To­bag­o­ni­ans have ex­pressed mixed re­ac­tions fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of the Unit­ed States-in­stalled radar from the is­land.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is rais­ing ma­jor con­cerns over what it de­scribes as a trou­bling lack of trans­paren­cy over the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of the US mil­i­tary radar that was in­stalled in To­ba­go last year.

Days be­fore no­to­ri­ous busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra was gunned down last Fri­day, the Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Bu­reau (FIB) of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) sought doc­u­ments from at least four con­trac­tors for al­leged­ly do­ing busi­ness with him.

A con­sti­tu­tion­al case brought by busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra and his com­pa­ny DG Homes, over a search con­duct­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers in 2024, is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue even af­ter his mur­der last Fri­day.

Gov­ern­ment paid le­gal fees con­cern­ing var­i­ous en­er­gy mat­ters to sev­er­al at­tor­neys and firms over May 1, 2025 to Jan­u­ary 31, 2026 in­clud­ing Black­stone Cham­bers, Alexan­der, Je­re­mie and Co, Free­dom Law Cham­bers, Shas­tri A. Roberts and Deb­o­rah Peake (SC).

Twen­ty-year-old can­cer pa­tient Di­nesh Gadraj has be­gun a new round of med­ical test­ing in In­dia as his fam­i­ly press­es on with ef­forts to raise hun­dreds of thou­sands of US dol­lars need­ed for the life-sav­ing can­cer treat­ment doc­tors say could give him a fight­ing chance.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les has al­leged that the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) se­cured vic­to­ry in the April 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion with fi­nan­cial back­ing from mem­bers of the crim­i­nal un­der­world in ex­change for deals.

Chair­man of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty board, Mar­sha Bai­ley, says there has been no move by mem­bers to step down, de­spite Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Van­dana Mo­hit dou­bling down on her calls for their res­ig­na­tion.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on cur­rent Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath to break his si­lence over hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars spent on an ex­ec­u­tive re­treat host­ed by Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT).

At­tor­ney CJ Williams, who rep­re­sents two men ac­cused of mur­der­ing state pros­e­cu­tor Dana See­ta­hal, SC, is warn­ing that state­ments made in Par­lia­ment by De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge last Fri­day could have im­pli­ca­tions for on­go­ing crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing his clients.

The Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) has been or­dered to dis­close doc­u­ments re­lat­ed to dis­ci­pli­nary pro­ceed­ings brought by a sec­ondary school teacher ac­cused of aban­don­ing his job. 

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed on 11-year-old Ar­i­an­na Ram­di­al has found that she died from com­pli­ca­tions caused by a se­vere in­fec­tion that led to acute left ven­tric­u­lar heart fail­ure.