Com­muters faced sig­nif­i­cant dis­rup­tions this morn­ing as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion be­gan a three-day protest over is­sues in­clud­ing speed lim­its.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5,000 maxi taxi op­er­a­tors—the lifeblood of the na­tion’s pub­lic trans­port sys­tem – will come to a planned halt to­day in protest of long-stand­ing griev­ances.

Ed­u­ca­tion stake­hold­ers are call­ing for ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion from the Gov­ern­ment as con­cerns mount over planned in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by maxi taxi op­er­a­tors, warn­ing of se­ri­ous con­se­quences for stu­dents sit­ting na­tion­al ex­am­i­na­tions.

With the start of to­day’s planned strike by maxi taxi op­er­a­tors across the coun­try, mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty fear it could bring wide­spread dis­rup­tion to busi­ness­es and es­sen­tial ser­vices across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Law en­force­ment sources say that while the po­lice are close­ly mon­i­tor­ing any in­crease in gang ac­tiv­i­ty and vi­o­lent at­tacks, there has been no in­tel­li­gence to sug­gest that crim­i­nal fac­tions have agreed to a truce or are unit­ing in a bid to tar­get the au­thor­i­ties.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is warn­ing that any threat against po­lice of­fi­cers will be treat­ed with the ut­most se­ri­ous­ness, as it in­ves­ti­gates a so­cial me­dia post pur­port­ed­ly by a po­lice of­fi­cer al­leg­ing he has re­ceived death threats linked to a court mat­ter.

Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh has pledged to safe­guard the in­de­pen­dence of the ju­di­cia­ry, stress­ing that the courts must re­main a de­fend­er of equal rights and the rule of law for all cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is ex­press­ing con­fi­dence that Trinidad and To­ba­go will se­cure the votes need­ed to win a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC), but stopped short of de­clar­ing the out­come a cer­tain­ty ahead of this week’s bal­lot.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) record­ed an in­crease of 8,000 jobs in the fourth quar­ter (Oc­to­ber to De­cem­ber) of 2025.

Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture pres­i­dent Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo has re­newed a call for the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port to be re­named in ho­n­our of the late for­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day.

A mir­a­cle! That’s what col­leagues, friends and burgess­es of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Freeport/Chick­land coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram said yes­ter­day, af­ter Bali­ram be­gan emerg­ing from a state of un­con­scious­ness, fol­low­ing his sus­pect­ed sui­cide at­tempt.

For years, Trinidad and To­ba­go has grap­pled with the con­se­quences of transna­tion­al crime—il­le­gal guns, nar­cotics, hu­man traf­fick­ing and the vi­o­lence that fol­lows.