Prison au­thor­i­ties are prob­ing the sud­den death of a pris­on­er who is said to have fall­en ill at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Gold­en Grove on Christ­mas Day and was rushed to the hos­pi­tal, where he lat­er died.

Cer­ti­fied tour guides in To­ba­go are prepar­ing to hold dis­cus­sions on any pos­si­ble fall­out from on­go­ing ten­sions in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, as they as­sess how the sit­u­a­tion could af­fect the re­main­der of the tourism sea­son.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) has raised con­cerns that blind and vi­su­al­ly im­paired per­sons were ex­clud­ed from re­cent pub­lic hous­ing al­lo­ca­tions, de­spite Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to in­clude per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties.

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.

Guyana’s non-oil econ­o­my grew by 13.8 per cent in the first half of 2025, ac­cord­ing to the mid-year eco­nom­ic re­port.

The usu­al throngs of shop­pers who tra­di­tion­al­ly line up out­side stores for Box­ing Day bar­gains were no­tice­ably ab­sent along High Street, San Fer­nan­do, a con­trast to pre­vi­ous years when long lines formed be­fore dawn to cap­i­talise on deep dis­counts.

The Pin­to Road, Ari­ma com­mu­ni­ty was thrown in­to shock yes­ter­day, af­ter a group of gun­men stormed a home and shot two peo­ple dead, in­clud­ing a 14-year-old boy.

Af­ter three break-ins this week, a Christ­mas Day op­er­a­tion led by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der brought re­sults for the po­lice, af­ter four ban­dits were ar­rest­ed while at­tempt­ing to rob the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) fa­cil­i­ty in Mau­si­ca.

Christ­mas Day brought added joy to many fam­i­lies as a to­tal of sev­en ba­bies were born as of press time yes­ter­day.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju, has warned that the on­go­ing threat of con­flict in the re­gion will di­rect­ly im­pact Trinidad and To­ba­go, and cit­i­zens must help each oth­er and not be­come self­ish.

While many slept com­fort­ably in­to Christ­mas morn­ing, it was an un­easy night for sev­er­al Pi­paro res­i­dents liv­ing near the Pi­paro Mud Vol­cano, as re­newed ac­tiv­i­ty and land move­ment threat­ened their safe­ty.

Il­le­gal gam­bling op­er­a­tions across the coun­try are cost­ing the Gov­ern­ment bil­lions an­nu­al­ly. Po­lice say these op­er­a­tions are al­so fu­elling gang vi­o­lence, hu­man traf­fick­ing and con­tra­band smug­gling.