Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­aligned Min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties for 10 plus front­line Min­is­ters - in­clud­ing  Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der who's now re­spon­si­ble for the prison sys­tem.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies all-rounder Bernard Julien has died at the age of 75.

In 2022, there was con­cern when the bpTT staff com­plex in Ma­yaro was list­ed for sale. Many from the com­mu­ni­ty feared the build­ing, which had con­tributed to many cher­ished mem­o­ries in the area, would be lost to them.

Po­lice yes­ter­day foiled a sec­ond drone drop at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in less than a week, ar­rest­ing two peo­ple, in­clud­ing a Pi­ar­co teenag­er.

Tack­le the re­cent ter­mi­na­tions of thou­sands of work­ers in the up­com­ing bud­get or face the con­se­quences that lie ahead. That’s the warn­ing from de­vel­op­ment econ­o­mist Dr Ralph Hen­ry to the Gov­ern­ment ahead of Bud­get 2026.

As an­tic­i­pa­tion builds for the up­com­ing na­tion­al bud­get, health stake­hold­ers are call­ing for ur­gent mea­sures to ad­dress wages, food se­cu­ri­ty, and the coun­try’s wors­en­ing health trends.

Econ­o­mists are urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to pri­ori­tise crit­i­cal na­tion­al chal­lenges in the 2026 Bud­get, in­clud­ing crime re­duc­tion, ed­u­ca­tion re­form, agri­cul­tur­al re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion, tourism de­vel­op­ment, and the ur­gent re­struc­tur­ing of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Scheme (NIS).

Amid the hus­tle and bus­tle of Up­per High Street in San Fer­nan­do, where taxi dri­vers could be heard court­ing pas­sen­gers for Princes Town and Gulf City Mall, the his­tor­i­cal red build­ing sits dor­mant in the heart of the city.

The his­to­ry of ca­lyp­so mu­sic is well doc­u­ment­ed ... in ca­lyp­so mu­sic it­self. How­ev­er, what is less known is the con­tri­bu­tions and im­pact of In­do-Trinida­di­ans on the art form. Those with­in the fra­ter­ni­ty are acute­ly aware and speak high­ly of the In­do-Trinida­di­an ser­vice, but those who don’t go to the tents are per­haps less aware.

More jobs have been lost, this time at the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, as short-term staff see their con­tracts come to an end.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal met with with Shell Trinidad and To­ba­go ex­ec­u­tives on Thurs­day to dis­cuss the re­vival of the Drag­on Gas project.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of mis­lead­ing the pub­lic about the sta­tus of the US Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cence—a crit­i­cal reg­u­la­to­ry re­quire­ment for any en­gage­ment with Venezuela’s state-owned gas re­serves.