Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy Ernesto Ke­sar has con­firmed that charges have been laid un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act in re­la­tion to the col­lapse of Rig 110.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne wants cit­i­zens and tourists to know the city is open and safe this Christ­mas sea­son, with a 24/7 po­lice pres­ence on In­de­pen­dence Square and its en­vi­rons.

A for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tor has scored a pre­lim­i­nary le­gal vic­to­ry in its law­suit chal­leng­ing the sud­den ter­mi­na­tion of its con­tract in 2020. 

A res­i­dent of Chase Vil­lage, Cara­pichaima, has suc­ceed­ed in his law­suit against the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) for al­low­ing a con­crete batch­ing plant to op­er­ate in his com­mu­ni­ty with­out a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC). 

The life and lega­cy of Fer­di­nand “Fer­die” Fer­reira—po­lit­i­cal or­gan­is­er, trade union­ist and life­long ad­vo­cate for the work­ing class—was cel­e­brat­ed yes­ter­day as fam­i­ly, friends and politi­cians gath­ered to bid farewell to a man wide­ly de­scribed as a con­science of pol­i­tics and a liv­ing li­brary of the na­tion’s his­to­ry.

Po­lice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, ASP Ish­mael Pitt, says po­lice of­fi­cers have been work­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly with lit­tle re­lief since the 2024 State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared by the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment.

The Sal­va­tion Army host­ed its Christ­mas Food Ham­per Dis­tri­b­u­tion yes­ter­day at its head­quar­ters on Hen­ry Street, Port of Spain, con­tin­u­ing its an­nu­al ef­fort to sup­port fam­i­lies dur­ing the hol­i­day pe­ri­od.

Hunter Paul Cam­po has been found alive af­ter go­ing miss­ing in the Guayagua­yare for­est over the week­end.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has moved to deep­en the use of da­ta and ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in ex­port de­vel­op­ment, sign­ing a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing with Wiz­dom­CRM Nex­Gen An­a­lytix Ltd to de­ploy a Glob­al Ex­port AI Plat­form aimed at im­prov­ing how man­u­fac­tur­ers as­sess and en­ter for­eign mar­kets.

Hu­man Rights Watch (HRW) has pub­lished a de­tailed ques­tion-and-an­swer doc­u­ment in which it analy­ses the le­gal and hu­man rights im­pli­ca­tions of the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pa­cif­ic.

Two Caribbean coun­tries—An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and Do­mini­ca—are now sub­ject to new Unit­ed States trav­el re­stric­tions un­der a procla­ma­tion signed by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, cit­ing con­cerns over screen­ing, vet­ting and cit­i­zen­ship by in­vest­ment pro­grammes.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is ex­pand­ing its trav­el ban to in­clude five more coun­tries and im­pose new lim­its on oth­ers.