-ever serv­ing prime min­is­ter.