Ja­maican-born civ­il rights leader, and pro­po­nent of the Black Na­tion­al­ism and Pan-African­ism move­ments, Mar­cus Gar­vey has been grant­ed a posthu­mous clemen­cy by US Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden on his last day in of­fice. 

Ravi Rag­bir, an im­mi­gra­tion ac­tivist from Trinidad and To­ba­go, who co-found­ed the New Sanc­tu­ary Coali­tion in 2007 has been grant­ed clemen­cy by US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden on his fi­nal day in of­fice. 

Two men were killed in a dou­ble shoot­ing at Up­per St. Fran­cois Val­ley Road, Bel­mont, around 11:10 pm on Sat­ur­day.

The of­fi­cial de­scrip­tion ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al Em­blems of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Reg­u­la­tion) (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, the Coat of Arms re­places the im­age of "three ships" with a more cul­tur­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant im­age of a “gold Steel­pan and its icon­ic two pan sticks."

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley sought to give To­ba­go au­ton­o­my. It has been on his wish list as Prime Min­is­ter.

The fam­i­ly of a 55-year-old woman, who al­leged­ly died from post-surgery com­pli­ca­tions fol­low­ing an op­er­a­tion at San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, has filed a med­ical neg­li­gence law­suit against the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty. Guardian Me­dia ob­tained a copy of the le­gal doc­u­ment, which was filed in Oc­to­ber 2024 and served to the SWRHA in mid-De­cem­ber.

More than a month af­ter grad­u­at­ing, 29 new tran­sit po­lice of­fi­cers are still wait­ing to start their jobs. Guardian Me­dia was told that many of the of­fi­cers left per­ma­nent jobs to join this pro­fes­sion, hav­ing been se­lect­ed out of 2,000 ap­pli­cants.

A mi­nor is ex­pect­ed to be charged with the mur­der of his friend, 15-year-old Beris Joseph. Joseph, from Gold­en Lane, was To­ba­go’s first homi­cide for 2025.

The In­dus­tri­al Court has strong­ly crit­i­cised ma­jor­i­ty state-owned telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of T&T (TSTT) for its han­dling of the re­trench­ment of 500 work­ers, in­clud­ing for­mer Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary-gen­er­al Clyde El­der, in 2018.

The Shad­ow Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs for the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Rod­ney Charles is ask­ing for a bit more trans­paren­cy sur­round­ing the de­ci­sion to grant a na­tion­al award to out­go­ing Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador Can­dace Bond.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly has con­firmed that the stu­dent in­volved in a vi­o­lent al­ter­ca­tion with a teacher at the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School will face sus­pen­sion.

Me­dia per­son­al­i­ty Hans des Vi­gnes has emerged as the front-run­ner in the race for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for the Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.