The board of the First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (FCGFH) has ten­dered its res­ig­na­tion to­day, ahead of to­mor­row’s spe­cial gen­er­al meet­ing at which new board mem­bers are sched­uled to be nom­i­nat­ed.

The Eu­ro­pean Union Del­e­ga­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Am­bas­sador Ce­cile Tassin as the new Eu­ro­pean Union Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go. Am­bas­sador Tassin pre­sent­ed her cre­den­tials to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo, ORTT, fol­low­ing a cour­tesy call to the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is ad­vis­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tives of in­ter­na­tion­al brands Nike and Puma to do­nate con­fis­cat­ed knock­offs of their prod­ucts, with the lo­gos re­moved, in­stead of de­stroy­ing them.

In con­tin­ued ef­forts to re­duce se­ri­ous crime and dis­rupt the il­lic­it drug trade, the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU), un­der the lead­er­ship of ACP Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion Richard Smith and su­per­vi­sion of Ag. ASP St. Clair, con­duct­ed two op­er­a­tions on Sun­day, 5th Oc­to­ber 2025, in the Cen­tral and South­ern Di­vi­sions.

The chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al (SRI), Adam Stew­art, says the com­pa­ny will in 2026 be­gin work­ing on the de­sign of the Beach­es re­sort it in­tends to build here.

By the end of 2025, pas­sen­ger traf­fic in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean is ex­pect­ed to reach 789 mil­lion. And at a pro­ject­ed pas­sen­ger com­pound an­nu­al growth rate of 2.9%, the same rate as the glob­al av­er­age, one bil­lion pas­sen­gers are ex­pect­ed to trav­el through the re­gion’s air­ports by 2032.

The Prime Min­is­ter is blam­ing “leaked in­fo” for the con­fu­sion last evening over the bud­get date.

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CCIC) has wel­comed the an­nounce­ment that the Na­tion­al Bud­get 2025/2026 will be pre­sent­ed on Mon­day, Oc­to­ber 13.

Ikeisha Wild­man, al­so known as Free­da, of There­sa Street, Mara­bel­la, suc­cumbed to her in­juries at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo will present the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get in Par­lia­ment on Mon­day 13th Oc­to­ber at 1:30 p.m.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called out Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, urg­ing her to ex­plain the mis­man­age­ment of the 2026 Bud­get date. Beck­les is al­so warn­ing again that if the Bud­get isn't passed be­fore Oc­to­ber 31, the Pub­lic Ser­vice will be forced to cease op­er­a­tions from No­vem­ber 1st.

The 2025/2026 Bud­get is tipped to be de­liv­ered on Mon­day (Oc­to­ber 13), say Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.