The Steel­work­ers Union of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SWUTT) is call­ing for ur­gent State in­ter­ven­tion af­ter 48 work­ers at Crys­tal Stream, a bot­tled wa­ter and bev­er­age com­pa­ny lo­cat­ed at the Fred­er­ick Set­tle­ment Eteck Park in Ca­roni, were sent home with­out sev­er­ance fol­low­ing the sud­den clo­sure of the fa­cil­i­ty.

Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says a sig­nif­i­cant boost in nat­ur­al gas pro­duc­tion is on the hori­zon fol­low­ing the ar­rival of heavy equip­ment at the Point Lisas port on Fri­day.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, has met with Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez.

Bus tick­ets and pen­sion grants in Trinidad and To­ba­go are set to go dig­i­tal, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to mod­ernise pub­lic ser­vices and elim­i­nate pa­per-based sys­tems.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has raised con­cerns over the “sus­pi­cious” ac­qui­si­tion of Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed, con­firm­ing that a for­mal probe will now be launched in­to its op­er­a­tions and pur­chase.

On De­cem­ber 5, 2025, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) is­sued a state­ment in which it com­ment­ed on its re­ceipt of the In­ter­im Re­port of the Re­fin­ery Restart Com­mit­tee, which was chaired by for­mer Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Mr. Kevin Ram­nar­ine.

To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion and quar­ry­ing sub-sec­tor record­ed a sharp con­trac­tion in 2025, with ce­ment sales plung­ing by 41.4 per cent year-on-year, sig­nalling a sig­nif­i­cant slow­down in build­ing ac­tiv­i­ty and do­mes­tic in­vest­ment, ac­cord­ing to the Cen­tral Bank’s An­nu­al Eco­nom­ic Sur­vey 2025 re­leased on Tues­day.

Con­struc­tion on a new in­ter­na­tion­al­ly brand­ed ho­tel in South Trinidad is ex­pect­ed to be­gin with­in the next 60 days, bring­ing an es­ti­mat­ed 400 jobs dur­ing the build­ing phase and a fur­ther 150 per­ma­nent po­si­tions up­on com­ple­tion.

The Caribbean In­for­ma­tion and Cred­it Rat­ing Ser­vices Ltd (Cari­CRIS) has reaf­firmed “high cred­it­wor­thi­ness” rat­ings for the T&T Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (TTUTC).

Guyana’s tem­po­rary fu­el short­age this month was a re­minder that oil pro­duc­tion and fu­el se­cu­ri­ty are not the same thing.

T&T’s con­fronta­tion with es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lent crime has sharp­ened the na­tion­al de­bate over whether a state of emer­gency should be deep­ened with the in­tro­duc­tion of a cur­few.

A lead­er­ship shake-up has tak­en place at Am­plia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed, with Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Shawn Clarke out and a new act­ing head now in place.