Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has thrown his full sup­port be­hind Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, re­ject­ing spec­u­la­tion that he har­bours lead­er­ship am­bi­tions ahead of the par­ty’s forth­com­ing in­ter­nal elec­tion.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says its new­ly re­vised ex­ec­u­tive struc­ture will slash se­nior man­age­ment costs by $39.1 mil­lion a year.

Promi­nent at­tor­ney Mar­tin George has been charged with two counts of sex­u­al as­sault by po­lice.

As the na­tion copes with rain­fall from suc­ces­sive trop­i­cal waves, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is grap­pling with a short­age of tech­ni­cal staff.

Con­trac­tors and work­ers un­der the Na­tion­al Re­for­esta­tion and Wa­ter­shed Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Pro­gramme (NR­WRP) can ex­pect to be paid by the end of this week, as the Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (RDC) says it is work­ing over­time to ver­i­fy timesheets.

There are mixed re­ac­tions fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment that her Gov­ern­ment in­tends to raise the le­gal age for al­co­hol con­sump­tion from 18 to 21 and for gam­bling and mar­i­jua­na use from 18 to 25. While some wel­come the move, oth­ers said it was mean­ing­less with­out prop­er en­force­ment.

The me­dia land­scape in the Caribbean is un­der­go­ing a shift fol­low­ing Dig­i­cel’s con­fir­ma­tion of the shut­down of Loop News and Sports­max.

With the Unit­ed States set to im­ple­ment rec­i­p­ro­cal tar­iffs by Au­gust 1, 2025, Cari­com Chair An­drew Hol­ness says while talks with the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tin­ue, the time has come for the re­gion to take trade di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion, es­pe­cial­ly with­in the Caribbean, more se­ri­ous­ly.

Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gon­salves says while he was look­ing for­ward to meet­ing Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, he un­der­stands she had a de­mand­ing sched­ule due to the of­fi­cial vis­it of In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter.

Even though the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies has an­nounced that the Debe cam­pus will open in Au­gust to house its new­ly launched Glob­al School of Med­i­cine (GSM), the Gov­ern­ment has cho­sen to hire a con­sul­tant to re­view the in­fra­struc­ture and be­gin re­pairs in Au­gust in­stead.

The Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal has ac­ti­vat­ed its Emer­gency Mode for the next 48 hours, fol­low­ing a sud­den rise in pa­tient ad­mis­sions and lim­it­ed bed space in its med­ical and sur­gi­cal wards.

Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gon­salves has once again in­vit­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go to join the Re­gion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sys­tem (RSS), stat­ing that the ini­tia­tive could sig­nif­i­cant­ly as­sist the coun­try in tack­ling its crime chal­lenges.