Min­is­ter of Labour and Small and Mi­cro En­ter­pris­es Leroy Bap­tiste has an­nounced sweep­ing amend­ments to the Ma­ter­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Act and the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act (RS­BA), cit­ing long-stand­ing gaps and the ur­gent need to bet­ter pro­tect work­ers fac­ing job loss.

De­spite fin­ish­ing sec­ond in both the pre­lim­i­nary and se­mi-fi­nal rounds of the 2026 Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Con­ven­tion­al Bands com­pe­ti­tion, To­ba­go’s Up­town Fas­ci­na­tors rose to the mo­ment on Sat­ur­day night, daz­zling a mod­est but com­mit­ted crowd at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, to cap­ture the na­tion­al ti­tle along­side Siparia’s South­ern Stars Steel Or­ches­tra.

For two months, res­i­dents of Leon Street, Laven­tille, claim they have had to deal with a grow­ing mound of garbage in their neigh­bour­hood, as san­i­ta­tion work­ers have stopped col­lect­ing the refuse.

As 2026 dawned, two young sis­ters marked the New Year not just with cel­e­bra­tion, but with ac­com­plish­ment—launch­ing their very first chil­dren’s books along­side their proud par­ents.

Min­is­ter of Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, has dis­missed claims that so­cial grants are be­ing paid late, in­sist­ing that her min­istry has met its pay­ment oblig­a­tions, and warns against what she de­scribed as de­lib­er­ate mis­in­for­ma­tion.

A 39-year-old man, who was held with a gun in Orop­une Gar­dens, Pi­ar­co, at­tempt­ed to ex­plain his sit­u­a­tion to po­lice be­fore be­ing ar­rest­ed on Sat­ur­day night.

A 25-year-old Laven­tille man is in po­lice cus­tody, af­ter he was caught by a busi­ness own­er and the po­lice min­utes af­ter he broke in­to a store in down­town Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night.

The Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) has with­drawn its case against the T&T Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny (NP) and a cook­ing gas dis­trib­u­tor over a gas ex­plo­sion in Mar­aval in Feb­ru­ary 2015. 

A 45-year-old man was hos­pi­talised af­ter be­ing shot at a friend’s home in Moru­ga on Fri­day night.

A con­tract­ing com­pa­ny has won its law­suit over the fail­ure of State-owned project man­age­ment com­pa­ny Ed­u­ca­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EF­CL) to pay it over $300,000 in fees for a ter­mi­nat­ed con­tract. 

The Gov­ern­ment plans sweep­ing changes to the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act to pre­vent em­ploy­ers from avoid­ing sev­er­ance pay­ments through in­sol­ven­cy, tem­po­rary lay­offs or stag­gered job cuts, Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste an­nounced at a press con­fer­ence at UNC head­quar­ters on Sun­day.

Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste an­nounced Cab­i­net has ap­proved sweep­ing amend­ments to the Ma­ter­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Act and the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act, ex­tend­ing paid leave and work­place pro­tec­tions to fa­thers and adop­tive par­ents while re­mov­ing long-crit­i­cised re­stric­tions on ma­ter­ni­ty ben­e­fits.