Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment’s first na­tion­al bud­get will be pre­sent­ed in ear­ly Oc­to­ber, but yes­ter­day stopped short of giv­ing the ex­act date for the pre­sen­ta­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­struct­ed the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) to ho­n­our its com­mit­ment to the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and pay out­stand­ing monies owed to work­ers from the 2014–2016 ne­go­ti­a­tion pe­ri­od.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings is once again deny­ing that he used his for­mer po­si­tion as a gov­ern­ment min­is­ter to ob­tain con­tracts for fam­i­ly busi­ness­es.

For­mer Fi­fa vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er seems set to be freed of the threat of ex­tra­di­tion al­most ex­act­ly a decade af­ter the Unit­ed States first re­quest­ed that he face tri­al for al­leged cor­rup­tion com­mit­ted dur­ing his ca­reer at world foot­ball’s gov­ern­ing body. 

Po­lice of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the Coast Guard and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners, have in­ter­cept­ed a fish­ing ves­sel com­ing from Venezuela to Trinidad trans­port­ing 29 mil­lion dol­lars worth of high-grade cannabis.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is fir­ing back at Venezuela’s Vice Pres­i­dent, de­clar­ing that she will “dare” to do what­ev­er is nec­es­sary for the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The State has been or­dered to pay a lit­tle over $200,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to two prison of­fi­cers, each, who pur­sued law­suits over a T&T Prison Ser­vice pol­i­cy bar­ring of­fi­cers from keep­ing beards.

Re­lief will be pro­vid­ed to for­mer Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) em­ploy­ees who ap­ply and qual­i­fy for so­cial wel­fare grants from the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices.

The moth­er of Ja­mal Charles, the po­lice of­fi­cer killed while on du­ty at a Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment guard booth on Thurs­day, says her son want­ed to be a “good po­lice.”

To­ba­go’s Steel Xplo­sion steel­band is in cri­sis just weeks be­fore To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val Panora­ma, af­ter the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) end­ed its spon­sor­ship of the band and two oth­ers on Thurs­day.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has se­cured a ma­jor vic­to­ry in its pro­tract­ed le­gal bat­tle to rep­re­sent month­ly-paid em­ploy­ees of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty (CAA).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will ad­dress the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) on Sep­tem­ber 26. Be­fore that, she con­firmed that the an­nu­al Re­pub­lic Day na­tion­al awards cer­e­mo­ny will take place and that she will be in at­ten­dance.