The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has ad­vised its mem­bers that there will be no change to the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny’s (NGC) de­ci­sion to in­crease nat­ur­al gas prices for Light In­dus­tri­al Con­sumers (LIC) for the 2026 pe­ri­od.

Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-led cor­po­ra­tions are ex­ag­ger­at­ing the re­port­ed de­crease in al­lo­ca­tion they re­ceived from the Gov­ern­ment.

Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School’s Eliz­a­beth Singh and Bish­op Anstey High School East/Trin­i­ty Col­lege East’s (BATCE) Aliya Ser­rette are the 2025 Pres­i­dent’s Medal win­ners.

From po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary—some aimed at the Gov­ern­ment, oth­ers knock­ing the Op­po­si­tion—to chut­ney, com­e­dy and cul­ture, the D’ Kaiso Dy­nasty ca­lyp­so tent opened on Thurs­day night at the Radis­son Ho­tel, Port-of-Spain, to a large and ap­pre­cia­tive au­di­ence.

This was the pre­vail­ing mind­set of hun­dreds of so­ca lovers who braved rainy con­di­tions to turn out for Patrice Roberts’ free Car­ni­val con­cert at Fla­va Vil­lage, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

A move to wind up the News­day news­pa­per af­ter 32 years of op­er­a­tion has been ap­proved by a High Court Judge.

Eliz­a­beth Singh of Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School and Aaliyah Ser­rett of Bish­op Anstey High School East and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East have been award­ed the Pres­i­dent’s Medal for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance in the 2025 CAPE ex­am­i­na­tions.

The Gov­ern­ment has pro­vid­ed dis­as­ter re­lief as­sis­tance to a res­i­dent af­fect­ed by flood­ing, through the Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices.

The Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has ex­pressed sup­port for the Prime Min­is­ter and the Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing the de­ci­sion to re­assess the cham­ber’s role in the en­er­gy sec­tor and to can­cel the STOW cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem.

Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vices at the Ch­agua­nas Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty will be tem­porar­i­ly re­lo­cat­ed on Sun­day to Mon­trose due to sched­uled elec­tri­cal works.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies has risen in the Times High­er Ed­u­ca­tion World Uni­ver­si­ty Rank­ings 2026, plac­ing it among the top 3.6 per cent of high­er ed­u­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions world­wide.

An es­tate con­sta­ble ac­ci­den­tal­ly shot him­self in the foot dur­ing a rou­tine pa­trol in Mara­bel­la on Thurs­day night.