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.

Res­i­dents, busi­ness own­ers and cor­po­ra­tion work­ers joined forces in Mar­aval to pull a re­frig­er­a­tor from an un­der­ground drain at Val­lot Street and Sad­dle Road yes­ter­day.

Mo­torists seek­ing to es­cape traf­fic by us­ing road­ways along aban­doned Ca­roni (1975) Lim­it­ed hous­ing lots may soon no­tice a new kind of traf­fic—lit­ter war­dens ly­ing in wait for of­fend­ers who have trans­formed the area in­to an il­le­gal dump­ing ground.

For the first time, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has been named a Five Star Ma­jor Air­line by the Air­line Pas­sen­ger Ex­pe­ri­ence As­so­ci­a­tion (APEX). CAL has pre­vi­ous­ly been named a Four Star Ma­jor Air­line in 2024, 2022, 2020, and 2019. But at the APEX/IF­SA Glob­al EX­PO Awards Cer­e­mo­ny held in Cal­i­for­nia, the lo­cal car­ri­er did one bet­ter than last year, cop­ping the APEX Five Star Ma­jor Air­line 2026 award. It’s the on­ly Caribbean car­ri­er to be named in that cat­e­go­ry along­side air­lines such as Alas­ka Air­lines, Hawai­ian Air­lines, Jet­Blue Air­ways, and French bou­tique air­line La Com­pag­nie.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin has pledged sup­port for the steel­pan fra­ter­ni­ty af­ter the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) with­drew spon­sor­ship from three Steel­bands.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced Gov­ern­ment has in­struct­ed the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) to im­ple­ment salary ad­just­ments and pay out­stand­ing ar­rears to em­ploy­ees dat­ing back to the 2014–2016 ne­go­ti­at­ing pe­ri­od.

The Min­istry of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MC­CD) has con­firmed a spe­cial per­for­mance for con­tes­tants af­fect­ed by the smoke bomb in­ci­dent at the La Reine Rive Self-Ex­pres­sion and Tal­ent Fi­nals of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Best Vil­lage Tro­phy Com­pe­ti­tion last Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 2025, at SAPA.

Au­thor­i­ties in­ter­cept­ed a ves­sel off the Point Fortin coast­line ear­ly Fri­day, seiz­ing over $29 mil­lion worth of high-grade cannabis. The op­er­a­tion fol­lowed in­tel­li­gence re­ceived on Thurs­day in­di­cat­ing a large con­sign­ment of Colom­bian “Creepy” mar­i­jua­na was be­ing trans­port­ed from Venezuela to Trinidad aboard a fish­ing ves­sel.