Imam Shaykh Mu­naf Mo­hammed has ex­plained why some Mus­lims have cho­sen to cel­e­brate Eid on Fri­day and oth­ers on Sat­ur­day. 

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al says he sym­pa­this­es with work­ers of the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion and is ask­ing for pa­tience as the State pro­ceeds with new salary arrange­ments.

Mere days af­ter Sec­re­tary for Youth Em­pow­er­ment and Sport, Keigon De­noon promised more flights would be added to the air­bridge for the up­com­ing hol­i­day pe­ri­od, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has con­firmed it in­tends to op­er­ate an ad­di­tion­al 38 re­turn flights be­tween Trinidad & To­ba­go. Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease, be­tween March 27 and April 12, an ad­di­tion­al 2,584 seats will be avail­able on the air­bridge to meet the trav­el de­mand dur­ing the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion hol­i­day week­end and the East­er peak pe­ri­od.

Per­sons ex­er­cis­ing in and around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, par­tic­u­lar­ly near the La­dy Chan­cel­lor Hill are be­ing warned to be vig­i­lant when park­ing their ve­hi­cles in the area, fol­low­ing a string of thefts and rob­beries.

Vis­i­tor sur­veys at the Port of Spain Cruise Com­plex showed about 15,799 pas­sen­gers dis­em­barked to ex­plore Trinidad dur­ing the 2025/2026 cruise sea­son, with av­er­age spend­ing of US$59 per vis­i­tor and to­tal on­shore ex­pen­di­ture of US$932,141.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has re­port­ed two in­ci­dents of van­dal­ism at Pe­nal Wells #17 and #18 in South-West Trinidad.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says re­cent cas­es of vi­o­lence against women in Trinidad and To­ba­go re­quire na­tion­al ac­tion.

Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Prakash Per­sad is en­cour­ag­ing cit­i­zens, par­tic­u­lar­ly young peo­ple, to pur­sue train­ing in what he de­scribed as “AI-proof” ca­reers, as the world braces for the grow­ing im­pact of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence on the work­force.

Se­nior Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cer at the Caribbean Cen­tre for Re­new­able En­er­gy and En­er­gy Ef­fi­cien­cy, Char­lin Bod­ley, is urg­ing stronger glob­al com­mit­ments and fi­nanc­ing mech­a­nisms as the re­gion pre­pares for the first in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence ded­i­cat­ed to phas­ing out fos­sil fu­els.

Chuck Nor­ris, the mar­tial arts grand­mas­ter and ac­tion star whose roles in “Walk­er, Texas Ranger” and oth­er tele­vi­sion shows and movies made him an icon­ic tough guy — spark­ing in­ter­net par­o­dies and ado­ra­tion from pres­i­dents — has died at 86.

The lead­er­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is fac­ing mount­ing crit­i­cism over what some now see as a rift and are de­scrib­ing as a trou­bling lack of re­spect for for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and an ap­par­ent fail­ure to show hu­mil­i­ty to­ward long-stand­ing par­ty stal­warts.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has strong­ly con­demned re­marks made by for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley about Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that such lan­guage un­der­mines the dig­ni­ty of pub­lic of­fice and the stan­dard of na­tion­al lead­er­ship.