If you're a T&T pass­port hold­er plan­ning to take a trip this year, you may need to add "ap­ply for a visa" to your to-do list.

Over 10 Caribbean coun­tries have been im­pact­ed as the US State De­part­ment is paus­ing im­mi­grant visa pro­cess­ing for 75 coun­tries in an ef­fort "to crack down on ap­pli­cants deemed like­ly to be­come a pub­lic charge." Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana have not been in­clud­ed.

A new study re­leased by the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) has found that drug use dis­or­ders are a ma­jor and grow­ing pub­lic health prob­lem in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean.

Gov­ern­ment has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to fol­low the ex­am­ple of Ja­maica and in­tro­duce Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs), as the coun­try seeks to take ad­van­tage of the re­duc­tion in mur­ders and oth­er crimes dur­ing a State of Emer­gency (SoE) that is ex­pect­ed to end on Jan­u­ary 31, 2026.

Vic­ar for Ed­u­ca­tion and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Catholic Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment (CEBM), Fr. David Khan, hopes that stu­dents of St. Patrick’s New­town Girls’ RC School will not have to go more than one week with­out school.

Three-time Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Ki Per­sad has qual­i­fied for the 2026 Chut­ney So­ca Monarch semi­fi­nal af­ter a 10-year ab­sence.

Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath said the Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing to re­cov­er treat­ed wa­ter loss­es at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate through an ex­pand­ed Leak Man­age­ment Pro­gramme by the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty.

Amid re­newed con­cerns about hik­er safe­ty, the Hik­ing As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (HATT) is call­ing for long-stand­ing hik­ing guide­lines to be for­mal­ly recog­nised and en­forced.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has ad­dressed claims cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia and oth­er plat­forms about fines and in­sur­ance re­quire­ments linked to de­fen­sive dri­ving cours­es.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty has start­ed im­ple­ment­ing noise man­age­ment mea­sures for the 2026 car­ni­val sea­son un­der the Noise Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Rules, 2001, as amend­ed.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion has com­plet­ed the of­fi­cial re­counts for the Dar­rel Spring Whim and Scar­bor­ough Mt Grace elec­toral dis­tricts in the 2026 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

Re­counts re­quest­ed by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) be­gan yes­ter­day in the Dar­rel Spring/Whim and Scar­bor­ough/Mt Grace elec­toral dis­tricts fol­low­ing Mon­day’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, which the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says was won by the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP).