Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Roodal Mooni­lal has high­light­ed some of his min­istry’s ar­eas of fo­cus for the coun­try’s en­er­gy sec­tor, in­clud­ing the re-emer­gence of T&T as the “en­er­gy leader of the Caribbean” by lever­ag­ing his­to­ry, knowl­edge and peo­ple.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced the com­ple­tion of elec­tri­cal re­pairs at the Sev­en Seas Wa­ter (SSW) owned Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant. 

The fate of sev­er­al ma­jor youth in­ter­ven­tion pro­grammes—in­clud­ing the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC), the Mil­i­tary-Led Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (Mi­LAT) Pro­gramme, and the Mil­i­tary-Led Youth Pro­gramme of Ap­pren­tice­ship and Re­ori­en­ta­tion Train­ing (MY­PART)—re­mains un­cer­tain, with Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts in­di­cat­ing a fi­nal de­ci­sion has yet to be made.

Pride TT is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to act de­ci­sive­ly to safe­guard the LGBTQIA+ com­mu­ni­ty by im­ple­ment­ing sev­er­al im­me­di­ate mea­sures.

Dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Food and Agri­cul­ture at UWI St Au­gus­tine, Pro­fes­sor Mark Wud­di­vi­ra, is call­ing on Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram to ag­gres­sive­ly pur­sue agri­cul­tur­al tourism as a vi­able eco­nom­ic dri­ver for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Pres­i­dent of the Fa­thers As­so­ci­a­tion, Rhon­dell Fee­les, is call­ing for ex­tend­ed pa­ter­ni­ty leave, warn­ing that poli­cies geared on­ly to­ward women will con­tin­ue to ex­clude and mar­gin­alise fa­thers.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of elec­tri­cal re­pairs at the Sev­en Seas Wa­ter (SSW) owned Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant. 

May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says the per­sis­tent flood­ing chal­lenges plagu­ing the Bor­ough of Ch­agua­nas are the re­sult of years of in­fra­struc­tur­al ne­glect and can­not be re­solved overnight.

The Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) has re­leased a pub­lic ad­vi­so­ry list­ing ar­eas across Trinidad and To­ba­go where flood­ing has been re­port­ed, as the na­tion re­mains un­der a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with key na­tion­al agen­cies, has is­sued a Riv­er Lev­el Ad­vi­so­ry as of 1:30 PM on Sat­ur­day, May 18, 2025.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (RDLG) has ac­ti­vat­ed a com­pre­hen­sive na­tion­al re­sponse to Ad­verse Weath­er Alert #2 – Yel­low Lev­el, which re­mains in ef­fect from 6:00 PM on Sat­ur­day, May 17, to 6:00 PM on Mon­day, May 19, 2025.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has asked mem­bers of his par­ty to get ready for the next THA elec­tion—even though no date has been an­nounced.