For­mer min­is­ter of fi­nance Colm Im­bert says the Gov­ern­ment will need to re­turn to Par­lia­ment for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing or present an all new 2026 Bud­get if it in­tends to meet the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s re­quest to have back­pay, stem­ming from the still-to-be-ne­go­ti­at­ed “ten per cent” wage in­crease, paid by Christ­mas.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has warned that mak­ing threats on so­cial me­dia is against the law and will not be tol­er­at­ed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is warn­ing that it will not al­low the Gov­ern­ment to threat­en and muz­zle voic­es that speak out against its con­duct.

PNM To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis says To­ba­go has “aged” un­der the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion, claim­ing the is­land de­te­ri­o­rat­ed so bad­ly that it now looks “69” in­stead of “29”.

PNM To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly has noth­ing to show for the mil­lions spent on for­eign trav­el in re­cent years ex­cept “self­ies and joyrides”, and he promised that a PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion would on­ly trav­el to se­cure re­al in­vest­ment for To­ba­go.

Girls of Im­pact T&T has be­gun its out­reach for 16 Days of Ac­tivism to end Gen­der-based Vi­o­lence by tak­ing the in­ter­na­tion­al theme of dig­i­tal gen­der-based vi­o­lence di­rect­ly in­to schools. The NGO re­cent­ly co-host­ed a pan­el dis­cus­sion and spo­ken-word ses­sion with Form 3 stu­dents at San Juan South Sec­ondary, teach­ing them how cy­ber­bul­ly­ing, non-con­sen­su­al pho­to shar­ing and on­line ha­rass­ment form part of gen­der-based vi­o­lence (GBV).

The qui­et still­ness of St Bene­dict’s RC Church in La Ro­maine was shat­tered ear­ly Mon­day when a gang of bur­glars broke in­to the pres­bytery, ty­ing up and rob­bing Priest Fr Derek An­ton. By yes­ter­day, work­men were al­ready chang­ing the locks, but the shak­en mood across the com­pound lin­gered heav­i­ly in the air.

With just over one month to go be­fore the year ends, po­lice-in­volved killings have to­talled 54 in­ci­dents up to No­vem­ber 23.

The tri­al of a law­suit from a long-stand­ing firearms deal­er, over a po­lice ex­er­cise in 2022 which re­sult­ed in his busi­ness be­ing closed for sev­er­al weeks, is set to be com­plet­ed this week.

The fu­ner­al for mur­dered Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor will take place to­mor­row, as her shat­tered fam­i­ly and com­mu­ni­ty con­tin­ue to strug­gle with the bru­tal cir­cum­stances of her death.

Af­ter weeks of be­ing de­nied an au­di­ence with prison su­per­vi­sor Garth Gua­da re­gard­ing the fil­ing of a ju­di­cial re­view chal­leng­ing the State’s re­fusal to dis­con­tin­ue his Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO), his at­tor­ney has fi­nal­ly been al­lowed to meet with him and re­ceive in­struc­tions on how to pro­ceed.

Com­mu­ni­ties along Tamana Hill Road and Los Ar­madil­los Road in Guaico say they have been left iso­lat­ed, frus­trat­ed, and des­per­ate af­ter the on­ly ac­cess routes in­to the area de­te­ri­o­rat­ed to the point of be­ing im­pass­able. Res­i­dents say it is an es­ca­lat­ing cri­sis they blame on years of ne­glect, poor main­te­nance, and a lack of rep­re­sen­ta­tion.