Pan­nist Joshua Re­grel­lo will per­form at the Taj Ma­hal in In­dia in the com­ing weeks. He made the an­nounce­ment on Sun­day evening dur­ing a per­for­mance with tabla play­er Shiv­an Seenath at the clos­ing night of the Di­vali Na­gar cel­e­bra­tions.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has is­sued two yel­low-lev­el alerts for ad­verse weath­er and haz­ardous seas, warn­ing that un­sta­ble con­di­tions could con­tin­ue through Mon­day night.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the 35-year-old work­er was at Trip­ple R Bar, East­ern Main Road, D’Abadie around 11.20 am when a “fair skin” man, stocky built with plaits hair­style and a hat hand­ed her a hun­dred-dol­lar bill and asked for a beer. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­knowl­edged the grow­ing anx­i­ety among cit­i­zens, as­sur­ing the na­tion that her Gov­ern­ment has been work­ing “qui­et­ly, steadi­ly, and de­ci­sive­ly” to keep peo­ple safe.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has as­sured that there is no cause for pan­ic, even as of­fi­cers of the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) main­tained a vis­i­ble pres­ence out­side the US Em­bassy on Queen’s Park West up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

With just days to go be­fore To­ba­go Car­ni­val, hun­dreds of mas­quer­aders are at risk of los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars in cos­tume de­posits be­cause they are un­able to se­cure flights to the is­land.

For­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of ne­glect­ing the na­tion’s youth and ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor in its 2026 na­tion­al bud­get, warn­ing that progress made over the past decade is be­ing re­versed.

To­ba­go West MP Joel Samp­son has strong­ly de­fend­ed the 2026 na­tion­al Bud­get, de­scrib­ing it as a fair and bal­anced fi­nan­cial plan that will dri­ve de­vel­op­ment acrossT&T. He al­so hailed it as one of the strongest bud­gets ever pre­sent­ed in Par­lia­ment.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says Op­po­si­tion Leader Pene­lope Beck­les-Robin­son mis­be­haved twice in Par­lia­ment last week, lead­ing to what he de­scribed as the col­lapse of the Op­po­si­tion’s re­sponse to the 2026 Bud­get de­bate.

Be­tween 2009 and 2023, more than $6.5 bil­lion was al­lo­cat­ed to the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), pro­vid­ing thou­sands of low-in­come fam­i­lies with an al­ter­na­tive source of in­come.

The T&T Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day re­it­er­at­ed why it is stand­ing apart from its Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) neigh­bours by de­clin­ing to sup­port a re­gion­al po­si­tion on key se­cu­ri­ty and sta­bil­i­ty is­sues, in­clud­ing the grow­ing US mil­i­tary pres­ence in the re­gion.

Fish­er­men op­er­at­ing at the Port-of-Spain Whole­sale Fish Mar­ket are ques­tion­ing the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Mar­ket­ing and De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (Nmde­v­co) over new lock­er fees.