The Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment is pro­vid­ing train­ing and equip­ment to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency to im­prove the man­age­ment of its dis­as­ter re­lief ware­hous­es.

One man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore an Ari­ma mag­is­trate to face charges of drug traf­fick­ing af­ter po­lice found a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na at a house in Ari­ma ear­ly to­day.

The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is call­ing on Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Clyde El­der to in­ter­vene in the on­go­ing dis­pute be­tween the union and the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), as ten­sions es­ca­late over ex­ec­u­tive spend­ing and stalled wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Dr Daryl Din­di­al says Gov­ern­ment is main­tain­ing its po­si­tion that the set­tle­ment of back­pay ar­rears owed to mem­bers of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) must in­volve a com­bi­na­tion of cash and non-cash pay­ments.

The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) has main­tained the Gov­ern­ment’s five per cent salary of­fer for the 2020–2022 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­od for the TTPS and Fire Ser­vice, even as their rep­re­sen­ta­tive unions con­tin­ue to press for high­er in­creas­es.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­ti­vat­ed what is be­ing de­scribed as the sec­ond phase of her Gov­ern­ment’s crime sup­pres­sion strat­e­gy, fol­low­ing high-lev­el talks with se­nior of­fi­cials from Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM) in Do­ral, Flori­da, yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is seek­ing to re­as­sure that the re­cent­ly formed mil­i­tary al­liance be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go, Guyana and the Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion will ul­ti­mate­ly ben­e­fit all of Cari­com.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­perts are ques­tion­ing the long-term ben­e­fits of Trinidad and To­ba­go join­ing the Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion through the Do­ral char­ter, rais­ing con­cerns about its po­ten­tial im­pact on Cari­com re­la­tions and the longevi­ty of the agree­ment un­der Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

Cer­tain in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia out­lets have re­port­ed that the Ba­hamas and Ja­maica are al­so among the 17 coun­tries par­tic­i­pat­ing in the US-led Amer­i­c­as Counter-Car­tel Coali­tion (AC­CC), al­though their lead­ers were not at last Sat­ur­day’s launch of the ini­tia­tive.

Se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions of reg­u­la­to­ry abuse with­in the Chem­istry, Food and Drug Di­vi­sion (CFDD) emerged dur­ing the sixth meet­ing of the Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC), where mem­bers raised con­cerns that “spe­cial per­mis­sions” may have been used to by­pass es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures to im­port drugs such as Ozem­pic in­to the lo­cal mar­ket.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean said sup­plies on the is­land are re­turn­ing to nor­mal.

The Gov­ern­ment will to­day present the Sen­ate with the Re­port of the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al on the fi­nan­cial state­ments of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Fund (HSF) for the year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025. This is ex­pect­ed to be done by the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance.