South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) chair­man Anil Go­sine says the au­thor­i­ty has be­gun re­cruit­ing 40 new nurs­es as part of plans to re­open the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal and to main­tain ex­tend­ed pa­tient ser­vices in out­ly­ing com­mu­ni­ties like Ce­dros and Moru­ga.

For­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says the Gov­ern­ment must ex­am­ine the dis­pos­al of an es­ti­mat­ed $80 mil­lion in ex­pired phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.

De­spite San Fer­nan­do be­ing the na­tion’s in­dus­tri­al cap­i­tal – sur­round­ed by petro­chem­i­cal plants, en­er­gy com­pa­nies and heavy in­dus­try – spe­cialised burn care re­mains un­avail­able in T&T, and se­vere cas­es con­tin­ue to be flown over­seas for life­sav­ing treat­ment.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad has warned at­tor­neys and lit­i­gants to be pre­pared to re­turn to phys­i­cal court­rooms for tri­als of civ­il law­suits.

A High Court Judge has in­val­i­dat­ed a po­lice mer­it list for sergeants (Sgts) seek­ing pro­mo­tion to the rank of In­spec­tor that was pro­duced by the Pro­mo­tions Ad­vi­so­ry Board (PAB) in 2020.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­spond­ed to ques­tions from Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les about the in­stal­la­tion of a new radar sys­tem in To­ba­go, ac­cus­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of at­tempt­ing to com­pro­mise na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA), Dr Denise Tsoiafatt An­gus has con­firmed that the par­ty is in the process of chang­ing its po­ten­tial can­di­date for Belle Gar­den/Glam­or­gan, af­ter its pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced can­di­date, Tevin Duke, was sen­tenced to three months and 24 days in prison.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress has an­nounced the pass­ing of for­mer Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Dr Daphne Phillips at age 82. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, col­leagues, and as­so­ciates of Dr Phillips.

From De­cem­ber 1, 2025, the pub­lic has round-the-clock ac­cess to Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vices at the St Joseph En­hanced Health Cen­tre. The fa­cil­i­ty now op­er­ates 24 hours a day, sev­en days a week, in­clud­ing week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised a se­ries of ques­tions for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing the in­stal­la­tion of a radar sys­tem in To­ba­go. She made the com­ments while speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence to­day.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Mar­lene Attzs has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s Home In­va­sion Bill, call­ing it the “pri­vati­sa­tion of vi­o­lence” and “the out­sourc­ing of the state’s most sa­cred du­ty to thou­sands of fright­ened, un­trained, un­sup­port­ed in­di­vid­u­als”.

Sint Maarten-based air­line Winair has an­nounced in­ten­tions to be­gin fly­ing non-stop to Trinidad on Feb­ru­ary 1. In a me­dia re­lease, the air­line says it will op­er­ate flights be­tween Princess Ju­liana In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (SXM) and Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (POS) on Wednes­days and Sun­days. The air­line will use its ATR 42-500/600 fleet on the route, which re­mains sub­ject to ap­proval by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty.