For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Vish­nu Dhan­paul has pushed back against claims by his suc­ces­sor, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, that a new­ly se­cured US$1 bil­lion loan sig­nals strong in­ter­na­tion­al con­fi­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my.

Pres­i­dent of the Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers’ Union (AWU), Michael Pren­tice, says he is look­ing for­ward to up­com­ing dis­cus­sions with Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al as ne­go­ti­a­tions over out­stand­ing wage agree­ments con­tin­ue.

Civ­il rights at­tor­neys have filed a fed­er­al law­suit against the US gov­ern­ment on be­half of the fam­i­lies of two Trinida­di­an men who were killed when their fish­ing pirogue was blown up dur­ing one of the ear­ly mil­i­tary airstrikes off the coast of Venezuela last year.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment is prepar­ing to re­ceive St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Ter­rance Drew, af­ter he sig­nalled in­ter­est in vis­it­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go in his ca­pac­i­ty as chair of Cari­com.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) vice chair­man Dr Amery Browne launched a scathing in­dict­ment of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar at the par­ty’s 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions at Queen’s Hall on Mon­day.

Com­plaints from Fla­va Vil­lage pa­trons whose ve­hi­cles were parked near­by and lat­er wrecked have sparked a back-and-forth be­tween Port of Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne and Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin.

An ar­gu­ment over a dog spilling cof­fee beans left one man in the hos­pi­tal nurs­ing chop wounds while an­oth­er was ar­rest­ed.

Lib­er­ty Caribbean has been named the Di­a­mond Spon­sor of CAN­TO Con­nect 2026, the Caribbean’s ma­jor telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and ICT con­fer­ence, sched­uled for Feb­ru­ary 1 to 3 at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel in Port of Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Rel­a­tives of 14-year-old Ka­reema Joseph are pray­ing for her safe re­turn af­ter she was last seen over the week­end.

An ar­gu­ment over a dog spilling cof­fee beans left one man in hos­pi­tal nurs­ing chop wounds while an­oth­er was ar­rest­ed.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has as­sured par­ents, guardians, and the pub­lic that schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ue to op­er­ate in a safe and se­cure man­ner, with learn­ing ac­tiv­i­ties on­go­ing in all ed­u­ca­tion dis­tricts.

Sev­en men were ar­rest­ed and two stolen ve­hi­cles re­cov­ered dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in the Four Roads dis­trict on Mon­day night.