A par­tic­u­lar­ly dis­turb­ing trend has emerged in re­cent years where cannabis and oth­er sub­stances are in­creas­ing­ly be­ing pre­sent­ed in var­i­ous ed­i­ble forms, such as gum­mies, brown­ies, and cup­cakes, ap­pear­ing harm­less or at­trac­tive to youths, cre­at­ing new av­enues through which chil­dren and ado­les­cents may be ex­posed to dan­ger­ous sub­stances, says At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie.

Op­po­si­tion MPs are ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of at­tempt­ing to re­struc­ture the lo­cal gov­ern­ment map to give the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) an ad­van­tage at the next lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says it has no role in de­ter­min­ing or al­ter­ing the bound­aries of mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions, as it con­firmed it was not for­mal­ly con­sult­ed on the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­al to es­tab­lish three new bor­oughs.

To­ba­go is ex­pect­ing a record num­ber of ar­rivals for this year’s Oc­to­ber car­ni­val with the T&T Spir­it fast fer­ry back on the seabridge. The ves­sel re­turned to ser­vice yes­ter­day and is sched­uled to op­er­ate dai­ly from Oc­to­ber 28-30 and on No­vem­ber 2 and 3. The ves­sel adds an ad­di­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty of 8,000 pas­sen­gers and 1,360 ve­hi­cles.

Res­i­dents in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties have com­plained of dis­coloured wa­ter and sup­ply prob­lems in re­cent days.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our says his min­istry is work­ing on ini­tia­tives to ad­dress traf­fic con­ges­tion but could not pro­vide de­tails of the plans.

An elec­tri­cal prob­lem aboard the car­go ves­sel Gold­en Car­ri­er caused pan­ic among some pas­sen­gers on Mon­day as it trav­elled from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing their search for a Venezue­lan woman who was ab­duct­ed from her La Ro­maine home three days ago.

Min­is­ter of Health Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has lament­ed the lack of ad­e­quate med­ical equip­ment to ef­fec­tive­ly serve the pub­lic, not­ing that such chal­lenges were one of sev­er­al is­sues the Gov­ern­ment is work­ing to ad­dress, as he re­called in­stances where dif­fer­ent clin­ics would have to share a de­vice.

As the Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill 2026 is ex­pect­ed to be laid in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­day, Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tors shared their views on the pro­vi­sions con­tained in the pro­pos­al, with some ar­gu­ing that it would al­low com­mu­ni­ties to re­ceive a high­er qual­i­ty of ser­vice, while oth­ers ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of try­ing to re­draw bound­aries in their favour.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion will take place next Mon­day - Bud­get Day - in­stead of the ini­tial­ly an­nounced Oc­to­ber 15 date.

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to de­liv­er the 2027 Bud­get next Mon­day, ad­vo­cates are call­ing for tar­get­ed in­vest­ment to help mi­grant chil­dren, peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties, autis­tic peo­ple and chil­dren with learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties ac­cess ed­u­ca­tion, health­care, em­ploy­ment and ba­sic sup­port.