Amidst the grief of his sib­ling’s mur­der, Per­ry Ben­gochea, the old­er broth­er of slain fire­man Bruce Leza­ma, said he does not hate his broth­er’s killers.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion has warned that teach­ers may not re­ceive their new salaries in Jan­u­ary 2026, de­spite ear­li­er as­sur­ances from the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer.

With the 36th edi­tion of the St James Chil­dren’s Car­ni­val just weeks away, or­gan­is­ers say the pop­u­lar ju­nior mas pa­rade is at risk as they ap­peal for ad­di­tion­al fund­ing. The event is card­ed for Sun­day Feb­ru­ary 8, 2026, along the West­ern Main Road, St James, and is ex­pect­ed to at­tract hun­dreds of young mas­quer­aders and large crowds of spec­ta­tors.

A 35-year-old sus­pect want­ed in con­nec­tion with sev­er­al crimes was shot by po­lice dur­ing his ar­rest in Point Fortin on Wednes­day.

For­mer PNM sen­a­tor Lau­rence His­lop has warned To­bag­o­ni­ans strict en­force­ment of new traf­fic fines will be­gin im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the Jan­u­ary 12 THA elec­tion, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of hold­ing back tick­et­ing on the is­land un­til vot­ing ends.

Clara­belle Tardieu has been re­leased af­ter more than a month in cap­tiv­i­ty fol­low­ing her ab­duc­tion from Monos Is­land.

Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our says Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to im­pose stiffer road traf­fic fines was dri­ven by ev­i­dence un­cov­ered af­ter tak­ing of­fice, in­sist­ing the scale of law­less­ness on the na­tion’s roads was far worse than what was un­der­stood dur­ing the elec­tion cam­paign.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­fend­ed the surge of traf­fic tick­ets is­sued in re­cent days but says there will be no re­duc­tion in fines. How­ev­er, she said yes­ter­day that her Gov­ern­ment is prepar­ing to in­tro­duce a sys­tem to give dri­vers time to fix ve­hi­cle de­fects be­fore penal­ties take ef­fect.

For a third con­sec­u­tive day, long lines formed out­side Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion of­fices across the coun­try, as frus­trat­ed dri­vers at­tempt­ed to reg­is­ter, in­spect, or trans­fer their ve­hi­cles be­fore fac­ing new­ly in­creased traf­fic fines.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he would “mash up” the radar in To­ba­go him­self if he had in­for­ma­tion it was used to as­sist the Unit­ed States in at­tack­ing Venezuela and oust­ing Nico­las Maduro.

In a strate­gic move to en­sure en­er­gy sta­bil­i­ty, Venezuela oil com­pa­ny Petróleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA), yes­ter­day con­firmed it is ad­vanc­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Unit­ed States for the sale of its oil.

With mo­torists and com­muters in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed by large-scale traf­fic en­force­ment ex­er­cis­es dur­ing peak hours, Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke has re­vealed plans to au­to­mate traf­fic en­force­ment us­ing cam­era-based sys­tems de­signed to catch law-break­ing dri­vers.