No ev­i­dence was pre­sent­ed to sup­port al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion made by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning, San Fer­nan­do East ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is, or their wit­ness­es, ac­cord­ing to Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu, who led the par­ty’s in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.

Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go Geor­gia-Lee Gill has se­cured a place in the Top 40 of Miss World 2026 af­ter win­ning the Amer­i­c­as and Caribbean re­gion­al leg of the Head-to-Head Chal­lenge.

The Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help Lim­it­ed (NC­SHL), Lester Leu, has been placed on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave with pay as the state-owned agency in­ves­ti­gates a se­ries of mis­con­duct al­le­ga­tions, in­clud­ing breach­es of pro­cure­ment pro­ce­dures, fail­ure to com­ply with board di­rec­tives and ac­tions al­leged­ly aimed at un­der­min­ing the board’s au­thor­i­ty.

Econ­o­mist Dr In­dera Sage­wan says changes to state boards fol­low­ing a change in gov­ern­ment are nor­mal, but new ap­pointees must pos­sess the skills and ex­pe­ri­ence nec­es­sary to lead in­sti­tu­tions ef­fec­tive­ly.