For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­pressed deep dis­ap­point­ment over the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to al­low the Unit­ed States to use Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­ports for lo­gis­ti­cal sup­port op­er­a­tions, de­scrib­ing the move as an at­tempt to make the coun­try a “vas­sal state.”

Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of In­te­ri­or, Jus­tice and Peace, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, has made it clear that the par­ty ful­ly sup­ports the de­ci­sion of the Bo­li­var­i­an gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly ter­mi­nate any con­tract or ne­go­ti­a­tion that in­volves the sup­ply of gas to T&T.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says he be­lieves the in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to the dead­ly fire that took the life of MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren last De­cem­ber was shield­ing those re­spon­si­ble, but le­gal ad­vice led to the de­ci­sion not to re­lease it pub­licly.

Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day re­mained mum on whether she will move to dis­ci­pline Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj, fol­low­ing his de­ci­sion to at­tend last Sat­ur­day’s Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) fundrais­er Christ­mas din­ner.

Re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers con­tin­ue to ex­press dis­ap­point­ment and frus­tra­tion, as the pos­si­bil­i­ty for health­care em­ploy­ees to be in­clud­ed among those re­ceiv­ing back­pay, or a por­tion of it, be­fore Christ­mas de­creas­es.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy Ernesto Ke­sar has con­firmed that charges have been laid un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act in re­la­tion to the col­lapse of Rig 110.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne wants cit­i­zens and tourists to know the city is open and safe this Christ­mas sea­son, with a 24/7 po­lice pres­ence on In­de­pen­dence Square and its en­vi­rons.

A for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tor has scored a pre­lim­i­nary le­gal vic­to­ry in its law­suit chal­leng­ing the sud­den ter­mi­na­tion of its con­tract in 2020. 

A res­i­dent of Chase Vil­lage, Cara­pichaima, has suc­ceed­ed in his law­suit against the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) for al­low­ing a con­crete batch­ing plant to op­er­ate in his com­mu­ni­ty with­out a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC). 

The life and lega­cy of Fer­di­nand “Fer­die” Fer­reira—po­lit­i­cal or­gan­is­er, trade union­ist and life­long ad­vo­cate for the work­ing class—was cel­e­brat­ed yes­ter­day as fam­i­ly, friends and politi­cians gath­ered to bid farewell to a man wide­ly de­scribed as a con­science of pol­i­tics and a liv­ing li­brary of the na­tion’s his­to­ry.

Po­lice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, ASP Ish­mael Pitt, says po­lice of­fi­cers have been work­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly with lit­tle re­lief since the 2024 State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared by the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment.

The Sal­va­tion Army host­ed its Christ­mas Food Ham­per Dis­tri­b­u­tion yes­ter­day at its head­quar­ters on Hen­ry Street, Port of Spain, con­tin­u­ing its an­nu­al ef­fort to sup­port fam­i­lies dur­ing the hol­i­day pe­ri­od.