As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for Car­ni­val 2026, head of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Richard Smith is urg­ing the pub­lic to be aware of their sur­round­ings and to drink re­spon­si­bly.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has told what he de­scribed as “paid blog­gers from Trinidad” to keep their “stink­ing opin­ion” and in­flu­ence in Beetham and Laven­tille, say­ing To­ba­go does not want it and will de­cide for it­self.Au­gus­tine made the com­ments while speak­ing at a TPP po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Mt St George on Sun­day night.

Venezuela’s op­po­si­tion sup­port­ers have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in pow­er — a dream that was ful­filled when the U.S. mil­i­tary whisked the au­thor­i­tar­i­an leader away. But while Maduro is in jail in New York on drug traf­fick­ing charges, the lead­ers of his re­pres­sive ad­min­is­tra­tion re­main in charge.

Wor­ried and frus­trat­ed af­ter be­ing slapped with a $19,000 tick­et for six traf­fic of­fences dur­ing a po­lice road­block on Sun­day night, a San Fer­nan­do co­conut ven­dor said he is now un­sure how he will pay the fines with­out “los­ing his liveli­hood.”