Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the is­land re­mains a safe tourist des­ti­na­tion, de­spite an­oth­er ma­rine ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point beach.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has signed Air Ser­vices Agree­ments with Pana­ma and Ghana, open­ing the way for strength­ened avi­a­tion links with Latin Amer­i­ca and Africa.

Trinidad and To­ba­go and Pana­ma are ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for greater co­op­er­a­tion in ma­rine re­search, tech­nol­o­gy, en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and the de­vel­op­ment of the blue econ­o­my.

Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers ap­pear set to fi­nal­ly re­ceive the prize mon­ey owed to them from the 2026 cel­e­bra­tions, but some are tak­ing is­sue with the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to dis­trib­ute the pay­ments at a cer­e­mo­ny.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is back­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to con­cen­trate spe­cial op­er­a­tions in Gov­ern­ment-con­trolled con­stituen­cies, say­ing he wants the mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed in his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy.

Teach­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go have re­ceived their long-await­ed back­pay for salaries cov­er­ing 2020 to 2023, ac­cord­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the al­leged kid­nap­ping and rape of a woman by a taxi dri­ver and pas­sen­ger on Mon­day night.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing that pro­posed amend­ments to the pub­lic pro­cure­ment law would re­duce the pow­ers of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) and give min­is­ters greater dis­cre­tion over pro­cure­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Ghana­ian Pres­i­dent John Dra­mani Ma­hama have signed an Air Ser­vices Agree­ment aimed at strength­en­ing air links be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Africa.

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, who ar­rived in the Unit­ed States yes­ter­day to at­tend the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA), is sched­uled to meet US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to­day and Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to­mor­row.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she will not au­tho­rise spe­cial op­er­a­tions in Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled com­mu­ni­ties, de­clar­ing that the Gov­ern­ment’s new crime-fight­ing mea­sures will in­stead be con­cen­trat­ed in Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)-held con­stituen­cies and To­ba­go.

Rel­a­tives of 24-year-old Bar­i­on Pat­ter­son are de­mand­ing an­swers af­ter he was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing over the week­end.