Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that those who “want war will get to­tal po­lit­i­cal war,” as she promised sup­port­ers that brighter days are ahead for Trinidad and To­ba­go with thou­sands more jobs, in­creased po­lice posts and new homes in the pipeline.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is ques­tion­ing whether Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young is at­tempt­ing to un­der­mine the coun­try and its en­er­gy sec­tor af­ter post­ing a pho­to with him­self and Venezuela’s Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

A snap pulse check among sup­port­ers is putting fresh wind be­hind Jear­lean John, with the UNC deputy po­lit­i­cal leader emerg­ing as the top choice to even­tu­al­ly lead the par­ty.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10,000 PNM mem­bers will vote to­day to choose a new To­ba­go Coun­cil leader in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tions.

The 2025 Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts of T&T has un­veiled a se­ries of pro­found fis­cal ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties, sig­nalling a cri­sis of ac­count­abil­i­ty that spans from state-run hous­ing projects to high-lev­el in­ter­na­tion­al cred­it agree­ments.

The Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent has re­ject­ed what it de­scribes as im­prop­er in­sin­u­a­tions cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia re­gard­ing an al­leged fi­nan­cial arrange­ment, in­sist­ing that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo acts strict­ly with­in the con­sti­tu­tion­al frame­work of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

When T&T re­turns to the polls, pre­sum­ably when con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in 2030, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be 78 years old, po­ten­tial­ly mak­ing her the coun­try’s old­est-ever serv­ing prime min­is­ter.

Just out­side the mor­tu­ary doors of the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) in Mt Hope, a turf war is brew­ing among fu­ner­al home touts.

For Amelia Cross, the dis­cov­ery of 56 bod­ies be­ing placed in­to a sin­gle grave at the Cu­mu­to Ceme­tery has re­opened a painful ques­tion her fam­i­ly has car­ried for since Oc­to­ber 2025.

Hilton World­wide has agreed to a three-month ex­ten­sion for the con­tin­ued use of its brand in Port-of-Spain while dis­cus­sions on the ho­tel’s fu­ture with the Gov­ern­ment-owned en­ti­ty re­main on­go­ing.

A moth­er who woke with sud­den chest pains be­fore dawn now be­lieves she felt the mo­ment her son died.

Friends and fam­i­ly gath­ered yes­ter­day at the Ch­agua­nas home of Shan­ice Mor­ris to bid a tear­ful farewell to the 32-year-old moth­er whose life was cut short in a vi­o­lent Ed­in­burgh 500 shoot­ing.