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.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has con­demned the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to end spon­sor­ship of three Steel­bands, call­ing the move “un­jus­ti­fi­able and un­for­giv­able.” In a post on so­cial me­dia, Young said the af­fect­ed bands are “im­por­tant pil­lars in their re­spec­tive com­mu­ni­ties—they pro­vide safe spaces for our cit­i­zens to learn about team build­ing, dis­ci­pline, cul­ture, shar­ing, hard work, and achiev­ing suc­cess.”

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) is de­mand­ing the im­me­di­ate re­in­state­ment of all Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers it says were un­just­ly dis­missed.

For­mer FI­FA vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er will learn the out­come of his long-run­ning ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings be­fore the end of the month.

Noise pol­lu­tion, school vi­o­lence, drug abuse and il­le­gal squat­ting were among the long list of griev­ances raised by res­i­dents at a po­lice town meet­ing host­ed by the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion at Swa­ha Hin­du Col­lege on Cu­napo South­ern Main Road on Thurs­day evening.

The Hait­ian gov­ern­ment has sought to as­sure cit­i­zens that the state is mo­bil­is­ing all its re­sources to re­gain full con­trol of the oc­cu­pied ter­ri­to­ries and that life is grad­u­al­ly re­sum­ing in the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince.

The Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has is­sued an ad­verse weath­er alert (yel­low lev­el) for Trinidad, in ef­fect from 11 am to 6 pm to­day.

Three men were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents of rob­bery, kid­nap­ping and ve­hi­cle theft on Thurs­day.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen is ac­cus­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of seek­ing to de­fend al­leged cor­rup­tion and crim­i­nal­i­ty that the gov­ern­ment is try­ing to root out of the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

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