Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s par­tial pay­ment of back­pay to pub­lic ser­vants, em­pha­sis­ing that it was ex­e­cut­ed re­spon­si­bly—with­out bor­row­ing or tap­ping in­to the Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Fund (HSF). He said this was done de­spite the se­vere eco­nom­ic chal­lenges in­her­it­ed from the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is con­sid­er­ing sell­ing or leas­ing its sev­en malls across Trinidad af­ter rack­ing up more than $3.1 mil­lion in un­paid rent.

Changes to the for­eign ex­change regime have been long over­due. This was the com­mon­ly shared view fol­low­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of Com­merce’s re­lease of a po­si­tion pa­per out­lin­ing caus­es and so­lu­tions to the coun­try’s wors­en­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) cri­sis while urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to take ac­tion.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says the Gov­ern­ment and par­tic­u­lar­ly his min­istry, will be con­sid­er­ing all op­tions to se­cure the coun­try as US mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ties con­tin­ue in the re­gion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is con­fi­dent that the po­lice will thor­ough­ly and fair­ly in­ves­ti­gate the re­port­ed theft of a gun from a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer, who had at­tend­ed a Christ­mas din­ner at his sta­tion on Thurs­day night.

Nes­tled in the north­east­ern coast of Trinidad, pil­lowed by ver­dant veg­e­ta­tion on land and blan­ket­ed by the surf of the Caribbean Sea, is the coastal com­mu­ni­ty of Matelot.

In­ter­Caribbean Air­ways will launch di­rect ser­vice be­tween Bar­ba­dos and Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on March 6, 2026. The Turks and Caicos-based car­ri­er con­firmed via so­cial me­dia that Port of Spain is among five new des­ti­na­tions to be ser­viced through its Bar­ba­dos hub, join­ing Tor­to­la, George­town, Sint Maarten, and the air­line’s home base in the Turks and Caicos. The air­line will op­er­ate four week­ly flights to Trinidad on Sun­days, Mon­days, Wednes­days, and Fri­days us­ing its ATR 42-500 fleet.

The in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency, Moody’s, has up­grad­ed Ja­maica’s long-term is­suer and se­nior un­se­cured rat­ings to Ba3 from B1, chang­ing the out­look to sta­ble from pos­i­tive.

Two men are be­ing treat­ed for stab wounds af­ter they were at­tacked at bars in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents be­tween Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A 74-year-old St Anns woman en­gaged in a brief car chase with a ban­dit who snatched her hand­bag which even­tu­al­ly led to him throw­ing it back to her on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty has is­sued a state­ment on a procla­ma­tion by the Gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed States which places en­try re­stric­tions on na­tion­als of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and the Com­mon­wealth of Do­mini­ca.

As the San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School tri­umphed at the An­nu­al Jum­bo Pri­ma­ry Schools Chess Tour­na­ment 2025, calls have been made for the gov­ern­ment to sup­port chess de­vel­op­ment so that more chil­dren could get in­volved in the sport.