Five months af­ter be­ing elect­ed PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil chair­man, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has quit the par­ty. The de­vel­op­ment comes as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment seeks to re­build fol­low­ing its re­sound­ing 15-0 de­feat in the Jan­u­ary To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed is de­scrib­ing the pro­ce­dur­al er­ror that led to the fail­ure of Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les’ pri­vate mo­tion in Par­lia­ment as an overzeal­ous mis­take, but says it al­so high­lights deep­er or­gan­i­sa­tion­al prob­lems with­in the Op­po­si­tion, which he be­lieves is not op­er­at­ing as a co­he­sive unit.

Out­stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions, back­pay, em­ploy­ment, and work­er sup­port are among the key de­mands be­ing placed on the Gov­ern­ment ahead of the 2027 Na­tion­al Bud­get, as unions push for set­tle­ments de­spite econ­o­mists warn­ing that an­oth­er deficit bud­get could put pres­sure on the econ­o­my.

An 18-year-old was among two peo­ple de­tained in con­nec­tion with an at­tempt­ed rob­bery at a bar in Mara­bel­la, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing. Of­fi­cers al­so seized a firearm and cut­lass.

Bail was de­nied to a 42-year-old man charged with sac­ri­lege fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at a church in La Lune, Moru­ga.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­port­ed de­clines in homi­cides, se­ri­ous re­port­ed crime and road traf­fic ac­ci­dents for the first nine months of 2026 com­pared with the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­ods in 2025 and 2024.

An 81-year-old vet­er­an Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­ber has been cleared to par­tic­i­pate in the San Fer­nan­do East Women’s League elec­tions this evening.

Five months af­ter be­ing elect­ed PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil chair­man, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has re­signed.

A 42-year-old man has been charged with sac­ri­lege fol­low­ing an al­leged break-in at a church in La Lune, Moru­ga.

Po­lice have seized a firearm and two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Mal­oney Gar­dens.

Two men have been de­tained and a firearm and cut­lass seized fol­low­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery at a bar in Mara­bel­la ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­aligned min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lios, mov­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for a wide range of Gov­ern­ment pro­grammes, state en­ter­pris­es and oth­er func­tions among mem­bers of Cab­i­net.