Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to re­duce road traf­fic fines lat­er this year if road deaths and oth­er se­ri­ous road of­fences de­cline.

Urg­ing adults and chil­dren of St Au­gus­tine South to adopt this as their mantra for the new year, Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day re­flect­ed on the pos­i­tive strides made with­in the com­mu­ni­ty over the past three years.

Rel­a­tives of a man killed in a fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent in Char­lieville on Christ­mas night say they are not con­vinced that a re­cent in­crease in fines for traf­fic of­fences will be enough to im­prove road safe­ty, and they are call­ing for more proac­tive polic­ing.

For years, the Cyril Ross Chil­dren’s Home in Tu­na­puna was a life­line for chil­dren liv­ing with HIV/AIDS. On De­cem­ber 31, 2025, how­ev­er, the in­sti­tu­tion closed its doors af­ter fail­ing to re­ceive its res­i­dence li­cence from the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has not charged a sin­gle per­son un­der the new fire­works law, say­ing the leg­is­la­tion is com­plex and dif­fi­cult to en­force.

The Gov­ern­ment is be­ing called up­on to en­gage in di­a­logue with pro­mot­ers be­fore mak­ing last­ing de­ci­sions about Car­ni­val 2026.

The sis­ter of this coun­try’s first mur­der vic­tim for 2026 is ap­peal­ing to the vic­tims of ex­tor­tion to come for­ward and re­port their ex­pe­ri­ences to the po­lice, as she says her broth­er was al­so pres­sured by crim­i­nals to pay a “tax” in the months be­fore his mur­der.

The son of Amar­jit Balkissoon, who was killed on Old Year’s Night in a road ac­ci­dent in South Oropouche, is de­mand­ing jus­tice.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it will dou­ble down on crime-fight­ing ef­forts in 2026.

A woman, who was left un­able to have chil­dren af­ter un­der­go­ing a pro­ce­dure at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, has sued for med­ical neg­li­gence.

The T&T Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) and the Avi­a­tion, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Al­lied Work­ers Union (ACAWU) have voiced grow­ing con­cern over job se­cu­ri­ty amid Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) route re­duc­tions and re­cent com­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar about turn­ing the air­line around with­in two years. The unions, how­ev­er, once again de­nied re­ports of im­pend­ing strike ac­tion.

Just over sev­en years af­ter it was first in­tro­duced, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has end­ed its “Caribbean Café” buy-on-board ser­vice as part of a broad­er ef­fort to slash op­er­at­ing costs.