Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is “not wor­ried” about the diplo­mat­ic chal­lenges sur­round­ing her planned meet­ing with Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez at the up­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.

While Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh says the Gov­ern­ment’s Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Amend­ment Bill 2026 does not abol­ish state agency pub­li­ca­tions in news­pa­pers, for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young SC says the bill is a clear sign that the UNC Gov­ern­ment in­tends pub­lish­ing in news­pa­pers “less and less.”

For­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship min­is­ter Dr De­vant Ma­haraj is warn­ing that pro­posed amend­ments to the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) could weak­en gov­ern­ment trans­paren­cy, ac­cus­ing the UNC ad­min­is­tra­tion of un­der­min­ing leg­is­la­tion it in­tro­duced more than two decades ago.

A man­u­fac­tur­er’s de­fect in a re­cent­ly in­stalled air-con­di­tion­ing unit at the Ma­ter­ni­ty Ward of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (PoS­GH) has been iden­ti­fied as the cause of yes­ter­day’s evac­u­a­tion af­ter smoke trig­gered the build­ing’s fire alarm sys­tem.

Pres­i­dent of the In­dus­tri­al Court Heather Seale has high­light­ed staffing short­ages and in­fra­struc­ture prob­lems at the court, ap­peal­ing to the au­thor­i­ties to make fund­ing avail­able to ad­dress the is­sues.

A law­suit seek­ing more than $100,000 in out­stand­ing rent al­leged­ly owed by a now-de­funct greet­ing card and gift store owned by Ca­roni Cen­tral MP and Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has been with­drawn.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the Gov­ern­ment has a team work­ing to get the new Cen­tral Block of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal "up and run­ning once and for all," but she has not pro­vid­ed a time­line for when the fa­cil­i­ty will be­come op­er­a­tional.

A Unit­ed King­dom-based dig­i­tal jour­nal­ist has been or­dered to pay over $250,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to an em­ploy­ee of the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, who he named as be­ing part of an al­leged plot to desta­bilise the coun­try. 

The Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA) is call­ing for a bal­ance be­tween dis­ci­pline and sup­port af­ter four school­boys were pub­licly filmed apol­o­gis­ing for fight­ing on the first day of the new school term.

The fate of a To­ba­go school­boy, who was pre­vi­ous­ly de­tained fol­low­ing the death of his el­der­ly rel­a­tive, re­mains un­cer­tain.

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo yes­ter­day in­struct­ed a Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Of­fi­cer to es­cort a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) al­der­man from a spe­cial statu­to­ry meet­ing of the Siparia Bor­ough Coun­cil, prompt­ing the oth­er PNM coun­cil­lors to walk out.

The Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union (CGW­TU) is de­mand­ing that the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion be­gin cal­cu­lat­ing out­stand­ing back­pay owed to dai­ly-paid work­ers.