Even though not all po­lit­i­cal par­ties have signed the Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct, the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour says all can­di­dates and par­ties con­test­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions are, so far, be­hav­ing in keep­ing with its prin­ci­ples.

The Gov­ern­ment has moved to dou­ble most traf­fic fines un­der the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act, with the in­creas­es tak­ing ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

With New Year’s Day less than a week away, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs Kennedy Swarats­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic to be con­sid­er­ate in their use of fire­works for Old Year’s Night cel­e­bra­tions by obey­ing the law.

The num­ber of road fa­tal­i­ties has risen to 108 for the year, fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Pi­ar­co and Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of a Bel­mont woman af­ter she re­port­ed­ly fell from a precipice be­hind her house.

Re­tail­ers at Gulf City Mall were forced to im­ple­ment crowd-con­trol mea­sures yes­ter­day as bar­gain hunters surged as they sought to cap­i­talise on Box­ing Day sales.

Wa­ter trucks have been en­ter­ing the Pi­paro area to sup­ply truck-borne wa­ter to res­i­dents liv­ing near the new­ly ac­tive mud vol­cano, as State agen­cies con­tin­ue to re­spond to the lat­est episode of vol­canic ac­tiv­i­ty that dis­rupt­ed the com­mu­ni­ty on Christ­mas Eve.

For sev­er­al for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers, Christ­mas 2025 was marked less by cel­e­bra­tion and more by sur­vival.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA), Idi Stu­art, says dis­cus­sions may com­mence as ear­ly as next week over the set­tle­ment agree­ment for Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers.

Med­ical out­reach work­er Dr Christi­na Ben­itez has been trav­el­ling to Ica­cos to pro­vide care to Warao chil­dren liv­ing along the south-west­ern coast­line, as the mi­grant pop­u­la­tion in the area con­tin­ues to grow and un­cer­tain­ty deep­ens amid on­go­ing re­gion­al ten­sions.

For­mer Ja­maican am­bas­sador Cur­tis A Ward has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is now firm­ly “in the crosshairs” and is like­ly to face se­ri­ous fall­out for what he de­scribes as its un­re­served sup­port of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tions against Venezuela, while sharply crit­i­cis­ing Caribbean lead­ers for what he called weak­ness and fear in the face of Wash­ing­ton.

An­gli­can Bish­op of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Right Rev­erend Claude Berkley, has called on cit­i­zens to em­brace hope, com­pas­sion, and ac­tion as the na­tion cel­e­brates Christ­mas, a sea­son he de­scribed as es­pe­cial­ly sig­nif­i­cant amid grow­ing anx­i­ety and un­cer­tain­ty.