The Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­place tra­di­tion­al fire­works with a full drone show and silent fire­works dis­play for this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions is be­ing wel­comed by an­i­mal wel­fare ad­vo­cates and Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion (CANPTT), who say the move could sig­nal a shift in how T&T cel­e­brates ma­jor na­tion­al and re­li­gious oc­ca­sions.

The con­tracts of more than 1,000 ten-on, ten-off work­ers em­ployed by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Di­vi­sion of In­fra­struc­ture have been ter­mi­nat­ed.

Sky­watch­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go may want to stay up a lit­tle lat­er tonight, as one of the year’s more im­pres­sive ce­les­tial shows un­folds di­rect­ly over­head.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says he has seen “shock­ing” doc­u­ments con­nect­ed to cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions raised by San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning against mem­bers of his own Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), but is re­fus­ing to dis­close how the in­for­ma­tion came in­to his pos­ses­sion.

Po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor and poll­ster Dr Mwale Hen­ry says the es­ca­lat­ing in­ter­nal con­flict with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is ex­pos­ing a wider prob­lem of in­dis­ci­pline and lead­er­ship with­in the Op­po­si­tion par­ty.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ap­pears to be mak­ing progress in ef­forts to re­solve in­ter­nal ten­sions with­in its San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy fol­low­ing a 90-minute meet­ing on Tues­day in­volv­ing the par­ty’s lead­er­ship, con­stituen­cy rep­re­sen­ta­tives and San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is again re­fus­ing to dis­close the pro­ject­ed cost or con­trac­tors for the Gov­ern­ment’s planned 30 po­lice posts, say­ing the in­for­ma­tion will be made pub­lic at a lat­er stage to avoid “dra­ma.”

An es­ti­mat­ed $167.37 mil­lion was lost to fraud­sters up to Ju­ly this year, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad.

Two men have been placed in pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, amid in­tel­li­gence link­ing them to or­gan­ised crim­i­nal groups and planned at­tacks.

More than a week af­ter bomb threats to sev­er­al build­ings, in­clud­ing courts and a shop­ping plaza, trig­gered evac­u­a­tions and a wide­spread mo­bil­i­sa­tion of se­cu­ri­ty re­sources, po­lice say the mat­ter re­mains un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh says the au­thor­i­ty is work­ing to ad­dress re­port­ed short­ages of sev­er­al med­ica­tions, in­clud­ing breast can­cer drugs ex­emes­tane, anas­tro­zole and letro­zole, as well as some psy­chi­atric drugs.

The Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) has lost its case seek­ing dis­clo­sure of in­for­ma­tion on a ter­mi­nat­ed work­er from the Min­istry of Labour.