Busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions have ex­pressed strong sup­port for the Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, with sev­er­al cham­bers say­ing the leg­is­la­tion could sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove se­cu­ri­ty for cit­i­zens and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is­sued a warn­ing to air­lines, pi­lots, and what he de­scribed as “drug deal­ers and hu­man traf­fick­ers” to con­sid­er all air­space over and around Venezuela “closed.”

Cen­tral Trinidad will no longer be side­lined or ig­nored, de­clared Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ca­roni Cen­tral MP David Lee, as he de­liv­ered a force­ful ad­dress at the Cou­va Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce’s an­nu­al Christ­mas and Awards Func­tion. The event was held on Fri­day at the Cham­ber’s ad­min­is­tra­tive com­plex on Cam­den Road, Cou­va.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she ini­tial­ly with­held full de­tails about the pres­ence of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary per­son­nel in To­ba­go be­cause it was a sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mat­ter. How­ev­er, she added that fol­low­ing per­sis­tent ques­tion­ing from the me­dia, that se­cu­ri­ty ad­van­tage has now been com­pro­mised.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro spoke by phone last week and dis­cussed a pos­si­ble meet­ing, but none has been sched­uled, ac­cord­ing to the New York Times.

The Chief Sec­re­tary has for­mal­ly re­quest­ed full de­tails on the radar sys­tem be­ing in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Venezuela’s se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus has in­creased its pres­ence in ar­eas in the east­ern end of the coun­try that face Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er Caribbean na­tions, ac­cord­ing to me­dia re­ports there.

As for­eign mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in­ten­si­fies across the Caribbean—deep­en­ing di­vi­sions with­in Cari­com over how the re­gion should re­spond—the Gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day amend­ed an Op­po­si­tion mo­tion that sought to con­demn the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­cent pub­lic state­ments on the mat­ter.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is de­mand­ing clar­i­ty from the gov­ern­ment af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­versed her ac­count of why US mil­i­tary per­son­nel are in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Speak­ing out­side the Red House yes­ter­day, Beck­les ques­tioned why nei­ther To­ba­go’s Chief Sec­re­tary nor the wider pub­lic had been con­sult­ed, say­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s shift­ing ex­pla­na­tions have fu­elled anx­i­ety rather than eased it.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Stu­art Young says Trinidad and To­ba­go must not drift away from long-stand­ing for­eign pol­i­cy prin­ci­ples that keep the re­gion free from mil­i­tary con­flict, warn­ing that “war has no place in the Caribbean.”

In a shock­ing move yes­ter­day, the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Jee­van Joseph, was sent on leave, five months af­ter be­ing ap­point­ed to the top post at the state-owned com­pa­ny.

For­mer trade union­ist and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Clyde El­der, says the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion’s (PSA) ten per cent wage set­tle­ment for 2014 to 2019 is un­like­ly to set a prece­dent for oth­er labour groups.