En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says the gov­ern­ment is con­sid­er­ing every pos­si­ble com­mer­cial arrange­ment to restart the Pointe-à-Pierre re­fin­ery, in­clud­ing part­ner­ships with for­eign gov­ern­ments, in­ter­na­tion­al in­vestors and com­pa­nies that pre­vi­ous­ly bid for the as­set.

A Dow Vil­lage man man­aged to es­cape his ab­duc­tors hours af­ter two men forced their way in­to his home on Sat­ur­day night.

A 38-year-old man was found shot dead in the car park of a bar in Kel­ly Vil­lage ear­ly Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent hap­pened around 10.05 p.m. while he was tend­ing to his dog, which he be­lieved had been poi­soned. He told in­ves­ti­ga­tors that two men ap­proached him, and one, de­scribed as slim, about five feet eight inch­es tall, brown-skinned and wear­ing a dark hood­ie and black trousers, point­ed a firearm at him and said, “this is a rob­bery, car­ry me in­side.”

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil and for­mer Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), An­cil Den­nis, has de­scribed the re­cent bound­ary ad­just­ments to two To­ba­go elec­toral dis­tricts as mi­nor, not­ing they are un­like­ly to af­fect the re­sults of the up­com­ing elec­tions.

For the pe­ri­od the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) ne­go­ti­at­ed, the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment’s to­tal av­er­age an­nu­al rev­enue be­tween 2014 and 2019 was $46.85 bil­lion.

Gov­ern­ment’s Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge will car­ry strong penal­ties for non-com­pli­ance, in­clud­ing for land­lords col­lect­ing rent from premis­es and fail­ing to reg­is­ter those premis­es. Such land­lords will be sub­ject to a $250,000 fine plus three years’ im­pris­on­ment.

The pas­sage of the Fi­nance Bill 2025 through Par­lia­ment late Fri­day has sparked de­bate among the na­tion’s lead­ing econ­o­mists, as they weigh the gov­ern­ment’s need to in­crease rev­enue against the po­ten­tial fi­nan­cial bur­den on the av­er­age cit­i­zen.

What was once a joy­ful cor­ner of child­hood—the bright­ly coloured play zone at Irv­ing Park in San Fer­nan­do—has be­come a place of fear.

Two for­mer pres­i­dents of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) are open­ly crit­i­cis­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s ar­rears ne­go­ti­a­tion process, ar­gu­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has not been ful­ly trans­par­ent with the pub­lic.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says ne­go­ti­a­tions are on­go­ing with Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er pro­duc­er Nu­trien Ltd., and there is op­ti­mism that urea pro­duc­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go could re­sume by the end of the year.

The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025—com­mon­ly re­ferred to as “stand your ground” leg­is­la­tion—was passed in the Sen­ate on Fri­day night with­out amend­ments.