Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, has paid trib­ute to the par­ty’s 70th an­niver­sary, mark­ing the pub­lic adop­tion of the Peo­ple’s Char­ter on Jan­u­ary 24, 1956.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions af­ter of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a firearm in the South Oropouche area dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Fri­day Jan­u­ary 23, 2026.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­lies of two of the four vic­tims in a div­ing tragedy at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty plan to go ahead with lit­i­ga­tion against the State com­pa­ny and its em­ploy­ee even as they re­ceived $1 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ments from the State, this week.

In a cannabis sup­pres­sion op­er­a­tion, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it suc­cess­ful­ly erad­i­cat­ed a large cannabis crop with­in the Marac, Moru­ga For­est Re­serve.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go on Jan­u­ary 24, 2026, met with a se­nior del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, led by Her Ex­cel­len­cy Noura bint Mo­hammed Al Kaabi, Min­is­ter of State at the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs, as part of ef­forts to strength­en eco­nom­ic co­op­er­a­tion.

Ghana’s Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs Samuel Okudze­to Ablak­wa is sched­uled to ar­rive in Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day for a three-day of­fi­cial vis­it.

Caribbean Air­lines has moved to dis­pel spec­u­la­tion sur­round­ing its of­fice in Kingston, Ja­maica, con­firm­ing that a planned re­lo­ca­tion is linked to the nat­ur­al ex­pi­ra­tion of an ex­ist­ing lease and not to any evic­tion process.
In a news re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, the State-owned car­ri­er said the de­ci­sion re­gard­ing its Hope Road, Kingston lo­ca­tion fol­lows the sched­uled end of the lease arrange­ment and is be­ing man­aged as part of rou­tine busi­ness op­er­a­tions.
The air­line em­pha­sised that there is no evic­tion un­der­way and that it has main­tained open and on­go­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the prop­er­ty own­er, con­sis­tent with stan­dard busi­ness prac­tice. It added that the tran­si­tion is be­ing han­dled in a man­ner in­tend­ed to en­sure con­ti­nu­ity of op­er­a­tions.
Caribbean Air­lines al­so sought to re­as­sure cus­tomers and stake­hold­ers that the re­lo­ca­tion will not dis­rupt ser­vice de­liv­ery. The air­line con­firmed that all op­er­a­tions and ser­vices con­tin­ue as nor­mal, with no in­con­ve­nience to pas­sen­gers.
The clar­i­fi­ca­tion comes amid height­ened scruti­ny of Caribbean Air­lines’ re­gion­al op­er­a­tions and cost man­age­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly as the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to nav­i­gate com­pet­i­tive pres­sures with­in the Caribbean avi­a­tion mar­ket. Ja­maica re­mains a key des­ti­na­tion with­in the air­line’s net­work, serv­ing both busi­ness and leisure trav­ellers and act­ing as an im­por­tant re­gion­al hub.
The air­line re­it­er­at­ed its fo­cus on main­tain­ing re­li­able and seam­less ser­vice, not­ing that cus­tomers should ex­pect no change to flight sched­ules, tick­et­ing ser­vices or cus­tomer sup­port as a re­sult of the of­fice move.
Caribbean Air­lines did not dis­close the new lo­ca­tion of its Kingston of­fice or the time­line for the re­lo­ca­tion, but sig­nalled that fur­ther up­dates would be pro­vid­ed if nec­es­sary.

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to reg­u­larise un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants through a new reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise, ac­tivists are call­ing for ur­gent di­a­logue and clar­i­ty amid fears with­in the Venezue­lan com­mu­ni­ty that com­ing for­ward could lead to de­por­ta­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has an­nounced that the new reg­is­tra­tion process for un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants will be­gin on Mon­day.

Al­though the Gov­ern­ment has award­ed him a $1 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ment, Christo­pher Boodram, the lone sur­vivor of the 2022 Paria Fu­el div­ing tragedy, says his bat­tle for jus­tice is far from over.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Fran­cis Lewis is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency (SoE) in or­der to ad­dress the con­cerns be­ing ex­pressed about the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) law.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the fight against nar­co-traf­fick­ing re­mains ac­tive, even as the Unit­ed States has not car­ried out a ki­net­ic mar­itime strike since the ar­rest of Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.