Jowelle De Souza, the first transgender woman from Trinidad and Tobago to sit in the Senate appointed as a temporary senator, has received many messages on social media calling her "historic" and "monumental"

The La Casita Hispanic Cultural Centre together with several embassies held a walk through the streets of Arima and a football match under the programme 'transforming realities'; the initiative was focused on ending gender based violence

Limited freshwater resources, use of desalination, rainwater harvesting, aging infrastructure and vulnerability to natural disaster have led Trinidad to team up with British Virgin Islands, sharing the same problems, to address drinking water issues

Heritage Petroleum Company has commissioned a steam generator aimed to restart the steam flood extraction; the move aims at boosting oil recovery rates in the coming months and extending the life of the Forest Reserve oil field

4.000 school and book grants for current school year will be handed out in early 2025, following the 20.200 grants disbursed in fiscal 2024; grants requests were 26.967, of which less than 10% didn't match requirements