The in­fla­tion rate stayed un­changed in De­cem­ber 2024 at the 0.5 per­cent rate that was record­ed the pre­vi­ous month, says the Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) in its lat­est Con­sumer Price In­dex Re­port.

A 61-year-old Laven­tille man was ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to a break-in at a fur­ni­ture store in down­town Port of Spain ear­ly on Tues­day morn­ing.

The Catholic Board of Ed­u­ca­tion (CBE) has con­firmed that a ninth-grade stu­dent at Aquinas Col­lege has died af­ter col­laps­ing dur­ing a phys­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion class.

When the Pal­isades Fire broke out in Los An­ge­les last Tues­day, Hol­ly­wood’s awards sea­son was in full swing. The Gold­en Globes had tran­spired less than 48 hours ear­li­er and a se­ries of splashy awards ban­quets fol­lowed in the days af­ter.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) says projects from four Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries have been se­lect­ed to har­ness the po­ten­tial of sar­gas­sum as a re­source for var­i­ous in­dus­tries.

Mil­lions of South­ern Cal­i­for­ni­ans were on edge as a fi­nal round of dan­ger­ous fire weath­er was fore­cast for the re­gion on Wednes­day, along with a rare warn­ing of a “Par­tic­u­lar­ly Dan­ger­ous Sit­u­a­tion” for an area near where two mas­sive blazes have killed at least 25 and de­stroyed thou­sands of homes.

Po­lice said around 9:22 pm, dou­bles ven­dor Dar­ren Fran­cis and a friend were lis­ten­ing to mu­sic from his white Mit­subishi Lancer on Race Course Road, Cara­po, when they were ap­proached by two masked men, one of whom was hold­ing a piece of iron.

A 72-year-old woman, her daugh­ter and son-in-law were able to es­cape a fire at their home, by jump­ing out the win­dow of the two-storey build­ing in San Juan on Tues­day night.

Lo­cal de­sign­er and jew­eller Gillian Bish­op has sub­mit­ted a de­sign for this coun­try’s new coat of arms. Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell con­firmed this, hours af­ter the Na­tion­al Em­blems of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Reg­u­la­tion) (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025 was unan­i­mous­ly passed in the Low­er House.

As the State of Emer­gency (SoE) con­tin­ues, var­i­ous stake­hold­ers have strong­ly re­ject­ed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s claims that po­lice of­fi­cers in cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties are hid­ing in­side po­lice sta­tions to avoid con­fronting crim­i­nals.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher is strong­ly de­fend­ing her of­fi­cers’ com­mit­ment and readi­ness to serve the pub­lic fol­low­ing claims by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that cops are hid­ing in sta­tions from crim­i­nals. In a me­dia re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, Hare­wood-Christo­pher re­as­sured cit­i­zens that the doors of the po­lice sta­tions are “al­ways open.”

With the State of Emer­gency of­fi­cial­ly ex­tend­ed for three months, from Mon­day night, af­ter re­ceiv­ing full back­ing from both the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion bench­es in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, sev­er­al stake­hold­ers in pol­i­tics and the busi­ness sec­tor have weighed in on the move.