Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has urged cit­i­zens to car­ry the spir­it of Christ­mas in­to their dai­ly lives. She made the com­ment as she re­flect­ed on the en­dur­ing themes of fam­i­ly, com­pas­sion and shared hu­man­i­ty in her Christ­mas Day mes­sage to the na­tion.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has as­sured res­i­dents that au­thor­i­ties are close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the height­ened ac­tiv­i­ty at the Pi­paro Mud Vol­cano and tak­ing mea­sures to safe­guard pub­lic safe­ty.

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

Gov­ern­ment teams have be­gun emer­gency re­sponse ef­forts af­ter re­newed ac­tiv­i­ty at the Pi­paro vol­cano caused road dam­age and tem­porar­i­ly cut off some com­mu­ni­ties.

Fear is sweep­ing through the vil­lage of Pi­paro this morn­ing as the mud vol­cano shows height­ened ac­tiv­i­ty, with loud rum­bling and mud and gas­es spew­ing in­to the air.

An­gos­tu­ra has re­leased a lim­it­ed-edi­tion artis­tic pack­ag­ing for its pre­mi­um rum, An­gos­tu­ra Founders Re­serve 1824.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the killing of a 68-year-old woman at her home on Nanan Street, Bam­boo #1, Val­sayn, ear­ly on De­cem­ber 24, 2025.

A 45-year-old dri­ver was kid­napped and robbed dur­ing a ve­hi­cle view­ing in Barataria yes­ter­day.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is deny­ing ac­cu­sa­tions that the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain the for­mer Coat of Arms dur­ing a tran­si­tion pe­ri­od is se­cre­tive, po­lit­i­cal­ly dri­ven or cul­tur­al­ly hos­tile.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has reaf­firmed that its mem­bers re­gard Cari­com as a crit­i­cal eco­nom­ic part­ner, amid re­newed pub­lic scruti­ny of re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the re­gion­al bloc.

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing in a “drunk stu­por” and warned of a “force­ful re­sponse” if Trinidad and To­ba­go al­lows the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary to use its ter­ri­to­ry to at­tack Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter of Do­mini­ca Roo­sevelt Sker­rit has con­firmed that the Unit­ed States has not with­drawn or sus­pend­ed its De­cem­ber 16 procla­ma­tion im­pos­ing par­tial trav­el re­stric­tions, but said the Gov­ern­ment has re­ceived key clar­i­fi­ca­tions on how the mea­sures will be ap­plied.