In her New Year’s mes­sage is­sued yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Trinidad and To­ba­go was en­ter­ing 2026 with re­newed con­fi­dence, clear di­rec­tion and a strong sense of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, fol­low­ing what she de­scribed as a de­ci­sive turn­ing point in 2025.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les ex­tend­ed New Year greet­ings to cit­i­zens at home and abroad, de­scrib­ing the start of the year as a shared mo­ment of re­flec­tion and hope.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty has an­nounced a re­vised fee struc­ture for ser­vices pro­vid­ed by the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

With the in­crease in traf­fic penal­ties set to com­mence to­day, Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says the pub­lic has noth­ing to fear if they obey the laws.

Maxi taxi as­so­ci­a­tions are in­sist­ing they nev­er for­mal­ly an­nounced any in­crease in fares and are ques­tion­ing why they have come un­der sharp crit­i­cism from the Prime Min­is­ter.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has crit­i­cised what she de­scribed as a move by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to reg­u­larise squat­ters who have il­le­gal­ly oc­cu­pied state-fund­ed hous­ing units, call­ing it a con­tra­dic­tion of the Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on law­less­ness.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis has ac­cused the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) of wast­ing mil­lions of dol­lars on bill­boards and signs, weeks be­fore the elec­tion, de­scrib­ing it as “shame­less” and “in­sult­ing.”

Trinidad and To­ba­go was rocked by sev­er­al shoot­ings over a 24-hour pe­ri­od, leav­ing four men dead in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents across the coun­try.

He has been iden­ti­fied as Jerome Woods, a san­i­ta­tion work­er at­tached to the Di­vi­sion of Health, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

Auck­land was the first ma­jor city to ring in 2026 with a fire­works dis­play launched from New Zealand’s tallest struc­ture, Sky Tow­er, fol­lowed by a de­fi­ant cel­e­bra­tion in Aus­tralia in the af­ter­math of its worst mass shoot­ing.

A 40-year-old man named Gary Grif­fith—not the for­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er—was shot dead on Tues­day night in Tarou­ba.

A Laven­tille man who had just re­turned home from buy­ing gro­ceries was killed as he drove in­to his yard on Tues­day night.