For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr. Ralph Gon­salves, whose Uni­ty Labour Par­ty (ULP) was de­feat­ed in Thurs­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion af­ter 25 years in of­fice, say the par­ty is very much alive and he will re­turn to Par­lia­ment as Leader of the Op­po­si­tion.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is con­tin­u­ing its probe in­to sev­er­al ques­tion­able mat­ters, ac­cord­ing to Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee. He spoke with Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day while at­tend­ing the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce’s an­nu­al Christ­mas func­tion.

The Min­istry of De­fence has is­sued a state­ment con­firm­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space re­mains open to all com­mer­cial air­craft. It comes af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced the clo­sure of Venezue­lan air­space on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The for­mer pres­i­dent of the Al­liance for a Green Rev­o­lu­tion in Africa (AGRA), Dr. Agnes Kali­ba­ta, says cli­mate change will con­tin­ue to strain glob­al food sys­tems, and that small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) must be pre­pared for the re­sult­ing in­sta­bil­i­ty.

Busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions have ex­pressed strong sup­port for the Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, with sev­er­al cham­bers say­ing the leg­is­la­tion could sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove se­cu­ri­ty for cit­i­zens and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is­sued a warn­ing to air­lines, pi­lots, and what he de­scribed as “drug deal­ers and hu­man traf­fick­ers” to con­sid­er all air­space over and around Venezuela “closed.”

Cen­tral Trinidad will no longer be side­lined or ig­nored, de­clared Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ca­roni Cen­tral MP David Lee, as he de­liv­ered a force­ful ad­dress at the Cou­va Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce’s an­nu­al Christ­mas and Awards Func­tion. The event was held on Fri­day at the Cham­ber’s ad­min­is­tra­tive com­plex on Cam­den Road, Cou­va.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she ini­tial­ly with­held full de­tails about the pres­ence of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary per­son­nel in To­ba­go be­cause it was a sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mat­ter. How­ev­er, she added that fol­low­ing per­sis­tent ques­tion­ing from the me­dia, that se­cu­ri­ty ad­van­tage has now been com­pro­mised.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro spoke by phone last week and dis­cussed a pos­si­ble meet­ing, but none has been sched­uled, ac­cord­ing to the New York Times.

The Chief Sec­re­tary has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed full de­tails on the radar sys­tem be­ing in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Venezuela’s se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus has in­creased its pres­ence in ar­eas in the east­ern end of the coun­try that face Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er Caribbean na­tions, ac­cord­ing to me­dia re­ports there.

As for­eign mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in­ten­si­fies across the Caribbean—deep­en­ing di­vi­sions with­in Cari­com over how the re­gion should re­spond—the Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day amend­ed an Op­po­si­tion mo­tion that sought to con­demn the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­cent pub­lic state­ments on the mat­ter.