As CEPEP work­ers in To­ba­go get ready to re­place their bushwack­ers with farm­ing tools, stake­hold­ers are an­tic­i­pat­ing a dif­fi­cult tran­si­tion, as many be­lieve an over­haul of the work cul­ture is re­quired.

For­mer min­is­ter in the min­istry of fi­nance Bri­an Man­ning says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is en­ti­tled to seek what­ev­er lev­el of fund­ing it be­lieves is nec­es­sary to meet the needs of To­bag­o­ni­ans.

For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Mar­i­ano Browne says To­ba­go’s $4.12 bil­lion bud­get re­quest for fis­cal 2027 may be am­bi­tious, but warned the fi­nal al­lo­ca­tion will de­pend on the coun­try’s fis­cal con­straints and the Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s abil­i­ty to bal­ance com­pet­ing pri­or­i­ties.

What be­gan as an or­di­nary day as a walk-in pa­tient re­quir­ing ser­vice at a pub­lic hos­pi­tal for Ju­nior Teles­ford on May 26, evolved in­to him un­ex­pect­ed­ly be­com­ing one of the most cru­cial el­e­ments of ser­vice that day.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has thrown his sup­port be­hind the de­ploy­ment of US Navy SEAL per­son­nel to Trinidad and To­ba­go, dis­miss­ing con­cerns that the move could un­der­mine the coun­try’s sov­er­eign­ty.

Christo­pher Sama­roo, the fa­ther of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo, was said to “be okay and in good spir­its” last evening, de­spite be­ing in po­lice cus­tody for over 24 hours.

Even as the coun­try’s na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus con­tin­ues to op­er­ate un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE), it has not pre­vent­ed a se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cial from be­com­ing a vic­tim of crime him­self.

The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has sub­mit­ted a coun­ter­pro­pos­al to the State, seek­ing to have part of the non-cash com­po­nent of the back­pay owed to its mem­bers pro­vid­ed through food cards, fu­el as­sis­tance and oth­er ben­e­fits.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee is ex­pect­ed to pro­vide an up­date fol­low­ing an emer­gency meet­ing con­vened to dis­cuss the can­cel­la­tion of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s $3.4 bil­lion De­sign-Build-Fi­nance (DBF) hous­ing pro­cure­ment pro­gramme.

A men­tal­ly ill man was shot and killed by po­lice on Mon­day evening, af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked an of­fi­cer with a knife.

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed a ship­ment con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and a firearm dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion at a Cus­toms Bond­ed Area in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

A US fed­er­al judge, who was born in Trinidad and To­ba­go, has come un­der fire by a US Con­gress­woman and an of­fi­cial from the De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, af­ter she blocked the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion from cre­at­ing a cen­tralised data­base con­tain­ing So­cial Se­cu­ri­ty num­bers, in­for­ma­tion about vot­ers’ cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus, and oth­er sen­si­tive da­ta.