Plan­ning Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter in the Fi­nance Min­istry Kennedy Swarats­ingh says Gov­ern­ment’s $2.9 bil­lion mid-year sup­ple­men­ta­tion is aimed at strength­en­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty while cre­at­ing the con­di­tions nec­es­sary for long-term eco­nom­ic growth.

In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors Mar­lene Attzs and Fran­cis Lewis are warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go could face mount­ing fis­cal pres­sures, cit­ing ris­ing debt, per­sis­tent for­eign ex­change short­ages and weak eco­nom­ic growth.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment is prepar­ing to strength­en Trinidad and To­ba­go’s im­mi­gra­tion laws to im­pose jail sen­tences on de­port­ed mi­grants who il­le­gal­ly re-en­ter the coun­try.

Teach­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go are of­fi­cial­ly with­draw­ing all ser­vices out­side their strict job de­scrip­tions, with the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) ad­vis­ing ed­u­ca­tors to take men­tal health days as frus­tra­tion over un­paid back­pay in­ten­si­fies.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) says it has sought le­gal ad­vice over the ex­is­tence of a con­tro­ver­sial “pro­tect­ed list” of cus­tomers shield­ed from the nor­mal dis­con­nec­tion process for un­paid elec­tric­i­ty bills, ad­mit­ting there is no doc­u­ment­ed pol­i­cy, pro­ce­dure or record ex­plain­ing how cer­tain in­di­vid­u­als and pri­vate com­pa­nies came to be in­clud­ed.

A 67-year-old San­ta Cruz man has been ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a home­made shot­gun and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has de­clined to say whether it sup­ports the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to des­ig­nate 15 no-protest zones across Trinidad and To­ba­go, dis­tanc­ing it­self from a grow­ing dis­pute that has seen 13 trade unions threat­en le­gal ac­tion over the mea­sure.

Bap­tiste was speak­ing in the Sen­ate as he pi­lot­ed and con­clud­ed de­bate on the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um, Paria Fu­el Trad­ing and Guaracara Re­fin­ing Vest­ing) (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026.

Hunger and frus­tra­tion turned to anger last night as pas­sen­gers aboard the Galleons Pas­sage en­dured a painstak­ing nine-hour jour­ney to To­ba­go.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty has promised a “favourable rental struc­ture” for small and mi­cro en­ter­pris­es at the new ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go.

A 58-year-old Ari­ma man who ad­mit­ted to stab­bing his nephew to death while ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a schiz­o­phrenic episode has been sen­tenced to al­most nine years in prison.

A plumber from Ch­agua­nas has been ac­quit­ted of the statu­to­ry rape of a teenage neigh­bour in 2010.