The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has ac­knowl­edged con­cerns raised by the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion about the con­di­tion of se­cu­ri­ty booths at sev­er­al schools and said it is com­plet­ing an as­sess­ment of the af­fect­ed fa­cil­i­ties.

Laugh­ter, mu­sic and the spir­it of Christ­mas filled Ram­bert Vil­lage, La Ro­maine, as the chil­dren of late pri­vate school teacher Ena Sir­ju car­ried on her four-decade tra­di­tion of giv­ing by host­ing a fes­tive com­mu­ni­ty treat in her mem­o­ry, months af­ter her death in April.

Min­is­ter of Cul­ture Michelle Ben­jamin says Trinidad and To­ba­go can ex­pect a “bumper” Car­ni­val in 2026, de­spite on­go­ing na­tion­al anx­i­ety and wider re­gion­al ten­sions.

Sales through­out Ch­agua­nas have been rel­a­tive­ly slow, with many busi­ness­es re­port­ing a no­tice­able de­cline com­pared with the same pe­ri­od last year.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is promis­ing to cre­ate 7,000 jobs in To­ba­go over the next four years un­der its Big, Bold and Red man­i­festo, which the par­ty says will dri­ve pri­vate-sec­tor growth and trans­form the is­land’s econ­o­my.

Res­i­dents of Union Hall are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment and the Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion to ur­gent­ly ad­dress garbage build-up in their com­mu­ni­ty, say­ing the sit­u­a­tion has wors­ened as Christ­mas ap­proach­es.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) closed off day 11 of Op­er­a­tion Fes­tive Shield yes­ter­day, with a Christ­mas Car­a­van that be­gan in St James and end­ed in Aranguez.

The body of a Beetham man, who was last seen on Sat­ur­day, was found in the Sea Lots swamp yes­ter­day.

GPS dis­rup­tions have been af­fect­ing flights in and around Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, ac­cord­ing to re­port­ing by The New York Times over the week­end.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised se­ri­ous con­cerns over what she de­scribes as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s “dic­ta­to­r­i­al” be­hav­iour, fol­low­ing com­ments made by the head of gov­ern­ment in re­sponse to ques­tions about a po­ten­tial mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ty.

CARI­COM Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett has called on the re­gion to deep­en uni­ty and col­lec­tive ac­tion as Caribbean states con­front the ef­fects of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, geopo­lit­i­cal pres­sures and eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty.

Ukrain­ian forces hit an oil ter­mi­nal, a pipeline, two parked jet fight­ers and two ships in a se­ries of strikes on Russ­ian soil, of­fi­cials said Mon­day.