Forty-six-year-old Clyde Mansano of Mt. Dor Road, Champs Fleurs, was grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on a charge of bribery re­lat­ed to the April 28, 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The sex traf­fick­ing tri­al of Sean “Did­dy” Combs, one of the biggest mu­sic moguls and cul­tur­al fig­ures of the past four decades, be­gan Mon­day in New York with ju­ry se­lec­tion. Twelve ju­rors, along with six al­ter­nates, will be cho­sen, with open­ing state­ments ex­pect­ed to be­gin May 12. The tri­al is ex­pect­ed to last at least eight weeks. Here’s a look at some of the de­tails.

The three-day Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) health re­search con­fer­ence aimed at ad­dress­ing press­ing health chal­lenges and seek ac­tion­able so­lu­tions gets un­der­way here on Wednes­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was forced to work from home on what would have been her first of­fi­cial day in of­fice yes­ter­day, due to what Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says is the “dys­func­tion­al” and un­fit state of White­hall in Port-of-Spain.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo has a lot to do in his new port­fo­lio and does not yet have a re­port to pro­vide to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on the state of the Trea­sury and the econ­o­my.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin be­lieves that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s goal of hav­ing a more se­cure coun­try in six months is re­al­is­tic and says some progress has al­ready been ob­served by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), as ev­i­denced by a drop in this year’s mur­der toll.

New­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath says he will fo­cus on a strong, peo­ple-fo­cused agen­da to re­form and re­vi­talise the pub­lic util­i­ties sec­tor in T&T.

Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment David Lee says he is al­ready “swamped with re­quests” for hous­ing.

Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son is ex­pect­ed to re­ceive her in­s­tu­ment of ap­point­ment as Op­po­si­tion Leader to­day .

For­mer Cou­va South Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Rudranath In­dars­ingh says he has not been promised any po­si­tion in Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Gov­ern­ment but in­sists there is no rift with his po­lit­i­cal leader.

A for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP is tipped to be the Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism, ac­cord­ing to par­ty sources.

While he’s no longer this coun­try’s En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter, Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West MP-elect Stu­art Young is con­cerned fol­low­ing com­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fu­ture gas deals, now that she be­lieves the “Drag­on is dead.”