Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has reaf­firmed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s com­mit­ment to con­fronting ter­ror­ism in all its forms in her 9/11 mes­sage mark­ing the 24th an­niver­sary of the at­tacks in the Unit­ed States.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter, Khadi­jah Ameen has con­firmed that a “hefty num­ber” of Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) work­ers from its 12 re­gion­al of­fices have been ter­mi­nat­ed to­day. 

WHY THIS MAT­TERS: Pol­ish air­space has been vi­o­lat­ed sev­er­al times since Rus­sia’s full-scale in­va­sion of Ukraine in 2022, but there has been noth­ing on the scale of Wednes­day’s vi­o­la­tions in Poland or in any oth­er NA­TO coun­try.

Cus­tomers in parts of south-east Trinidad will be with­out pipe-borne wa­ter on Fri­day as the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) car­ries out planned me­chan­i­cal re­pairs at the Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

Po­lice are search­ing for a man who broke in­to a poul­try de­pot in Ari­ma on Tues­day evening but fled the scene, leav­ing be­hind his wal­let and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card.

Is­rael struck the head­quar­ters of Hamas’ po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship in Qatar on Tues­day as the group’s top fig­ures gath­ered to con­sid­er a U.S. pro­pos­al for a cease­fire in the Gaza Strip. The strike on the ter­ri­to­ry of a U.S. al­ly marked a stun­ning es­ca­la­tion and risked up­end­ing talks aimed at wind­ing down the war and free­ing hostages.

Sev­en­teen-year-old Debe Sec­ondary School stu­dent Alexan­der Sookraj, who earned nine Grade Ones in his Caribbean Sec­ondary Ed­u­ca­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CSEC) ex­am­i­na­tions, says true suc­cess comes with pro­tect­ing men­tal health, not sac­ri­fic­ing it.

The Caribbean must re­main a zone of peace - but it must nev­er be­come a zone for gangs, car­tels and or­gan­ised crime.

Brazil­ian Pres­i­dent Luiz In­á­cio Lu­la da Sil­va took is­sue with the Unit­ed States' mil­i­tary pres­ence in the re­gion when he spoke at a BRICS vir­tu­al sum­mit called by Brazil on Mon­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that she will at­tend the 80th ses­sion of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA), mark­ing her first over­seas trip since tak­ing of­fice in April.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment is set to de­port some 200 Venezue­lans now in­car­cer­at­ed in T&T’s jails.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Am­bas­sador Plenipo­ten­tiary to Cari­com Ralph Maraj has called for small, vul­ner­a­ble states in the Caribbean to re­assess their se­cu­ri­ty pos­ture in the face of ris­ing threats from both state and non-state ac­tors.