The Steel Work­ers Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) is warn­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to learn from the coun­try’s ex­pe­ri­ence with Arcelor­Mit­tal as the for­mer Point Lisas steel plant pre­pares to re­sume op­er­a­tions.

Cel­e­brat­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go artist and cul­tur­al icon William “Willi” Chen will be ho­n­oured posthu­mous­ly by the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) with an hon­orary doc­tor­ate in recog­ni­tion of his con­tri­bu­tions to the arts.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) says the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU) in 2026 has al­lo­cat­ed US$19.9 mil­lion to sup­port vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren and fam­i­lies across Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) through pro­grammes fo­cused on dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness, ed­u­ca­tion, child pro­tec­tion and as­sis­tance for the most vul­ner­a­ble chil­dren, in­clud­ing refugee and mi­grant pop­u­la­tions.

Con­go will re­ceive 70,000 dos­es of the Erve­bo vac­cine, which has been ef­fec­tive in past Ebo­la out­breaks, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion and part­ners said Thurs­day, an­nounc­ing a step seen as a ma­jor boost to ef­forts to con­tain what of­fi­cials have de­scribed as the fastest Ebo­la out­break in his­to­ry.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) says it has be­gun im­ple­ment­ing rec­om­men­da­tions from an in­ter­nal in­quiry in­to the dis­pute with­in its San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy, as the par­ty seeks to con­tain grow­ing ten­sions be­tween MP Bri­an Man­ning and con­stituen­cy chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is.

An 80-year-old man was able to call for the help of po­lice of­fi­cers at a gas sta­tion, af­ter be­ing beat­en and kid­napped by his land­lord on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Salary ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) are on track to meet Fri­day’s dead­line, with the mat­ter ex­pect­ed to reach the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties by the end of the week.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is de­fend­ing the PNM’s record on the re­struc­tur­ing of At­lantic LNG, ar­gu­ing that the agree­ment com­plet­ed in De­cem­ber 2023 is re­spon­si­ble for high­er rev­enues now be­ing earned by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and the State.

Se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies across Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vice (TTFS), were placed on high alert yes­ter­day, af­ter a se­ries of 11 bomb threats tar­get­ed sev­er­al courts, a shop­ping plaza and a gov­ern­ment min­istry.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has re­vealed that con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion from the coun­try’s elite in­tel­li­gence units led to his sud­den de­par­ture from Trinidad and To­ba­go last week.

At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing al­leged mur­der con­spir­a­tor Star Sab­ga have writ­ten to the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro re­quest­ing that three of her fam­i­ly mem­bers be al­lowed to vis­it her in keep­ing with what was done dur­ing her time in po­lice cus­tody, es­pe­cial­ly in light of health con­cerns now be­ing raised by her.

To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion head Kevon McKen­na is stress­ing that the re­stric­tion on songs pro­mot­ing gang cul­ture dur­ing To­ba­go Car­ni­val 2026 is not tar­get­ing any par­tic­u­lar genre.