Reef tour op­er­a­tors and jet ski own­ers are fum­ing over the in­crease in fines out­lined in the new To­ba­go Ma­rine Park Bill.

The re­cip­i­ent of a na­tion­al bur­sary for ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion, who could not ac­cess it be­cause of vary­ing po­si­tions tak­en by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, has been award­ed $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

Mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) moved swift­ly to res­cue a four-year-old boy af­ter a ve­hi­cle theft es­ca­lat­ed in­to an ab­duc­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Cu­mu­to res­i­dents are call­ing on the au­thor­i­ties not to “side­line” their probe in­to the dis­cov­ery of bod­ies at the Cu­mu­to Pub­lic Ceme­tery, as they are con­cerned that the mat­ter may not be prop­er­ly re­solved.

“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.