Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has as­sured the pub­lic that the coun­try re­mains sta­ble af­ter shoot­ing erupt­ed near Mi­raflo­res Palace in Cara­cas on Mon­day night.

With To­ba­go head­ing to the polls on Mon­day, at­ten­tion is on how po­lit­i­cal par­ties are con­cen­trat­ing re­sources and rhetoric on a hand­ful of mar­gin­al elec­toral dis­tricts that could ul­ti­mate­ly de­cide con­trol of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris has dared sit­ting In­fra­struc­ture Sec­re­tary Trevor James to present any ev­i­dence he claims to have re­gard­ing an al­leged mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar road con­struc­tion scan­dal to the po­lice, in­sist­ing that threats of jail time “mean noth­ing.”

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­firmed that a tem­po­rary car­go ves­sel has been se­cured and is en route to the coun­try to main­tain the in­ter-is­land car­go sea bridge.

Since Sun­day night, the Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (SWM­COL) has been work­ing to con­tain and man­age a fire at the Beetham Land­fill.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith and re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah have de­scribed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) as a vi­able and ef­fec­tive op­tion once the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends, warn­ing that crime could surge if emer­gency pow­ers are lift­ed with­out prop­er con­tin­gency plan­ning.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee said sev­er­al hous­ing projects are near­ing com­ple­tion and will be hand­ed over to ap­pli­cants in the first quar­ter of 2026.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju of the Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain, has been ap­point­ed Chap­lain of His Ho­li­ness by Pope Leo XIV and has been con­ferred the ti­tle of Mon­sign­or.

A group of over 50 prospec­tive landown­ers have se­cured a par­tial vic­to­ry in their le­gal dis­pute over a failed de­vel­op­ment in south Trinidad.

A po­lice con­sta­ble ac­cused of mur­der has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a law­suit over a de­ci­sion by the po­lice to charge him for am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion un­der the Firearms Act af­ter he was ar­rest­ed and de­tained un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

In an at­tempt to fur­ther reg­u­larise and for­malise vend­ing in the cap­i­tal city, the City Cor­po­ra­tion has draft­ed 2026 con­tracts for reg­is­tered ven­dors of the Char­lotte Street and En­vi­rons Vend­ing Pro­gramme.

More than two weeks af­ter 70-year-old busi­ness­man Der­rick Tardieu was re­leased from kid­nap­pers, the where­abouts of his wife, Clari­bel Tardieu, re­main un­known, with var­i­ous re­sources still as­signed to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to their ab­duc­tion.