A 23-year-old man has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of 44-year-old Tri­cia Mara­jh.

For one week, a dig­i­tal cam­paign promised a new era of ef­fi­cien­cy at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port—a seam­less merg­er of do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al de­par­tures aimed at bring­ing in­ter-is­land trav­el in line with glob­al avi­a­tion stan­dards.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­firmed that a pro­pos­al to in­tro­duce two dai­ly un­sub­sidised Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge is un­der re­view by the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism, but has not yet reached Cab­i­net.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he has been as­sured that the sub­sidy of flights on the air­bridge will re­main in­tact.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, ac­cus­ing him of fail­ing to act in the best in­ter­est of cit­i­zens via a pro­pos­al to in­tro­duce un­sub­sidised do­mes­tic air­fares.

Four In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors are back­ing Gov­ern­ment’s con­sid­er­a­tion to in­tro­duce un­sub­sidised flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge, a move that could see fares for some flights dou­ble.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day says cit­i­zens are fac­ing fur­ther fi­nan­cial strain as Gov­ern­ment weighs a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in do­mes­tic air­fares.

Car­ni­val stake­hold­ers have ex­pressed con­cern over an al­leged Cab­i­net note in­volv­ing the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), say­ing they were not prop­er­ly con­sult­ed on a key move af­fect­ing the man­age­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val.

The first year of a gov­ern­ment’s term is wide­ly con­sid­ered its “hon­ey­moon pe­ri­od,” mak­ing the leg­isla­tive agen­da es­tab­lished dur­ing this time a crit­i­cal de­ter­mi­nant of the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s long-term vi­a­bil­i­ty and cred­i­bil­i­ty.

The Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, will re­vise and in­crease sev­er­ance ben­e­fits payable to work­ers, pro­tect work­ers in groups few­er than five, in­tro­duce tem­po­rary lay­offs and pri­ori­tise re­hir­ing of re­trenched work­ers, says Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste.

Al­most eight years af­ter five men were sum­mar­i­ly ex­e­cut­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers near their Laven­tille homes, the State has been or­dered to pay their fam­i­lies over $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to two men, who were ac­cused of hav­ing sex in a car on so­cial me­dia af­ter they were ar­rest­ed for breach­ing a cur­few dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic.