The Gov­ern­ment is keep­ing the date and de­tails of the 2026/2027 Bud­get firm­ly un­der wraps, with both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo de­clin­ing to shed any light on when the fis­cal pack­age will be pre­sent­ed or what it will con­tain.

While some cit­i­zens with chron­ic ail­ments are be­ing told their pre­scribed drugs are un­avail­able at pub­lic hos­pi­tal phar­ma­cies, Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says his min­istry is work­ing to ad­dress pro­cure­ment is­sues af­fect­ing the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP).

A spe­cial­ist doc­tor has scored a le­gal vic­to­ry over be­ing found li­able for a man be­ing born with cere­bral pal­sy af­ter he (the doc­tor) de­liv­ered him over two decades ago. 

As the coun­try pre­pares for Mon­day’s 64th In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions, the heads of two key law en­force­ment agen­cies say they are ready to re­spond to any threat, with a re­cent se­cu­ri­ty as­sess­ment find­ing a “very low” threat lev­el for the na­tion­al event.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Fri­day said the U.S. has en­tered an agree­ment with Venezuela to take con­trol of 65 bil­lion bar­rels of the South Amer­i­can coun­try’s oil re­serves.

Dri­vers head­ing in­to Port-of-Spain on Mon­day for the In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions and CPL crick­et should plan ahead, with tem­po­rary park­ing and traf­fic re­stric­tions set to af­fect sev­er­al ma­jor roads.

Sev­er­al chil­dren, in­clud­ing a one-year-old child born in the Unit­ed States, were among the lat­est batch of Haitians de­port­ed from the Unit­ed States on Thurs­day to the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

Haiti’s Na­tion­al Po­lice faced mount­ing crit­i­cism Thurs­day over why au­thor­i­ties failed to pre­vent a re­cent gang at­tack in which 47 peo­ple were killed and more than 50 kid­napped.

Res­cuers pulled out sur­vivors caked in dark brown mud and he­li­copters lift­ed strand­ed peo­ple to safe­ty Fri­day, as Nepal and Chi­na raced to re­spond to cat­a­stroph­ic flash floods that killed near­ly 600 peo­ple and left al­most 2,500 miss­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice (TTPrS) has in­ter­cept­ed a pack­age con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items thrown over the wall of the Port of Spain Prison.

Con­struc­tion of three new army-po­lice posts in To­ba­go is sched­uled to be­gin this week­end, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has an­nounced.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has sig­nalled that there are no plans to ex­pel San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning, de­spite his pub­lic al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion and crim­i­nal­i­ty with­in the par­ty and crit­i­cism that she has been un­able or un­will­ing to deal with the mat­ter.