Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son has praised the con­tri­bu­tion of the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment, say­ing the val­ues of faith, ser­vice and uni­ty are crit­i­cal as the coun­try con­fronts grow­ing so­cial chal­lenges.

Con­fined to a wheel­chair, the el­der­ly moth­er of 37-year-old Michael Williams could on­ly watch in hor­ror as her son ran for his life from a re­lent­less gun­man on Sat­ur­day.

De­spite be­ing spared ma­jor flood­ing over the past two years, the start of the rainy sea­son has once again left Wood­land res­i­dents on edge, with many brac­ing for the loss­es and in­con­ve­nience they en­dured in pre­vi­ous years.

For­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte is re­ject­ing sug­ges­tions that a so-called “pro­tect­ed list” at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) was cre­at­ed to favour of­fi­cials of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), in­sist­ing the prac­tice has ex­ist­ed for decades and was nev­er in­tend­ed to ex­empt any­one from pay­ing elec­tric­i­ty bills.

 Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is out of the coun­try un­til Wednes­day to at­tend a fu­ner­al, with Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John serv­ing as Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter in her ab­sence.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) and the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) have con­demned what they de­scribed as ex­ces­sive po­lice ac­tion dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad on June 19.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, SC, MP, will be out of the ju­ris­dic­tion un­til Wednes­day, June 24, 2026, to at­tend the fu­ner­al of a fam­i­ly mem­ber over­seas.

Nes­tled in Trinidad's North­ern Range, the moun­tain vil­lage of Bras­so Seco, Paria, is prepar­ing to wel­come hun­dreds of vis­i­tors for its an­nu­al Vil­lage Bazaar on Ju­ly 4, themed Christ­mas in Ju­ly.

U.S. and Iran­ian ne­go­tia­tors were in Switzer­land on Sun­day for talks on their in­ter­im agree­ment to end the Iran war. Pak­istani and Qatari me­di­a­tors al­so were there for the tech­ni­cal-lev­el dis­cus­sions on re­solv­ing the con­flict that the U.S. and Is­rael be­gan in late Feb­ru­ary.

A hail of gun­fire shat­tered the qui­et of Pleas­antville on Sat­ur­day evening, as a masked gun­man chased down and killed a 37-year-old labour­er be­fore flee­ing in a wait­ing get­away car.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has sought to jus­ti­fy its po­lar­is­ing de­ci­sion to charge so­cial ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er Camille Cares­quero af­ter they par­tic­i­pat­ed in Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad on Fri­day.

Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary, Michael An­nisette, has con­demned the ar­rest of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip dur­ing Fri­day’s Labour Day march in Fyz­abad, de­scrib­ing the po­lice ac­tion as “re­gret­table,” “un­for­tu­nate,” and an af­front to de­mo­c­ra­t­ic free­doms.