Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to de­cline an in­vi­ta­tion to at­tend next week’s En­er­gy Con­fer­ence has drawn mixed re­ac­tions from for­mer min­is­ters and sen­a­tors.

For­mer in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors and the Op­po­si­tion are crit­i­cis­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over a se­ries of re­marks tar­get­ing in­de­pen­dent in­sti­tu­tions, rais­ing fresh ques­tions about the tone of po­lit­i­cal dis­course and the role of un­elect­ed over­sight bod­ies. A po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst, how­ev­er, has come to the prime min­is­ter’s de­fence, ar­gu­ing that she is re­act­ing to sus­tained crit­i­cism and grow­ing frus­tra­tion ear­ly in her term.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Mar­lene Attzs and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi have re­ject­ed crit­i­cisms from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who has ques­tioned the in­de­pen­dence of mem­bers of the Sen­ate’s in­de­pen­dent bench. They de­scribed her com­ments as un­for­tu­nate and con­cern­ing.

Civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go are sup­port­ing the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment as it con­tin­ues ini­tia­tives that would lead to the re­turn of oust­ed Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cil­ia Flo­res.

The Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, has passed in the Sen­ate with the sup­port of eight of the nine in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Amery Browne has rub­bished the Prime Min­is­ter’s “vi­sion­ary lead­er­ship”, cit­ing her re­cent at­tack on in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, break­ing her op­po­si­tion promise to re­duce traf­fic fines—and now, mak­ing el­der­ly and poor peo­ple prey to some un­scrupu­lous me­chan­ics.

Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke says mo­torists should soon see re­lief from the long, wind­ing queues that have be­come a fa­mil­iar sight out­side Li­cens­ing of­fices, with op­er­a­tions ex­pect­ed to re­turn to nor­mal in the com­ing weeks.

Se­nior of­fi­cers in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice say of­fi­cers will con­tin­ue to de­fend them­selves against any and all threats when con­front­ed by armed crim­i­nals.

An in­trud­er got more than he bar­gained for ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing when he was mauled by a dog af­ter a Pleas­antville fa­ther al­leged­ly caught him peep­ing through his teenage son’s bed­room win­dow.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan has stalled as the au­top­sy to de­ter­mine the ex­act cause of death is yet to be done.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says an ar­rest is ex­pect­ed soon as the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to threats made against teach­ers at Rio Claro Sec­ondary School con­tin­ues.

More than two years af­ter the mur­der of his son, 60-year-old Ger­ard Forde says he isn’t con­vinced that the Gov­ern­ment’s strat­e­gy to in­tro­duce Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) to tar­get crim­i­nals in des­ig­nat­ed ar­eas will yield any re­sults.