U.S. Em­bassy per­son­nel from the Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion Vet­ted Unit, sup­port­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Spe­cial In­ves­tiga­tive Unit and the Transna­tion­al Or­gan­ised Crime Unit, ex­e­cut­ed three Pro­vi­sion­al Ar­rest War­rants on De­cem­ber 30, 2025, for Trinidad cit­i­zens Rafael Joseph, Michael Mc­Sween and Clevon Per­sad. All three face charges in the East­ern Dis­trict of New York for con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine in­to the Unit­ed States and firearms of­fences stem­ming from a 2024 DEA in­ves­ti­ga­tion sup­port­ed by the DEA New York Field Di­vi­sion.

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go says it has se­cured a new roll-on/roll-off pas­sen­ger and car­go ves­sel, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, to re­place the MV Cabo Star when its lease ex­pires on Jan­u­ary 12, 2026.

Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio and oth­er top of­fi­cials briefed lead­ers in Con­gress late Mon­day on the strik­ing mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion in Venezuela amid mount­ing con­cerns that Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is em­bark­ing on a new era of U.S. ex­pan­sion­ism with­out con­sul­ta­tion with law­mak­ers or a clear vi­sion for run­ning the South Amer­i­can coun­try.

The On­line Gam­ing Agents As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­quest­ed an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board of avoid­ing en­gage­ment while mil­lions of dol­lars in state rev­enue are lost each week.