The Supreme Court struck down Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s far-reach­ing glob­al tar­iffs on Fri­day, hand­ing him a sig­nif­i­cant loss on an is­sue cru­cial to his eco­nom­ic agen­da.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Thurs­day that he’s di­rect­ing the Pen­ta­gon and oth­er gov­ern­ment agen­cies to iden­ti­fy and re­lease files re­lat­ed to ex­trater­res­tri­als and UFOs be­cause of “tremen­dous in­ter­est.”

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has raised con­cern over se­ri­ous op­er­a­tional chal­lenges af­fect­ing car­go move­ment be­tween Port of Spain and To­ba­go, warn­ing that the con­straints are dis­rupt­ing sup­ply chains and in­creas­ing costs for busi­ness­es.

Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have de­fend­ed the over­all se­cu­ri­ty and fi­nan­cial man­age­ment of Car­ni­val 2026, de­scrib­ing the sea­son as one of the safest in 20 years, de­spite in­ci­dents of vi­o­lence be­ing re­port­ed.

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin yes­ter­day de­clared Car­ni­val 2026 a suc­cess, cit­ing vis­i­tor ar­rivals, job cre­ation and strong at­ten­dance at events.

For­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis is wel­com­ing calls for a probe in­to the in­ci­dent in which his au­dio went dead on TTT while he was per­form­ing at the Ca­lyp­so Monarch Fi­nals at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Sun­day.

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Nicholas Mor­ris has pushed back against mount­ing crit­i­cism fol­low­ing the au­dio dis­rup­tion that af­fect­ed for­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch Helon Fran­cis dur­ing Sun­day’s Di­manche Gras show, de­clar­ing that the gov­ern­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is not afraid of cri­tique.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s con­tin­ued use of a Unit­ed States–sup­plied radar sys­tem in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go, as he al­so brushed aside ques­tions about the pos­si­ble pres­ence of US mil­i­tary per­son­nel and con­cerns over trans­paren­cy and na­tion­al sov­er­eign­ty.

New­ly mint­ed 2026 Road March cham­pi­on Machel Mon­tano yes­ter­day de­fend­ed him­self against claims on so­cial me­dia that he was mov­ing from truck to truck on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day to un­fair­ly push his En­core for the ti­tle race.

Vet­er­an To­ba­go band­leader Mar­cellin Nedd has de­scribed the 2026 na­tion­al cel­e­bra­tions on the is­land as the “worst ever.”

Lost Tribe and K2K Al­liance & Part­ners have ex­tend­ed their dom­i­nant Car­ni­val 2026 run by cap­tur­ing the top Port-of-Spain Down­town Car­ni­val Com­mit­tee ti­tles in the Large and Medi­um Band cat­e­gories.

For­mer chair­man of the En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion, Sunil Sookraj, has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Cab­i­net of hypocrisy over the de­ci­sion to re­voke his ap­point­ment, cit­ing his per­ceived links to the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).