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.

A prison of­fi­cer and a car wash op­er­a­tor were killed in an ac­ci­dent along the Mc Bean stretch of the South­ern Main Road in Cou­va last evening.

The U.S. im­posed sanc­tions on 10 peo­ple and firms from Iran and Venezuela over al­leged­ly con­tribut­ing to Iran’s drone trade and bal­lis­tics pro­gram which the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion says threat­ens the U.S. and its al­lies in the Mid­dle East.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­nied claims that the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is seek­ing to hand over No Man’s Land to a pri­vate de­vel­op­er, a move that would force ven­dors to leave the area.

Eight-year-old Gideon Smart was crushed to death yes­ter­day, af­ter a run­away truck crashed in­to his fam­i­ly’s home at Sa­van­nah Road, Arou­ca.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made it clear that Trinidad and To­ba­go is not part of any mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions against Venezuela and is di­rect­ing all ques­tions about what ap­pears to be the Unit­ed States’ first strike on Venezue­lan soil to the US Em­bassy.