As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to pay a ten per cent wage in­crease and rough­ly $3.8 bil­lion in back­pay to pub­lic ser­vants, econ­o­mists say the fi­nan­cial and macro­eco­nom­ic ef­fects must not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ed.

Af­ter re­veal­ing that the in­di­vid­ual charged with threat­en­ing his life on­line is em­ployed at a gov­ern­ment agency, Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne is call­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter to “cool it” and “mod­er­ate” her lan­guage, ar­gu­ing that her ag­gres­sive rhetoric is en­cour­ag­ing sup­port­ers to en­gage in tox­ic be­hav­iour on so­cial me­dia.

For­mer To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty mem­ber Cer­ti­ca Williams has re­ferred to the US mil­i­tary radar in­stal­la­tion at Crown Point as a “Christ­mas gift.”

That was the call from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man, who said the re­cent pres­ence of a US mil­i­tary plane in To­ba­go was a trau­ma­tis­ing ex­pe­ri­ence for To­bag­o­ni­ans, who didn’t know what was go­ing on and re­main fear­ful to date.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says next month’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion is a fight to keep the is­land “out of the hands of Sa­tan and his chil­dren.”

This is how for­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has de­scribed claus­es in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment's Fi­nance Bill 2025 which seek to place po­lit­i­cal ap­pointees on the Board of In­land Rev­enue, and an­oth­er clause to in­crease Gov­ern­ment's for­eign bor­row­ing lim­it by at least $15 bil­lion.

The fam­i­ly of 74-year-old Sookh­daya Ju­ry had been ex­cit­ed­ly prepar­ing to wel­come her to Cana­da for Christ­mas. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, they will now be trav­el­ling to Trinidad for her fu­ner­al af­ter she was mur­dered in her home.

For­mer head of the pub­lic ser­vice Reynold Coop­er and for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith say there is no law that would man­date that Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine be part of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC).

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help (NC­SH) Lim­it­ed have vis­it­ed the Laven­tille Road, San Juan home of Adan­na Winn, who has been liv­ing in a se­vere­ly di­lap­i­dat­ed struc­ture for years. How­ev­er, she was left dis­ap­point­ed af­ter be­ing de­nied a grant for re­fur­bish­ment works.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of South Trinidad cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions have warned the Gov­ern­ment that they may seek le­gal reme­dies af­ter abrupt bans on key event venues jeop­ar­dised prepa­ra­tions for Car­ni­val 2026.

Re­tired Coast Guard Lt Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al says there is no need for con­cern fol­low­ing a re­cruit­ment ad­ver­tise­ment for the De­fence Force re­serves, as such prac­tices have been the norm in the mil­i­tary for some time.

A 32-year-old moth­er of two from Ch­agua­nas has been re­leased on bail af­ter plead­ing guilty to in­cit­ing vi­o­lence to­wards gov­ern­ment mem­bers in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia posts.