For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is al­leg­ing that the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) qui­et­ly in­creased fees for in­spec­tions and ap­provals by be­tween 100% and 700%, ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 1.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing four uniden­ti­fied bod­ies found in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion be­tween Sep­tem­ber 2024 and Jan­u­ary 2026.

The Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates Court was evac­u­at­ed on Thurs­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a bomb threat.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is set to ex­pand its wa­ter tank sup­ple­ment pro­gramme to help vul­ner­a­ble fam­i­lies pre­pare for wors­en­ing dry con­di­tions.

Trinidad and To­ba­go could face even hot­ter con­di­tions in the com­ing months, with To­ba­go al­so be­ing warned to pre­pare for pos­si­ble drought-like con­di­tions.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has ad­mon­ished the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion for its late start to the school re­pair pro­gramme.

This year’s In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works dis­play will be com­plete­ly silent, but of­fi­cials promise the cul­tur­al cel­e­bra­tions lead­ing up to it will be loud, vi­brant and pa­tri­ot­ic.

The Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­place tra­di­tion­al fire­works with a full drone show and silent fire­works dis­play for this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions is be­ing wel­comed by an­i­mal wel­fare ad­vo­cates and Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion (CANPTT), who say the move could sig­nal a shift in how T&T cel­e­brates ma­jor na­tion­al and re­li­gious oc­ca­sions.

The con­tracts of more than 1,000 ten-on, ten-off work­ers em­ployed by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Di­vi­sion of In­fra­struc­ture have been ter­mi­nat­ed.

Sky­watch­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go may want to stay up a lit­tle lat­er tonight, as one of the year’s more im­pres­sive ce­les­tial shows un­folds di­rect­ly over­head.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says he has seen “shock­ing” doc­u­ments con­nect­ed to cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions raised by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning against mem­bers of his own Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), but is re­fus­ing to dis­close how the in­for­ma­tion came in­to his pos­ses­sion.

Po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor and poll­ster Dr Mwale Hen­ry says the es­ca­lat­ing in­ter­nal con­flict with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is ex­pos­ing a wider prob­lem of in­dis­ci­pline and lead­er­ship with­in the Op­po­si­tion par­ty.