One man is dead and two oth­ers are crit­i­cal fol­low­ing a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Cunu­pia short­ly af­ter 6 a.m. to­day.

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is warn­ing that there is “no room for com­pla­cen­cy” or per­son­al agen­das with­in the par­ty, as she seeks to strength­en the or­gan­i­sa­tion fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of coun­cil chair­man Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the sweep­ing changes in her Cab­i­net re­align­ment are meant to “in­crease ef­fi­cien­cy, cut costs and bu­reau­cra­cy.”

The fol­low­ing out­lines key changes in the al­lo­ca­tion of re­spon­si­bil­i­ties among min­istries fol­low­ing the 2025 and 2026 re­as­sign­ments. The changes, set out in the rel­e­vant Gazettes, show which port­fo­lios and state agen­cies were gained, re­lin­quished or trans­ferred be­tween min­istries un­der the re­spec­tive min­is­ters.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ques­tion­ing whether the Prime Min­is­ter’s Cab­i­net re­align­ment was dri­ven by in­ter­nal pow­er strug­gles in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says the ex­pand­ed re­spon­si­bil­i­ties placed on some min­is­ters did not nec­es­sar­i­ly trans­late in­to a sig­nif­i­cant­ly heav­ier work­load, since much of the tech­ni­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive work of Gov­ern­ment was car­ried out by pub­lic of­fi­cers.

Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad says he is un­both­ered by the re­align­ment of Cab­i­net re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, which took ef­fect on Sep­tem­ber 30.

A High Court Judge has de­clined to stop an elec­tion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East Women’s League af­ter a long-stand­ing par­ty mem­ber brought le­gal ac­tion over be­ing al­leged­ly ex­clud­ed from the poll.

Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad said the Gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing the fund­ing need­ed to ex­pand the Gov­ern­ment As­sis­tance for Tu­ition Ex­pens­es (GATE) pro­gramme.

About 15 house­holds in the Ce­dros dis­trict have been af­fect­ed by flood­ing, with wa­ter en­ter­ing homes in Bonasse, Fuller­ton, Lime­field Vil­lage and St Mary’s Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment.

Near­ly three out of every four firearms re­cov­ered in Trinidad and To­ba­go and sub­mit­ted to US au­thor­i­ties for trac­ing in 2025 were linked to the US firearms mar­ket, a sharp in­crease from just over half in 2020.

Sec­re­tary of Tourism Zor­isha Hack­ett has de­scribed the new Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) week­ly di­rect flight from Toron­to to To­ba­go as a win for the is­land. CAL an­nounced the flight on Fri­day, adding that the ser­vice will be­gin on Oc­to­ber 25, ahead of the fifth an­nu­al To­ba­go Car­ni­val, sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 30-No­vem­ber 1.