Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­scrib­ing the Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026, as a gift to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go as she ap­proach­es 40 years in pub­lic life, hav­ing be­gun her po­lit­i­cal ca­reer as an al­der­man.

Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions are months away, and the Gov­ern­ment’s bill to change lo­cal gov­ern­ment arrange­ments will not post­pone them, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen said yes­ter­day.

Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of ap­point­ing a com­mit­tee packed with Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal al­lies to rec­om­mend changes to mu­nic­i­pal bound­aries, de­scrib­ing its work as the prod­uct of a “poi­so­nous yel­low fruit.”

Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo says the Gov­ern­ment’s move to in­tro­duce a floor-cross­ing pro­vi­sion for lo­cal gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives was prompt­ed by the de­fec­tion of two mem­bers of the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, whom he called “trai­tors.”

The woman po­lice con­sta­ble (WPC) who re­port­ed be­ing robbed of more than $127,000 in cash on Oc­to­ber 1 was charged on Tues­day with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

To­ba­go farm­ers say ex­treme heat is af­fect­ing their an­i­mals’ health. With drought-like con­di­tions ex­pect­ed soon, farm­ers at­tend­ed a cli­mate re­silience work­shop on Tues­day to learn how to iden­ti­fy heat stress and re­duce its ef­fects.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has crit­i­cised the Op­po­si­tion and In­de­pen­dent bench­es af­ter they failed to sup­port leg­is­la­tion that rais­es the le­gal ages for al­co­hol, to­bac­co, cannabis and gam­bling. She again re­ferred to the Pres­i­dent’s nine ap­point­ed sen­a­tors as “scum­bags.”

The Gov­ern­ment’s bill rais­ing the le­gal age for al­co­hol, to­bac­co, cannabis use and gam­bling was passed in the Sen­ate short­ly be­fore 1 am yes­ter­day, with Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors ques­tion­ing whether hookah use would be cov­ered un­der the leg­is­la­tion.

Gov­ern­ment should treat spend­ing on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty not as an ex­pense, but as an in­vest­ment in pro­tect­ing the coun­try’s peo­ple, econ­o­my, bor­ders and sov­er­eign­ty, says re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah.

The move by lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der to op­pose a move by the Ju­di­cia­ry to livestream his ap­peal in a defama­tion law­suit in­volv­ing Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day was not based on a de­sire to have the case de­ter­mined pri­vate­ly. 

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to raise the le­gal age lim­its for gam­bling, mar­i­jua­na, al­co­hol and to­bac­co, while launch­ing a scathing at­tack on the Op­po­si­tion PNM and In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors who vot­ed against the leg­is­la­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, five men broke in­to Sandy’s Ba­co­let Gar­dens home. The ex-politi­cian, who suf­fered a stroke in 2013, was not harmed dur­ing the or­deal.