The Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS) will soon un­der­go an in­de­pen­dent foren­sic au­dit as its board has dis­cov­ered ev­i­dence of sus­pi­cious ad­vanced pay­ments to con­trac­tors with­out proof of work ac­tu­al­ly be­ing done.

Even as mil­lions of dol­lars in for­eign ex­change are spent on im­port­ing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, gaps in over­sight and co­or­di­na­tion be­tween State agen­cies are cre­at­ing con­di­tions ripe for abuse, in­clud­ing over­pric­ing and cor­rup­tion, House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh warned.

Tamei­ka Dar­ius has been crowned Na­tion­al Ca­lyp­so Queen for 2026, claim­ing one of the Car­ni­val sea­son’s most sought-af­ter ti­tles.

A del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates paid a cour­tesy call on the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence dur­ing an of­fi­cial vis­it to this coun­try.

Po­lice are search­ing for a home­less Venezue­lan mi­grant sus­pect­ed of stab­bing a man and set­ting a house ablaze dur­ing a vi­o­lent ear­ly-morn­ing at­tack in Rio Claro on Sun­day.

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are yet to de­tain any­one in the sus­pect­ed killing of 65-year-old Mer­ril Sabessar, as they await the re­sults of a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.

Six­teen Sec­re­taries and As­sis­tant Sec­re­taries of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly took the Oath of Of­fice on Mon­day.

A del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates paid a cour­tesy vis­it to the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence dur­ing an of­fi­cial vis­it to this coun­try.

Crick­et West In­dies has an­nounced the West In­dies squad for the ICC T20 World Cup fol­low­ing an as­sess­ment process fo­cused on prepa­ra­tion for con­di­tions in In­dia and Sri Lan­ka.

The Gov­ern­ment com­plet­ed the is­suance of a US$1 bil­lion sov­er­eign bond in the Unit­ed States mar­ket on last Thurs­day.

As reg­is­tra­tion of­fi­cial­ly opened on Mon­day, some mi­grants seek­ing to reg­u­larise their sta­tus en­coun­tered dif­fi­cul­ties ac­cess­ing the on­line plat­form, rais­ing con­cerns among ad­vo­cates and ser­vice providers as­sist­ing with the process.

The T&T En­er­gy Cham­ber opened its 2026 con­fer­ence by di­rect­ly ad­dress­ing crit­i­cism from the gov­ern­ment, pledg­ing a "com­pre­hen­sive re­view" of its op­er­a­tions af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Ka­mal Per­sad-Bisses­sar and state en­ter­pris­es with­drew their sup­port from the flag­ship event.