Po­lit­i­cal par­ties have tak­en strong ex­cep­tion to the Prime Min­is­ter de­scrib­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go as a “law­less dump”.

Un­de­terred by sharp crit­i­cism from po­lit­i­cal ri­vals, the Prime Min­is­ter has dou­bled down on her de­scrip­tion of the coun­try as a “law­less dump”, in­sist­ing the re­mark was in­tend­ed to con­front harsh re­al­i­ties and ul­ti­mate­ly up­lift the na­tion.

There are, at this time, of­fi­cial­ly five pub­lic hol­i­days in 2026 that fall on ei­ther a Fri­day or a Mon­day, cre­at­ing a pe­ri­od most Trin­bag­o­ni­ans look for­ward to—long week­ends.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says the in­tro­duc­tion of an in­crease in fines for traf­fic of­fences is not in­tend­ed to pun­ish dri­vers for sim­ply “ex­ist­ing”, in­sist­ing it is part of the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to clamp down on er­rant dri­vers on a sus­tained ba­sis.

Mariners are rais­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal con­cerns af­ter a slick es­ti­mat­ed to stretch up to two miles long and half a mile wide was spot­ted float­ing in the Gulf of Paria, south of Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day.

There are mixed re­views from some econ­o­mists over Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar la­belling the coun­try a “law­less dump”.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has tak­en aim at Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing her of pre­sid­ing over what he de­scribed as a “hate­ful, spite­ful and vin­dic­tive reign”, fol­low­ing her re­marks that Trinidad and To­ba­go has be­come a “law­less dump”.

The pres­i­dent of the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has called on the Gov­ern­ment to re­peal the re­cent in­crease in Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) per­mit fees, while re­as­sur­ing that fares for pas­sen­gers are not ex­pect­ed to rise im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment is ex­pand­ing the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work to in­clude all el­i­gi­ble il­le­gal im­mi­grants cur­rent­ly re­sid­ing with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bor­ders, mov­ing be­yond the pre­vi­ous ex­clu­sive fo­cus on Venezue­lan na­tion­als.

A neigh­bour’s re­gret now hangs over a Point Fortin tragedy, where a 40-year-old man died in a house fire on Sun­day night af­ter hours of vis­i­ble dis­tress.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of a Bel­mont man who re­port­ed­ly died af­ter trip­ping and hit­ting his head on the stair­well to his home.

A woman was robbed at gun­point in­side her Phillip­ine home on Sun­day evening as armed crim­i­nals struck across south and cen­tral Trinidad in a string of week­end rob­beries.