From June 1, the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices will have a re­vised el­i­gi­bil­i­ty Stan­dard Means test al­low­ing more low-in­come and vul­ner­a­ble per­sons to qual­i­fy for State sup­port. This in­cludes house­holds af­fect­ed by the dis­con­tin­u­a­tion of the Com­mu­ni­ty En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP).

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has an­nounced a tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion of ser­vices at the Princes Town Li­cens­ing Of­fice due to a sched­uled elec­tric­i­ty dis­rup­tion. The in­ter­rup­tion will oc­cur on Wednes­day, 13 May 2026, be­tween 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., leav­ing the of­fice with­out pow­er dur­ing that pe­ri­od.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to dri­ving na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment and fos­ter­ing in­no­va­tion dur­ing the open­ing of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­al En­gi­neers of Trinidad and To­ba­go (APETT) Tech­ni­cal Con­fer­ence 2026.

The Min­istry of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­leged breach­es of labour laws in­volv­ing work­ers at two su­per­mar­kets fol­low­ing claims made in a Face­book post.