“No par­ent should have to bury their child,” said a griev­ing Nathaniel Prime, the fa­ther of prison of­fi­cer Ker­ron Prime, who was among two peo­ple killed in a mul­ti-car col­li­sion in Cou­va on Mon­day night.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee says any move to reg­u­larise peo­ple squat­ting at Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) units must first go be­fore the Cab­i­net, fol­low­ing com­ments by HDC chair­man Feeroz Khan.

Blink­ing back tears as he rubbed his red-rimmed eyes and launched in­to the rasta­far­i­an an­them Gideon Boot by Richie Spice, Omar McIn­tyre yes­ter­day mourned, “It ain’t feel good...some­body is miss­ing.”

The in­ter-is­land fer­ry APT James is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 3, 2026, fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of its manda­to­ry five-year dry dock­ing, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has strong­ly de­nied claims that the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is seek­ing to hand over No Man’s Land to a pri­vate de­vel­op­er, a move that would re­sult in ven­dors be­ing forced to va­cate the area.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­ject­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s claim that the ad­di­tion­al fines and fees set to take ef­fect in the new year were ful­ly out­lined in the bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion and the Fi­nance Bill.

De­spite de­nials from Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine that No Man’s Land has been sold or ear­marked for trans­fer, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis is in­sist­ing that ques­tions re­main about the prop­er­ty and the man­age­ment of To­ba­go’s as­sets.

Ad­vo­cates and mem­bers of the mi­grant com­mu­ni­ty have wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pan­sion of the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work, which al­lows for all un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants to reg­is­ter and legal­ly live and work in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Threats made against Trinidad and To­ba­go by Venezuela’s Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion must be treat­ed with ur­gency and cau­tion, ac­cord­ing to Yesina Gon­za­lez, so­cial ac­tivist and spokesper­son for the Venezue­lan com­mu­ni­ty in T&T.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis has claimed that To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) can­di­date Ricky Joe­field pre­vi­ous­ly ben­e­fit­ed from near­ly $10 mil­lion in con­tracts un­der a PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion, de­spite now con­test­ing the elec­tion un­der the TPP ban­ner.

To­ba­go is un­der po­lit­i­cal spot­light as 2026 be­gins, with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions set for Jan­u­ary 12—a cru­cial one for all po­lit­i­cal sides.

The body found along the Ari­ma–Blan­chisseuse Road has been iden­ti­fied as miss­ing 47-year-old Fire Of­fi­cer Bruce Leza­ma.