The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), in part­ner­ship with the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, to­day of­fi­cial­ly launched a TT$20 mil­lion waste­water pipeline re­place­ment project aimed at bring­ing long-await­ed re­lief to the res­i­dents of Beetham Gar­dens.

Mo­torists trav­el­ing along the East­ern Main Road be­tween Mt. Lam­bert and Curepe Junc­tion are be­ing ad­vised to pre­pare for tem­po­rary traf­fic dis­rup­tions as the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion be­gins pave­ment mark­ing works in the area.

Two women have been con­vict­ed in sep­a­rate cas­es of sell­ing in­tox­i­cat­ing liquor with­out a valid li­cence, fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in the North­ern Di­vi­sion. Both mat­ters were heard be­fore Mag­is­trate Niko­las Ali at the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Third Court, where guilty pleas were en­tered.

Ten years af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with fail­ing to pro­vide a breath spec­i­men, a mo­torist has won a High Court law­suit against the State for ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion, wrong­ful ar­rest, and false im­pris­on­ment.

U.S. De­fense Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth lashed out at NA­TO al­lies on Thurs­day as he an­nounced a six-month Pen­ta­gon re­view of Amer­i­can forces in Eu­rope whose out­come will de­pend on how fast the Eu­ro­peans take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for their own se­cu­ri­ty.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go com­mem­o­rates Labour Day to­day, the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has is­sued a strong call for re­newed com­mit­ment to work­ers’ rights, fair wages, and so­cial jus­tice.

The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ECA TT) has called for stronger, more struc­tured so­cial di­a­logue in its Labour Day 2026 mes­sage, urg­ing that na­tion­al con­sul­ta­tion mech­a­nisms be trans­lat­ed in­to mea­sur­able pol­i­cy out­comes rather than re­main at the lev­el of prin­ci­ple alone.

Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment, Leroy Bap­tiste, has reaf­firmed Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing work­ers’ rights and ad­vanc­ing de­cent work as Trinidad and To­ba­go marks Labour Day 2026.

Po­lit­i­cal dif­fer­ences were set aside as To­ba­go politi­cians pub­licly ex­pressed sup­port for Sec­re­tary of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Ian Pol­lard, who re­mains hos­pi­talised.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) has of­fi­cial­ly can­celled the pro­cure­ment pro­ceed­ings for its con­tro­ver­sial $3.4 bil­lion De­sign-Build-Fi­nance (DBF) hous­ing pro­gramme, bring­ing an abrupt end to a process that had been un­der scruti­ny from the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) since April.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thurs­day against a broad fed­er­al ban on gun own­er­ship by mar­i­jua­na users, the lat­est in a line of firearm cas­es from a court that has ex­pand­ed gun rights.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to po­si­tion it­self as a re­gion­al leader in dig­i­tal in­no­va­tion re­ceived an in­ter­na­tion­al boost this week af­ter Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Sen­a­tor Do­minic Smith was in­vit­ed to join a glob­al board fo­cused on ad­vanc­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion.