The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) and Glob­al Com­pli­ance Ser­vice (GCS-USA) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing to pro­vide TTMA mem­bers ac­cess to sub­sidised in­ter­na­tion­al ISO cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­grams.

A po­lice con­sta­ble and a civil­ian have been charged with firearm re­lat­ed of­fences fol­low­ing their ar­rest in the Ca­roni dis­trict.

The Court of Ap­peal has pro­vid­ed guid­ance on cir­cum­stances in which lit­i­gants chal­leng­ing de­ci­sions by pub­lic bod­ies may re­cov­er their le­gal costs even when they with­draw their claims at a pre­lim­i­nary stage. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, North­ern Di­vi­sion North, host­ed its first Christ­mas out­reach event “Car­ols and Cans” on Tues­day, as part of com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment ac­tiv­i­ties.

Res­i­dents of Rich Plain Road in Diego Mar­tin may ex­pe­ri­ence brief re­lief this Christ­mas sea­son, as the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion has tem­porar­i­ly patched sev­er­al pot­holes along the road­way. CNC3 News ob­served the work be­ing car­ried out ear­li­er this morn­ing.

A Paris la­bor court ruled that Paris Saint-Ger­main must pay more than 60 mil­lion eu­ros ($70 mil­lion) to Kylian Mbap­pé in a dis­pute over un­paid wages and bonus­es linked to the end of the France su­per­star’s con­tract in 2024.

En­er­gy Min­is­ters met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the U.S. Em­bassy and Exxon­Mo­bil to re­ceive up­dates on op­er­a­tions linked to the ul­tra-deep block TTUD-1.

For­mer For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne has raised con­cerns about the use of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­ports by Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft, say­ing the fa­cil­i­ties are in­tend­ed for civil­ian op­er­a­tions.

The Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of Venezuela’s rul­ing Unit­ed So­cial­ist Par­ty of Venezuela (PSUV), Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has made it clear that the par­ty ful­ly sup­ports the de­ci­sion of the Bo­li­var­i­an Gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly ter­mi­nate any con­tract or ne­go­ti­a­tion that in­volves the sup­ply of gas to T&T.

A small plane crashed in cen­tral Mex­i­co while try­ing to make an emer­gency land­ing Mon­day, killing at least sev­en peo­ple, Mex­i­co State Civ­il Pro­tec­tion Co­or­di­na­tor Adrián Hernán­dez said.

The Gov­ern­ment has ap­proved the use of lo­cal air­ports by Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft to con­duct what it de­scribes as “lo­gis­ti­cal ac­tiv­i­ties,” a de­ci­sion that has sparked strong crit­i­cism from the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), which claims it ce­ments the coun­try’s sta­tus as a “satel­lite state” of the US.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is re­ject­ing Venezuela’s claims that T&T was com­plic­it in the seizure of an oil ves­sel trans­port­ing Venezuela’s oil last week and he is ask­ing its gov­ern­ment to di­rect all their com­plaints to the US gov­ern­ment.