Movi­eTowne own­er Derek Chin has urged the pub­lic to ex­er­cise cau­tion fol­low­ing a rob­bery out­side PriceS­mart yes­ter­day, which he said ex­posed gaps in the store’s se­cu­ri­ty.

The price of sor­rel re­mains cheap­er than last year in the lead-up to Christ­mas, but ven­dors ex­pect it to rise to $20 per pound as a na­tion­al short­age con­tin­ues to de­vel­op.

An in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Point Fortin has re­sult­ed in the seizure of an es­ti­mat­ed TT$56 mil­lion worth of cannabis – the sec­ond ma­jor drug bust by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in the space of 24 hours.

Re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al cli­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives met in Grena­da on De­cem­ber 4th for the third Ger­man-Caribbean Cli­mate Talks, where par­tic­i­pants ex­am­ined the out­comes of COP30 and out­lined steps need­ed to ad­vance Caribbean re­silience. The meet­ing took place at the Radis­son Ho­tel in Grand Anse and in­clud­ed am­bas­sadors, tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials, youth ad­vo­cates, and civ­il so­ci­ety lead­ers. The talks fol­lowed con­tin­ued re­cov­ery ef­forts in Grena­da af­ter Hur­ri­cane Beryl in 2024.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that she met of­fi­cials of the U.S. Em­bassy yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the more than $171 mil­lion drug bust in the Ca­roni Swamp.

Trinidad and To­ba­go se­cured 2nd place in the Se­nior Di­vi­sion of the in­ter­na­tion­al NASEF Farm­craft 2025 Glob­al Com­pe­ti­tion, mark­ing the coun­try’s high­est fin­ish in the event. The com­pe­ti­tion was host­ed by the Net­work of Aca­d­e­m­ic and Scholas­tic Es­ports Fed­er­a­tions and used the Minecraft Ed­u­ca­tion plat­form to in­te­grate agri­cul­ture, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy.

The World Food Pro­gramme (WFP) says more than a month af­ter Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa slammed the Caribbean, dev­as­tat­ed com­mu­ni­ties still re­quire as­sis­tance.

Fire­One Fire­works has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s move to in­tro­duce the Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, say­ing the pro­posed reg­u­la­tions align with its long-stand­ing fo­cus on pub­lic safe­ty and re­spon­si­ble cel­e­bra­tions.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go has ap­point­ed Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor Ke­ston How­ell as its new head. He re­places Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor Kel­ly Bute-Seaton, who held the post for the past 10 years.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day presided over the pro­mo­tion of Cap­tain Akhen­aton Isaac, who has ad­vanced to the rank of Cap­tain and Com­man­der of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard.

Sev­er­al em­ploy­ees of Guardian Me­dia were recog­nised yes­ter­day for their long and out­stand­ing ser­vice across var­i­ous de­part­ments. Staff mem­bers mark­ing five, ten, 15, and 20 years of ser­vice were ho­n­oured for their ded­i­ca­tion and con­tri­bu­tion to the com­pa­ny.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) made a sig­nif­i­cant dent in the drug trade, af­ter re­cov­er­ing 1,560 kilo­grammes of “creepy mar­i­jua­na” with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $171,205,320 in the Ca­roni Swamp on Wednes­day night.