Small busi­ness own­ers op­er­at­ing in com­mu­ni­ties along the East-West Cor­ri­dor say they are hope­ful that fea­tures of this year’s bud­get will fo­cus on stim­u­lat­ing growth while ad­dress­ing the needs of the gen­er­al pub­lic.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) has wel­comed Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to ad­dress out­stand­ing pay­ments and back­pay for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers, but says the coun­try needs a broad­er eco­nom­ic strat­e­gy that goes be­yond fis­cal mea­sures.

Re­tail spend­ing in South Trinidad re­mains close­ly tied to pub­lic sec­tor wage cy­cles, with busi­ness lead­ers say­ing Gov­ern­ment’s planned salary re­lief could quick­ly rip­ple through su­per­mar­kets, hard­ware stores and oth­er re­tail out­lets as house­holds gain ad­di­tion­al spend­ing pow­er.

Pres­i­dent of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce Bal­dath Ma­haraj has wel­comed key mea­sures out­lined in the Gov­ern­ment’s 2026 Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view, say­ing the set­tle­ment of out­stand­ing pub­lic sec­tor wage oblig­a­tions will pro­vide much-need­ed re­lief to thou­sands of fam­i­lies while stim­u­lat­ing eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the death of an of­fi­cer at­tached to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

A 47-year-old me­chan­ic from Ari­ma has been ac­quit­ted of mo­lest­ing his teenage step­daugh­ter on two oc­ca­sions.

Eight of 11 peo­ple ar­rest­ed by po­lice in the south­ern di­vi­sion were placed on placed on Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs).

Po­lice said the vic­tim was walk­ing along Pi­ar­co Old Road in the vicin­i­ty of Red Cas­tle Su­per­mar­ket, around 10 am, when a white Nis­san Ti­i­da pulled up.

Kylian Mbap­pé scored twice to move past Pelé and Li­onel Mes­si with 14 World Cup goals, Bradley Bar­co­la added an­oth­er and France re­bound­ed from a sur­pris­ing­ly poor first half to beat Sene­gal 3-1 Tues­day.

Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) are be­ing sought for some 11 per­sons ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions that were car­ried out in Gas­par­il­lo be­tween June 6th and 15th, 2026, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

U.N. Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res vis­it­ed Haiti on Tues­day, where surg­ing gang vi­o­lence has left more than 1 in 10 peo­ple home­less.

With just five days re­main­ing, civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions (CSOs) across Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing urged to seize a rare op­por­tu­ni­ty to earn recog­nised pro­fes­sion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion at no cost.