Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s replies to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) ques­tions in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day went down mi­nus is­sue. But as sit­tings go, the fuss­ing and fight­ing by Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion spi­ralled right af­ter.

T&T’s ge­o­graph­ic po­si­tion­ing has long been tout­ed as its pri­ma­ry eco­nom­ic as­set, serv­ing as a vi­tal “bridge” be­tween the South Amer­i­can con­ti­nent and the glob­al mar­ket­place.

The Gov­ern­ment will ex­empt pen­sion pay­ments from ap­proved pen­sion fund plans and ap­proved de­ferred an­nu­ity plans from in­come tax, un­der a ma­jor re­form to be in­tro­duced in the Fi­nance Bill, 2026.

Of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) seized firearms and de­stroyed more than 100 cannabis trees dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Thurs­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is in­creas­ing its re­sponse to re­ports of lar­ce­ny and ma­li­cious dam­age at Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty fa­cil­i­ties, with the mat­ter re­ceiv­ing pri­or­i­ty at­ten­tion.

The death of Steve Ghany Ju­nior has sparked a move­ment in­volv­ing a for­mer Jus­tice Min­is­ter, a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist and an at­tor­ney aimed at tak­ing back so­ci­ety, by em­pow­er­ing abused women, build­ing stronger men and push­ing for greater po­lice pro­tec­tion for vic­tims.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has in­di­cat­ed plans to es­ca­late its push for salary in­creas­es for nurs­es with­in the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the Low­er House of Par­lia­ment to­day that T&T is close­ly mon­i­tor­ing es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions in the Mid­dle East and their po­ten­tial im­pact on glob­al sup­ply chains and the do­mes­tic econ­o­my.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Gov­ern­ment is in con­sul­ta­tion with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly on mea­sures to reg­u­late the use of jet skis and oth­er plea­sure craft fol­low­ing the death of a young girl at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park in To­ba­go.

The North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty has an­nounced what it de­scribes as a mile­stone in neona­tal care, fol­low­ing the dis­charge of the small­est triplets ever de­liv­ered and treat­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

De­spite what he de­scribed as drops in sev­er­al cat­e­gories of crime, in­clud­ing mur­ders, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the suc­cess­es of the TTPS of­ten go un­no­ticed in the face of cyn­i­cal so­cial me­dia users.

Iran said Fri­day it ful­ly re­opened the Strait of Hor­muz to com­mer­cial ves­sels, but Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said the Amer­i­can block­ade on Iran­ian ships and ports “will re­main in full force” un­til Tehran reach­es a deal with the U.S., in­clud­ing on its nu­clear pro­gram.