The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has called for com­mu­ni­ca­tion on the im­ple­men­ta­tion and im­pact of Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions as the Gov­ern­ment moves to use the mea­sure in re­sponse to crime.

Po­lice seized il­le­gal con­tra­band dur­ing a joint in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise at the Women’s Prison, Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca this morn­ing.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Fe­l­isha Thomas, said a PSA del­e­ga­tion held ne­go­ti­a­tions with the four Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties on out­stand­ing wage mat­ters.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­in­forced her sup­port for the Unit­ed States as “the leader of the free world in this hemi­sphere,” and she’s said US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has done noth­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go, but maybe he has some oth­er peo­ple to deal with.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day not­ed that over the last sev­en months, Gov­ern­ment has al­ready brought 13 pieces of leg­is­la­tion to Par­lia­ment and an­oth­er three were to be de­bat­ed yes­ter­day.

Venezue­lan ad­vo­cates say near­ly 20 Venezue­lan mi­grants have been is­sued de­por­ta­tion or­ders for il­le­gal en­try since De­cem­ber, af­ter ap­proach­ing Im­mi­gra­tion of­fices for in­for­ma­tion on the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion pro­gramme.

The Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed mea­sure to ease the im­pact of the strict road traf­fic fines in­tro­duced at the start of the year moved a step clos­er to im­ple­men­ta­tion yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the pas­sage of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Bill in the Low­er House. The leg­is­la­tion comes af­ter many penal­ties were dou­bled, spark­ing wide­spread pub­lic con­cern.

The Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries Min­istry has re­quest­ed an au­dit in­to the Youth Agri­cul­tur­al Home­stead (YAHP) pro­gramme fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of cer­tain cost is­sues—and Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein has di­rect­ed PNM leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les' queries on it to for­mer Youth De­vel­op­ment min­is­ter Fos­ter Cum­mings.

The Op­po­si­tion is an­tic­i­pat­ing a wave of law­suits against the State from nu­mer­ous peo­ple de­tained but not charged un­der the cur­rent na­tion­al State of Emer­gency (SoE).

As the Gov­ern­ment moves to im­ple­ment Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) af­ter the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ex­pires on Jan­u­ary 31, res­i­dents of Rich­plain in Diego Mar­tin say their com­mu­ni­ty does not re­quire such in­ter­ven­tion. Still, some con­cede that the stig­ma of the area be­ing a crime hotspot and its as­so­ci­a­tion with the late Ja­maat al Mus­limeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr could make its in­clu­sion like­ly.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne has warned that the cap­i­tal city could face se­ri­ous san­i­ta­tion chal­lenges fol­low­ing Car­ni­val 2026, as deep cuts to the City Cor­po­ra­tion’s bud­get and the clo­sure of CEPEP threat­en the tra­di­tion­al post-Car­ni­val clean-up op­er­a­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the law to pro­vide To­ba­go with au­ton­o­my will be brought to Par­lia­ment this fis­cal year.