An el­der­ly woman was found dead in her bed­room in what po­lice sus­pect may have been a home in­va­sion in Up­per Bar­rack­pore yes­ter­day morn­ing. In­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine how 62-year-old Mer­ril Sabessar died, but her Nis­san Ti­i­da was re­port­ed miss­ing.

On De­cem­ber 10, 2025, a Caribbean Air­lines air­craft en­route to Trinidad en­coun­tered GPS jam­ming while prepar­ing to land at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. The in­ter­fer­ence ren­dered blocked GPS sig­nals, forc­ing the pi­lots to switch to back­up sys­tems. The air­craft land­ed safe­ly min­utes lat­er. It’s one of sev­er­al in­ci­dents of de­lib­er­ate GNSS (Glob­al Nav­i­ga­tion Satel­lite Sys­tem) In­ter­fer­ence record­ed over the last few months. Though it does not pose a safe­ty risk to pas­sen­gers, pi­lots have re­port­ed en­coun­ter­ing de­lib­er­ate GNSS In­ter­fer­ence, main­ly jam­ming, at an in­creased rate while fly­ing in the re­gion.

Is­rael said Sun­day its mil­i­tary was con­duct­ing a “large-scale op­er­a­tion” to lo­cate the last hostage in Gaza, as Wash­ing­ton and oth­er me­di­a­tors pres­sure Is­rael and Hamas to move in­to the next phase of their cease­fire.

Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley has pushed back against crit­i­cism from De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Labour Par­ty (DLP) leader Ralph Thorne over the tim­ing of the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, say­ing the process fol­lowed the law and that claims to the con­trary are based on a mis­un­der­stand­ing.

Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act doc­u­ments show the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) tenure paid large sums of mon­ey to a no­to­ri­ous gang­ster, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers, as well as a for­mer PNM Gen­er­al Elec­tion can­di­date.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has come un­der heavy fire from rel­a­tives de­mand­ing jus­tice for last week’s killing of Joshua Sama­roo, and what they have claimed was the at­tempt­ed ex­e­cu­tion of his com­mon-law wife and US cit­i­zen Ka­ia Sealy.

Since the Unit­ed States op­er­a­tion that led to the ar­rest of Venezuela’s oust­ed pres­i­dent, Nicolás Maduro, Trinidad and To­ba­go has found it­self stand­ing apart from much of the Caribbean. The Gov­ern­ment’s pub­lic praise for the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tion against il­le­gal drug run­ning in the South­ern Caribbean and Venezuela — an ac­tion many in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­perts have ques­tioned — has fu­elled fresh ques­tions about T&T’s place with­in a frac­tured re­gion­al bloc strained by diplo­mat­ic ten­sion.

State com­pa­ny Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and pri­vate div­ing com­pa­ny Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (LM­CS) have been giv­en un­til the end of next month to de­cide whether they wish to set­tle le­gal dis­putes with the fam­i­lies of two of the four vic­tims in a div­ing tragedy at Paria’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022.

Ahead of lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tions, the Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, is be­ing called on to be more de­ci­sive in her de­ci­sions and shed some po­lit­i­cal bag­gage if the par­ty is to re­turn to pow­er.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress marked six­teen years of lead­er­ship un­der Po­lit­i­cal Leader and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day, recog­nis­ing a tenure that be­gan in Jan­u­ary 2010 and has spanned more than a decade and a half of par­ty and na­tion­al pol­i­tics.

In the still­ness of a Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a large ship docked on the wa­ter­front near the Hy­att Re­gency in Port-of-Spain. There are many ships that dock on those wa­ters week­ly, but this ves­sel presents a glimpse in­to an in­dus­try long­ing to be dis­cov­ered in this coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned that her Gov­ern­ment will not in­crease fund­ing for re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions, say­ing tax­pay­ers’ mon­ey must be used for es­sen­tial ser­vices rather than “fet­ing, rum, win­ing on the road and pay­ing for ghost projects.”