More than 300 work­ers at the Hilton Trinidad & Con­fer­ence Cen­tre are fac­ing an un­cer­tain fu­ture af­ter Hilton In­ter­na­tion­al Trinidad Lim­it­ed warned it could stop op­er­at­ing the land­mark ho­tel on Sep­tem­ber 18 if a new agree­ment with State-owned Evolv­ing Tec­Knolo­gies and En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (eTeCK) is not fi­nalised.

The Gov­ern­ment has paid more than $293 mil­lion in fu­el sub­si­dies for au­to­mo­tive diesel so far this year, ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed by the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries in a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act re­sponse.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go men's hock­ey team had to set­tle for the sil­ver medal af­ter go­ing down to long-time ri­vals Cu­ba 2-1 on sud­den-death penal­ty strokes af­ter a 2-2 draw in their fi­nal of the 2026 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games at the Field Hock­ey Sta­di­um in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Tues­day.

Along Trinidad’s north-east­ern coast­line, where the At­lantic Ocean meets the vil­lages of Ba­lan­dra, To­co and Matelot, lies Ram­panal­gas, a com­mu­ni­ty whose sto­ry has been writ­ten by the hands of co­conut work­ers, fish­er­men, farm­ers and gen­er­a­tions of fam­i­lies who built their lives around the land and the sea.

The Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish 30 joint army-po­lice posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go is, on the face of it, a wel­come re­sponse to the coun­try's crime prob­lem.