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.”

Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), Christo­pher Streete, says they will meet with Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al on Mon­day morn­ing to be­gin ne­go­ti­a­tions for the pe­ri­ods 2014–2016 and 2017–2019.

A 31-year-old man suf­fered head in­juries af­ter he was beat­en dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Clax­ton Bay on Wednes­day. Po­lice said around 11.45 pm, a 46-year-old woman, who owns a busi­ness, ar­rived at her Pranz Gar­dens home in her black Kia Sportage. She was ac­cost­ed in the garage by three sus­pects, armed with a firearm and a cut­lass. They forced her in­to her home, where they met the oth­er vic­tim, a 31-year-old man. They struck him sev­er­al times on the head and face with the gun butt and tied the hands of both vic­tims. The ban­dits then ran­sacked the house, leav­ing with cash, jew­ellery, al­co­hol, and cell­phones.

The fam­i­ly of a man who died in a car ac­ci­dent with an un­marked po­lice ve­hi­cle in Cou­va in 2018 is set to re­ceive a lit­tle over $300,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.

Padarath de­scribed the role of Po­lit­i­cal Leader as de­mand­ing “not on­ly po­lit­i­cal acu­men, but emo­tion­al in­tel­li­gence, or­gan­i­sa­tion­al dis­ci­pline, re­silience un­der pres­sure, and an un­wa­ver­ing moral com­pass,” adding that it re­quires long nights, per­son­al sac­ri­fice, and crit­i­cal de­ci­sion-mak­ing that af­fect thou­sands, and some­times mil­lions.

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.