In a bold move, the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is look­ing to reg­u­larise squat­ters who have tak­en up res­i­dence in some of its un­oc­cu­pied prop­er­ties.

Chair­man of Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Ltd (PFTC), Nyree Al­fon­so, is on a re­cruit­ment dri­ve for six man­agers.

From the roar­ing vrooms of en­gines to the scream­ing screech­es of brakes bring­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of pounds of alu­mini­um al­loy to a halt, peo­ple liv­ing near the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port have grown ac­cus­tomed to the many ear-split­ting sounds emit­ted by planes.

Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness has called on Caribbean na­tions to act with clar­i­ty and co­he­sion amid a rapid­ly shift­ing in­ter­na­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment.

A Cus­toms clerk and a man ac­cused of want­i­ng to kill po­lice of­fi­cers are among four peo­ple held on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders gazetted on Christ­mas Day.

A Cou­va man was ar­rest­ed on Box­ing Day af­ter curs­ing and as­sault­ing an of­fi­cer who came to his home to in­ves­ti­gate a re­port­ed dis­tur­bance by his wife.

A Chi­nese busi­ness­man was robbed of $50,000 cash in Curepe on Christ­mas night, af­ter a man broke his car win­dow and snatched two bags from the front seat be­fore run­ning off.

A fire has left a Princes Town fam­i­ly home­less and stripped of their on­ly source of in­come just days be­fore the new year, forc­ing them to face 2026 with noth­ing but un­cer­tain­ty and heart­break.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­moved sev­er­al con­struc­tion-re­lat­ed ma­te­ri­als from the Open Gen­er­al Li­cence for ex­ports, tight­en­ing con­trols from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The gov­ern­ment has dou­bled the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) toll, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, through a Christ­mas Day le­gal no­tice.

The gov­ern­ment has qui­et­ly dou­bled sev­er­al cus­toms fees, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, through a le­gal no­tice pub­lished on Christ­mas Day.

A busi­ness­man was robbed of $50,000 in cash on Christ­mas night in Curepe, af­ter a man broke his car win­dow and grabbed two bags from the front seat.