Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ques­tion­ing whether the tim­ing of Slinger “Mighty Spar­row” Fran­cis­co’s state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al on Oc­to­ber 16 is an at­tempt by the Gov­ern­ment to di­vert pub­lic at­ten­tion from her re­sponse to the na­tion­al Bud­get, which is sched­uled for the same day.

About 100 em­ploy­ees have been re­trenched by Pro­man Trinidad fol­low­ing a nine per cent re­duc­tion in its lo­cal work­force, deep­en­ing con­cerns about em­ploy­ment, in­vest­ment and the fu­ture of the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

Work­ers at Nu­trien who are chal­leng­ing the en­hanced sev­er­ance pack­age of­fered fol­low­ing the com­pa­ny’s de­ci­sion to close its Trinidad ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tions have be­gun or­gan­is­ing them­selves and seek­ing le­gal ad­vice.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­fend­ed the near­ly $800 mil­lion paid to po­lice of­fi­cers in over­time over the past two years and eight months, in­sist­ing that mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) earned every dol­lar for their ef­forts in com­bat­ing crime.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is de­fend­ing near­ly $800 mil­lion in over­time pay­ments made by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) be­tween 2024 and 2026, ar­gu­ing that the ex­pen­di­ture was both nec­es­sary and jus­ti­fied in light of sig­nif­i­cant re­duc­tions in crime and is like­ly to con­tin­ue as the ser­vice con­tin­ues its fight against the crim­i­nal el­e­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has launched a scathing at­tack on the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) over its promise to re­peal key pieces of leg­is­la­tion if it re­turns to of­fice, ac­cus­ing the Op­po­si­tion of putting young peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties at risk by op­pos­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing mea­sures.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has vowed to re­peal four pieces of leg­is­la­tion in­tro­duced by the Gov­ern­ment if it re­turns to of­fice fol­low­ing the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Siparia al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts has launched a blis­ter­ing cri­tique of May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo, ac­cus­ing him of ar­ro­gance, poor lead­er­ship and an in­abil­i­ty to man­age the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, as he broke his si­lence on the con­tro­ver­sial Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026.

Fire­fight­ers are urg­ing house­hold­ers to re­think every­day habits that could put their homes at risk, not­ing that res­i­den­tial fires in Trinidad and To­ba­go in­creased by 15 per cent be­tween Jan­u­ary and Au­gust this year.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has failed in its ap­peal chal­leng­ing a judge’s de­ci­sion to scrap the pro­mo­tion process for po­lice in­spec­tors seek­ing el­e­va­tion to the rank of as­sis­tant su­per­in­ten­dent of po­lice (ASP). 

Af­ter al­most a month with­out a pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply, 73-year-old Boodram Sama­roo has been strug­gling to care for his bedrid­den wife and man­age dai­ly chores.

Op­po­si­tion Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les has called on Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to com­pen­sate cit­i­zens whose wash­ing ap­pli­ances and clothes are be­ing dam­aged by “eight days of con­stant dirty wa­ter!”