U.S. De­fense Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth lashed out at NA­TO al­lies on Thurs­day as he an­nounced a six-month Pen­ta­gon re­view of Amer­i­can forces in Eu­rope whose out­come will de­pend on how fast the Eu­ro­peans take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for their own se­cu­ri­ty.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go com­mem­o­rates Labour Day to­day, the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has is­sued a strong call for re­newed com­mit­ment to work­ers’ rights, fair wages, and so­cial jus­tice.

The Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ECA TT) has called for stronger, more struc­tured so­cial di­a­logue in its Labour Day 2026 mes­sage, urg­ing that na­tion­al con­sul­ta­tion mech­a­nisms be trans­lat­ed in­to mea­sur­able pol­i­cy out­comes rather than re­main at the lev­el of prin­ci­ple alone.

Min­is­ter of Labour, Small and Mi­cro En­ter­prise De­vel­op­ment, Leroy Bap­tiste, has reaf­firmed Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing work­ers’ rights and ad­vanc­ing de­cent work as Trinidad and To­ba­go marks Labour Day 2026.

Po­lit­i­cal dif­fer­ences were set aside as To­ba­go politi­cians pub­licly ex­pressed sup­port for Sec­re­tary of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Ian Pol­lard, who re­mains hos­pi­talised.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) has of­fi­cial­ly can­celled the pro­cure­ment pro­ceed­ings for its con­tro­ver­sial $3.4 bil­lion De­sign-Build-Fi­nance (DBF) hous­ing pro­gramme, bring­ing an abrupt end to a process that had been un­der scruti­ny from the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) since April.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thurs­day against a broad fed­er­al ban on gun own­er­ship by mar­i­jua­na users, the lat­est in a line of firearm cas­es from a court that has ex­pand­ed gun rights.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s push to po­si­tion it­self as a re­gion­al leader in dig­i­tal in­no­va­tion re­ceived an in­ter­na­tion­al boost this week af­ter Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Sen­a­tor Do­minic Smith was in­vit­ed to join a glob­al board fo­cused on ad­vanc­ing dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion.

A Pe­nal busi­ness­man has plead­ed guilty to two charges of ob­tain­ing goods through the use of dis­hon­oured cheques fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by po­lice in­to al­le­ga­tions of fi­nan­cial fraud.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of cre­at­ing dis­trac­tions to mask weak lead­er­ship.

The Ebo­la out­break in Con­go and Ugan­da has claimed more than 200 lives in its first month and is the worst known out­break at this stage, with up to 35,000 sus­pect­ed po­ten­tial con­tacts, Africa’s Cen­tres for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion said on Thurs­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an agree­ment with Iran on Wednes­day that calls for Tehran to di­lute its stock­pile of high­ly en­riched ura­ni­um and waives U.S.-backed sanc­tions on the coun­try, im­me­di­ate­ly al­low­ing Iran to sell its oil freely in a ma­jor con­ces­sion from Wash­ing­ton, ac­cord­ing to de­tails re­leased by both coun­tries.