Po­lit­i­cal par­ties in To­ba­go have ex­pressed shock and con­cern over what they be­lieve may be a Unit­ed States “mil­i­tary base” op­er­at­ing along­side the con­tro­ver­sial US-in­stalled radar at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Two months af­ter say­ing Cari­com is not a re­li­able part­ner to Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ripped in­to the re­gion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion again, la­belling it dys­func­tion­al.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has launched what ap­pears to be a sting­ing re­buke of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar over com­ments wide­ly in­ter­pret­ed as en­dors­ing si­lence and def­er­ence to­ward the Unit­ed States in ex­change for pro­tec­tion and visa ac­cess.

Head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion Is­rael Khan, SC, be­lieves the re­port in­to the deaths of PNM MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and her two chil­dren should not be laid in Par­lia­ment but in­stead for­ward­ed to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to de­ter­mine whether a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the po­lice is war­rant­ed and if any in­di­vid­u­als were in­volved in a cov­er-up re­lat­ing to their deaths.

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.