Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help (NC­SH) Lim­it­ed have vis­it­ed the Laven­tille Road, San Juan home of Adan­na Winn, who has been liv­ing in a se­vere­ly di­lap­i­dat­ed struc­ture for years. How­ev­er, she was left dis­ap­point­ed af­ter be­ing de­nied a grant for re­fur­bish­ment works.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of South Trinidad cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions have warned the Gov­ern­ment that they may seek le­gal reme­dies af­ter abrupt bans on key event venues jeop­ar­dised prepa­ra­tions for Car­ni­val 2026.

Re­tired Coast Guard Lt Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al says there is no need for con­cern fol­low­ing a re­cruit­ment ad­ver­tise­ment for the De­fence Force re­serves, as such prac­tices have been the norm in the mil­i­tary for some time.

A 32-year-old moth­er of two from Ch­agua­nas has been re­leased on bail af­ter plead­ing guilty to in­cit­ing vi­o­lence to­wards gov­ern­ment mem­bers in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia posts. 

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says Colm Im­bert is be­ing disin­gen­u­ous and pre­tend­ing to care about the “small man” in his crit­i­cism of the Fi­nance Bill, when in re­al­i­ty he is seek­ing to pro­tect his own in­ter­ests.

South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) chair­man Anil Go­sine says the au­thor­i­ty has be­gun re­cruit­ing 40 new nurs­es as part of plans to re­open the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal and to main­tain ex­tend­ed pa­tient ser­vices in out­ly­ing com­mu­ni­ties like Ce­dros and Moru­ga.

For­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says the Gov­ern­ment must ex­am­ine the dis­pos­al of an es­ti­mat­ed $80 mil­lion in ex­pired phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

De­spite San Fer­nan­do be­ing the na­tion’s in­dus­tri­al cap­i­tal – sur­round­ed by petro­chem­i­cal plants, en­er­gy com­pa­nies and heavy in­dus­try – spe­cialised burn care re­mains un­avail­able in T&T, and se­vere cas­es con­tin­ue to be flown over­seas for life­sav­ing treat­ment.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad has warned at­tor­neys and lit­i­gants to be pre­pared to re­turn to phys­i­cal court­rooms for tri­als of civ­il law­suits.

A High Court Judge has in­val­i­dat­ed a po­lice mer­it list for sergeants (Sgts) seek­ing pro­mo­tion to the rank of In­spec­tor that was pro­duced by the Pro­mo­tions Ad­vi­so­ry Board (PAB) in 2020.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­spond­ed to ques­tions from Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les about the in­stal­la­tion of a new radar sys­tem in To­ba­go, ac­cus­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of at­tempt­ing to com­pro­mise na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA), Dr Denise Tsoiafatt An­gus has con­firmed that the par­ty is in the process of chang­ing its po­ten­tial can­di­date for Belle Gar­den/Glam­or­gan, af­ter its pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced can­di­date, Tevin Duke, was sen­tenced to three months and 24 days in prison.