For­mer To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty mem­ber Cer­ti­ca Williams has re­ferred to the US mil­i­tary radar in­stal­la­tion at Crown Point as a “Christ­mas gift.”

That was the call from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man, who said the re­cent pres­ence of a US mil­i­tary plane in To­ba­go was a trau­ma­tis­ing ex­pe­ri­ence for To­bag­o­ni­ans, who didn’t know what was go­ing on and re­main fear­ful to date.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says next month’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion is a fight to keep the is­land “out of the hands of Sa­tan and his chil­dren.”

The fam­i­ly of 74-year-old Sookh­daya Ju­ry had been ex­cit­ed­ly prepar­ing to wel­come her to Cana­da for Christ­mas. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, they will now be trav­el­ling to Trinidad for her fu­ner­al af­ter she was mur­dered in her home.

For­mer head of the pub­lic ser­vice Reynold Coop­er and for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith say there is no law that would man­date that Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine be part of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC).

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help (NC­SH) Lim­it­ed have vis­it­ed the Laven­tille Road, San Juan home of Adan­na Winn, who has been liv­ing in a se­vere­ly di­lap­i­dat­ed struc­ture for years. How­ev­er, she was left dis­ap­point­ed af­ter be­ing de­nied a grant for re­fur­bish­ment works.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of South Trinidad cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions have warned the Gov­ern­ment that they may seek le­gal reme­dies af­ter abrupt bans on key event venues jeop­ar­dised prepa­ra­tions for Car­ni­val 2026.

Re­tired Coast Guard Lt Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al says there is no need for con­cern fol­low­ing a re­cruit­ment ad­ver­tise­ment for the De­fence Force re­serves, as such prac­tices have been the norm in the mil­i­tary for some time.

A 32-year-old moth­er of two from Ch­agua­nas has been re­leased on bail af­ter plead­ing guilty to in­cit­ing vi­o­lence to­wards gov­ern­ment mem­bers in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia posts. 

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says Colm Im­bert is be­ing disin­gen­u­ous and pre­tend­ing to care about the “small man” in his crit­i­cism of the Fi­nance Bill, when in re­al­i­ty he is seek­ing to pro­tect his own in­ter­ests.

South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) chair­man Anil Go­sine says the au­thor­i­ty has be­gun re­cruit­ing 40 new nurs­es as part of plans to re­open the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal and to main­tain ex­tend­ed pa­tient ser­vices in out­ly­ing com­mu­ni­ties like Ce­dros and Moru­ga.

For­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says the Gov­ern­ment must ex­am­ine the dis­pos­al of an es­ti­mat­ed $80 mil­lion in ex­pired phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals.