Ten­sions are set to rise on the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine cam­pus from to­day when the West In­di­an Group of Uni­ver­si­ty Teach­ers (WIGUT) launch­es a Red Rev­o­lu­tion protest by march­ing to the of­fice of prin­ci­pal Prof Rose-Marie Belle An­toine.

On his fi­nal day in of­fice, US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden grant­ed clemen­cy to two Caribbean na­tion­als, Mar­cus Gar­vey, a Ja­maican-born civ­il rights leader, and Ravi Rag­bir, an im­mi­gra­tion ac­tivist from T&T. They were in­clud­ed in a list of five in­di­vid­u­als par­doned and two who re­ceived sen­tence com­mu­ta­tions, as part of Biden’s use of clemen­cy pow­ers to recog­nise “re­morse, re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, and re­demp­tion.”

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of a moth­er of two who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Beetham Gar­dens on Sat­ur­day evening. 

As the coun­try record­ed two more dou­ble mur­ders for the month, the Op­po­si­tion dou­bled down on its claims that the state of emer­gency (SoE) im­ple­ment­ed on De­cem­ber 30 2024, is use­less.

T&TEC New East Side Di­men­sion topped the se­mi-fi­nals of the Na­tion­al Panora­ma Small Con­ven­tion­al Bands com­pe­ti­tion on Sat­ur­day, scor­ing 275 with its ren­di­tion of Lord Kitch­en­er’s Rain-O-Ra­ma.

WASH­ING­TON — A rau­cous vic­to­ry ral­ly yes­ter­day high­light­ed Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s first full day back in Wash­ing­ton since the elec­tion as the Re­pub­li­can cel­e­brat­ed his re­turn to the White House and pro­ject­ed de­fi­ant op­ti­mism de­spite deep na­tion­al po­lit­i­cal di­vi­sions on the eve of his in­au­gu­ra­tion.

Don­ald Trump’s in­au­gu­ra­tion as the coun­try’s 47th pres­i­dent was ex­pect­ed to be an ex­trav­a­gant break from tra­di­tion—be­fore it got moved in­doors due to cold weath­er.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM af­fairs says Gov­ern­ment has been close­ly mon­i­tor­ing "an­nounce­ments and de­c­la­ra­tions in the build-up to the In­au­gu­ra­tion of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump." In a state­ment, he said while the coun­try has the ex­pe­ri­ence of en­gag­ing with a pre­vi­ous Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion from 2017 to 2021, the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion will present its own chal­lenges.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says cash flow con­straints have re­sult­ed in a one-month de­lay in com­plet­ing the re­pay­ment of val­ue added tax­es to com­pa­nies and bu­reau­cra­cy.

The Women Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of Trinidad and To­ba­go (WPTT) has launched the YES! Lead­er­ship Pro­gramme 2025. The pro­gramme, aimed at young women be­tween the ages of 18 and 29, fo­cus­es on en­cour­ag­ing them to take on lead­er­ship roles, par­tic­u­lar­ly in par­lia­men­tary ser­vice.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) says the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis in Haiti has reached a crit­i­cal point, with one in eight chil­dren now in­ter­nal­ly dis­placed due to es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence fu­eled by armed groups who con­tin­ue to con­trol most of the cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince.

A woman was ar­rest­ed for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence af­ter she crashed in­to a po­lice car which was parked on the high­way to di­vert trafff­ic af­ter an ear­li­er ac­ci­dent.