The State has been or­dered to pay over $700,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a man from Co­corite, who was re­mand­ed for 18 months af­ter be­ing false­ly ac­cused of be­ing in pos­ses­sion of a bul­let proof vest to as­sist a gang. 

The US Em­bassy had to wait three months, be­tween May and Au­gust 2025, to get a san­i­tary de­ter­mi­na­tion to erect tem­po­rary liv­ing quar­ters for the work­force con­struct­ing its new fa­cil­i­ty, ac­cord­ing to Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh yes­ter­day.

De­bate will be held in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day (Wednes­day) on the Gov­ern­ment's bill to re­move the re­quire­ment for State agen­cies to pub­lish an­nu­al pub­lic state­ments in a dai­ly news­pa­per and re­place it with a re­quire­ment for those state­ments to be pub­lished ei­ther in a news­pa­per or on a pub­licly ac­ces­si­ble web­site.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices have seized ap­prox­i­mate­ly $1 bil­lion worth of il­le­gal drugs since the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) came in­to of­fice last year.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's San Fer­nan­do East par­ty groups have so far com­plet­ed in­ter­nal elec­tions for 11 of the 30 groups, with the re­main­ing 19 ex­pect­ed to com­plete the ex­er­cise by Sep­tem­ber 25.

The Gov­ern­ment’s $1 re­duc­tion in the price of Su­per Gaso­line in the last bud­get has re­sult­ed in an ad­di­tion­al $318 mil­lion fu­el sub­sidy re­quire­ment fol­low­ing ris­ing glob­al fu­el prices.

Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John has called for greater re­spon­si­bil­i­ty from busi­ness­es and cit­i­zens in main­tain­ing Port-of-Spain, warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment can­not car­ry the bur­den of keep­ing the cap­i­tal clean and its drainage sys­tem func­tion­ing on its own.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to face above-av­er­age tem­per­a­tures and be­low-nor­mal rain­fall over the next three months, with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) fore­cast­ing a high prob­a­bil­i­ty of ten three-day hot spells and two five-day hot spells dur­ing Oc­to­ber.

Re­pairs to a Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) main that rup­tured in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day morn­ing have been com­plet­ed, and wa­ter ser­vice has been re­stored to cus­tomers on Cof­fee and Lord Streets.

An on­go­ing dis­pute be­tween a sub­con­trac­tor and the main con­trac­tor at the Land­mark­TT hous­ing project in Ste Madeleine es­ca­lat­ed yes­ter­day when the sub­con­trac­tor locked the gates of the con­struc­tion site, prompt­ing po­lice in­ter­ven­tion.

Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) chair­man Kern Dass and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary Vive­ka Par­gass have threat­ened to sue Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer for defama­tion.

To­ba­go fish­er­men are de­mand­ing con­sul­ta­tion be­fore any drilling takes place in To­ba­go wa­ters.