Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain South, Kei­th Scot­land, spent his Christ­mas morn­ing giv­ing back to his con­stituents dur­ing his sixth an­nu­al Christ­mas Soup Kitchen on George Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

A Princes Town cou­ple has been sen­tenced to a com­bined 29 years in prison for the killing of the woman’s abu­sive ex-boyfriend.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says res­i­dents of Moru­ga are ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit from in­creased po­lice man­pow­er, ve­hi­cles and im­proved in­ves­tiga­tive ser­vices fol­low­ing the up­grade of the St Mary’s Po­lice Post to a full po­lice sta­tion.

This was not the Christ­mas that Mariela Gómez would have imag­ined a year ago. Or the one that thou­sands of oth­er Venezue­lan im­mi­grants would have thought. But Don­ald Trump re­turned to the White House in Jan­u­ary and quick­ly end­ed their Amer­i­can dream.

Pope Leo XIV dur­ing his first Christ­mas Day homi­ly on Thurs­day re­mem­bered the peo­ple of Gaza “ex­posed for weeks to rain, wind and cold” and said the world’s many con­flicts can on­ly be si­lenced through di­a­logue.

De­spite height­ened ac­tiv­i­ty af­ter the Pi­paro mud vol­cano erupt­ed yes­ter­day, no res­i­dents were evac­u­at­ed.

Res­i­dents of Bam­boo No 1, Val­sayn, were left hor­ri­fied yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter learn­ing that Shaf­fi­na Ho­sein Madoo had been killed by her com­mon-law part­ner.

The Min­istry of De­fence says an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched to de­ter­mine how drone footage was ob­tained of a re­strict­ed area near the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go, where a Unit­ed States–in­stalled mil­i­tary radar is lo­cat­ed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in her Christ­mas mes­sage, has em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of safe­ty, com­pas­sion, and re­flec­tion dur­ing the fes­tive sea­son.

Min­is­ter of Works Jear­lean John has sought to re­as­sure man­u­fac­tur­ers and ex­porters that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) re­mains strong, even as re­gion­al ten­sions es­ca­late fol­low­ing re­cent pub­lic ex­changes among lead­ers.

Ac­cord­ing to the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC), which con­firmed the fig­ures via a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest, 122 keys were hand­ed over be­tween April 28 and No­vem­ber 21. The re­port did not in­clude al­lo­ca­tions be­fore April.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for faith, uni­ty and re­newed hope dur­ing what she has de­scribed as “a sea­son of both re­flec­tion and chal­lenge.”