Trinidad and To­ba­go will open its first em­bassy in the Mid­dle East, in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE), For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers an­nounced yes­ter­day.

For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go high com­mis­sion­er to In­dia Dave Per­sad is ac­cus­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of go­ing too far in try­ing to please the Unit­ed States, warn­ing that prag­ma­tism should not be­come “grov­el­ling” at the ex­pense of the coun­try’s dig­ni­ty and self-re­spect.

The Sen­ate has unan­i­mous­ly ap­proved leg­is­la­tion paving the way for li­censed re­mote gam­bling in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with Gov­ern­ment, Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors sup­port­ing the mea­sure while rais­ing is­sues about reg­u­la­tion, con­sumer pro­tec­tion and for­eign ex­change.

In the wake of the an­nounce­ment of Bud­get Day, lo­cal econ­o­mists wide­ly agree that all in­di­ca­tors sug­gest that Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is un­like­ly to de­liv­er a pre­sen­ta­tion with a pro­ject­ed wind­fall on Oc­to­ber 12.

Econ­o­mist and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Mar­lene Attzs is hop­ing to see a strength­ened re­la­tion­ship be­tween this coun­try and Venezuela through so­lid­i­fied gas deals be­ing iden­ti­fied in this year’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) has con­demned Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s crit­i­cism of in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors fol­low­ing their re­jec­tion of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment risks cre­at­ing a cul­ture in which dis­agree­ment with those in pow­er car­ries con­se­quences.

Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent Michael An­nisette says port work­ers have re­turned to their jobs af­ter man­age­ment be­gan ad­dress­ing some of the health and safe­ty con­cerns which trig­gered days of in­de­pen­dent protest ac­tion at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) record­ed 265 homi­cides be­tween Jan­u­ary and Sep­tem­ber this year, a 3.6 per cent de­crease com­pared with the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od in 2025 and a 44.2 per cent de­cline com­pared with 2024.

A woman po­lice con­sta­ble (WPC) was ar­rest­ed and re­mained in po­lice cus­tody yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing an al­leged rob­bery on Thurs­day.

The High Court has award­ed Dil­lon Pe­ters $300,000 in dam­ages af­ter rul­ing in his favour in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit against the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al over crim­i­nal charges that took 14 years to con­clude.

Scav­engers and work­ers at the For­res Park land­fill in Clax­ton Bay were left hor­ri­fied short­ly be­fore mid­day yes­ter­day, af­ter what ap­peared to be hu­man re­mains were dis­cov­ered in­side sev­er­al buck­ets in a large met­al waste bin.

The Coali­tion Against Do­mes­tic Vi­o­lence (CADV) is call­ing for ur­gent im­prove­ments to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­sponse to do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, warn­ing that gaps in the jus­tice sys­tem and vic­tim sup­port ser­vices con­tin­ue to put women and chil­dren at risk.