At­tor­ney Nafeesa Mo­hammed is ap­peal­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to use her up­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tions vis­it to speak with Syr­i­an lead­ers and oth­er au­thor­i­ties to help repa­tri­ate the 97 T&T women and chil­dren who have been in Mid­dle East­ern refugee camps since 2019.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­tained its Tier 2 rank­ing in the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of State’s An­nu­al Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Re­port, even as the coun­try’s lat­est na­tion­al re­port re­veals that 30 vic­tims of hu­man traf­fick­ing were iden­ti­fied in 2025, all fe­male and sub­ject­ed to sex­u­al ex­ploita­tion.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter and Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Bar­ry Padarath is call­ing on the pub­lic to lob­by the Op­po­si­tion to sup­port any mea­sures aimed at fight­ing crime, whether through leg­is­la­tion or op­er­a­tional ini­tia­tives.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) has launched a sweep­ing in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to for­mer act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Keino Cox, with al­le­ga­tions rang­ing from pro­cure­ment breach­es and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance fail­ures to con­flicts of in­ter­est, fraud, sex­u­al ha­rass­ment and re­tal­i­a­tion against per­sons who raised con­cerns.

An­oth­er ma­jor wa­ter pipeline rup­ture in San Fer­nan­do left one busi­ness­man count­ing his loss­es yes­ter­day.

Farm­ers and ven­dors at the Princes Town Mar­ket are di­vid­ed over a de­ci­sion to move farm­ers from their usu­al sell­ing area out­side the mar­ket in­to the main mar­ket build­ing.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the world in mark­ing 25 years since the Sep­tem­ber 11 ter­ror­ist at­tacks, a lead­ing Mus­lim or­gan­i­sa­tion re­newed its call for the Gov­ern­ment to re­verse its des­ig­na­tion of Hamas, Hezbol­lah and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) as ter­ror­ist en­ti­ties.

New­ly elect­ed Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU) pres­i­dent Deb­bie-Ann Ot­t­ley says the union will not au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ac­cept the 10 per cent wage set­tle­ment be­ing used as a bench­mark in sec­tions of the pub­lic sec­tor, in­sist­ing that each ne­go­ti­a­tion must be guid­ed by the cir­cum­stances of the com­pa­ny and, ul­ti­mate­ly, the man­date of work­ers.

De­spite sci­en­tists mak­ing ex­tra­or­di­nary dis­cov­er­ies in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deep sea, Dr Di­va Amon says they have bare­ly scratched the sur­face, and the coun­try must now take greater charge of un­der­stand­ing and man­ag­ing what lies be­neath its wa­ters.

To pre­vent an up­surge in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing the re­lease of more than 500 peo­ple de­tained with­out charge dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE), Sean De Mills says the State must now fo­cus on re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and rein­te­gra­tion pro­grammes.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is warn­ing crim­i­nals that her Gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue to take “harsh and bru­tal mea­sures” against those who ter­rorise law-abid­ing cit­i­zens, even as the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ap­proach­es its Sep­tem­ber 17 end date.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she has de­cid­ed, on the ad­vice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, to de­clas­si­fy and re­lease a re­port show­ing the re­sults of wider ac­tions tak­en by the pro­tec­tive ser­vices to re­duce crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty dur­ing the State of Emer­gency.