The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is com­mend­ing the teacher at the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School who used his body to shield a fe­male stu­dent while she was be­ing at­tacked by oth­er girls in a class­room. 

The fa­ther of Trinidad-born British cit­i­zen Za­heer Esat who was ab­duct­ed in broad day­light af­ter leav­ing a mosque in Cen­tral Trinidad on Fri­day is ap­peal­ing to his son’s kid­nap­pers to re­lease him.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go inch­es clos­er to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the con­stituen­cy of Tu­na­puna, wedged be­tween ur­ban sprawl and rur­al tra­di­tions, emerges as a fo­cal point for the po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

Vedanand Har­gob­in has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in the 2025 Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Guild of Stu­dents elec­tion, ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary re­sults re­leased on Fri­day.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has re­ject­ed claims that his par­ty is aligned with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), dis­miss­ing a vi­ral voice note as “fool­ish­ness” and po­lit­i­cal mis­chief aimed at mis­lead­ing vot­ers ahead of the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has re­fut­ed claims of “po­lit­i­cal sab­o­tage” made by All Peo­ple’s Par­ty (APP) leader Kezel Jack­son.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi has an­nounced the be­gin­ning of the con­struc­tion of high-rise apart­ment build­ings for $300 mil­lion as part of the on­go­ing San Fer­nan­do Wa­ter­front Re­de­vel­op­ment project.

Frus­trat­ed Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) sup­port staff staged a plac­ard protest out­side the South Cam­pus in San Fer­nan­do de­mand­ing a pay in­crease around mid­day on Fri­day.

A Port-of-Spain busi­ness­woman has been charged with two counts of fraud fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Fraud Squad.

A pub­lic ser­vant has been award­ed over $790,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for be­ing by­passed for pro­mo­tion in favour of a col­league, who won a na­tion­al schol­ar­ship.

For­mer Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) pres­i­dent and Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT) re­cip­i­ent Mark Lo­quan has passed away.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is com­mend­ing the teacher who pro­tect­ed a fe­male stu­dent at the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School who was be­ing beat­en by a group of girls in a class­room.