Dionne Ovid’s house­hold is all about tra­di­tion, es­pe­cial­ly when it comes to Christ­mas good­ies. So much so that the fam­i­ly’s Ponche de Crème recipe has ex­tend­ed its tra­di­tion­al reach to Ovid’s med­ical team at the San­gre Grande hos­pi­tal, where she works as a crit­i­cal care nurse.

A 29-year-old man was shot and killed dur­ing a rob­bery in the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day dur­ing an in­ci­dent in Chi­nese Vil­lage, La Brea.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is be­ing ac­cused of dis­re­spect­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans af­ter she dis­missed com­ments made by Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, who said that had the de­ci­sion rest­ed with him, he would have re­ject­ed the in­stal­la­tion of the mil­i­tary radar and de­nied Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft ac­cess to To­ba­go’s air­ports.

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.