A 70-year-old re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in­side his Princes Town home on Sun­day, with his hands and feet bound to­geth­er.

Hazel Man­ning will be seek­ing the post of chair­man when the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy stages its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions this evening.

The new East Ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go will be­gin flight op­er­a­tions on Wednes­day, Oc­to­ber 14, a day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of­fi­cial­ly opens the fa­cil­i­ty.

While some cit­i­zens took the pre­cau­tion of top­ping up their gas tanks yes­ter­day, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials say no fu­el price hike is ex­pect­ed in to­day’s 2027 Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that no mat­ter what is said in to­day’s Bud­get, some cit­i­zens who have a poor work eth­ic, dis­hon­est be­hav­iour, bad habits and neg­a­tive at­ti­tudes will con­tin­ue to strug­gle.

The Op­po­si­tion is ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment of prepar­ing to de­liv­er an­oth­er Bud­get filled with lies and un­ful­filled promis­es, with its se­nior mem­bers warn­ing that to­day’s pre­sen­ta­tion will be an ex­er­cise in de­cep­tion rather than an hon­est ac­count of the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic cir­cum­stances.

Four months in­to mar­ried life, banker Sha­keem Williams, 26, al­ready runs his house­hold like a bal­ance sheet. Ra­tions for two cost him at least $3,000 a month, a bill he finds steep. And he knows what comes next: each child, he spec­u­lates, will add at least $2,000 on top.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to un­veil its 2027 Bud­get to­day, un­em­ployed youths, en­tre­pre­neurs and trade union­ists are call­ing for more im­me­di­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties to earn a liv­ing, gain work ex­pe­ri­ence and build skills, even as the coun­try pur­sues eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion through aqua­cul­ture, agro-pro­cess­ing and da­ta cen­tres.

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs is re­ject­ing a re­port that the Unit­ed States visa of a sit­ting min­is­ter has been re­voked, in­sist­ing that no serv­ing mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment has had their US visa with­drawn.

A 13-year-old girl miss­ing for 26 days has be­come the sub­ject of pub­lic scruti­ny since her dis­cov­ery in a for­est with a 49-year-old man, but a coun­selling ther­a­pist is warn­ing that the child is now at risk of fur­ther harm from the very ex­po­sure sur­round­ing her res­cue.

Res­i­dents in ar­eas that had pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed brown wa­ter flow­ing from their taps have con­firmed that the wa­ter is now run­ning clear.

Pro­mot­er Randy Glas­gow is call­ing on the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for main­tain­ing stat­ues ho­n­our­ing ca­lyp­so leg­ends, say­ing there is no rea­son to seek more Gov­ern­ment mon­ey when the art form al­ready re­ceives mil­lions in an­nu­al fund­ing.