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.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is coun­ter­ing ac­cu­sa­tions that he over­stat­ed the role of To­ba­go’s new radar sys­tem, say­ing his re­marks were tak­en out of con­text by “so-called ex­perts.”

An era in po­lit­i­cal his­to­ry end­ed yes­ter­day with the pass­ing of long­stand­ing leg­end Fer­di­nand “Fer­die” Fer­reira, whose death plunged the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­to mourn­ing and trig­gered trib­utes from oth­er par­ties.

The Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, Khadi­jah Ameen, says con­trary to so­cial me­dia re­ports on a leaked Cab­i­net Note, the new Na­tion­al Pro­gramme for the Up­keep of Pub­lic Spaces is not a CEPEP re­place­ment.

Health work­ers, who Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo say will not re­ceive back­pay this month, are threat­en­ing to “down tools” and per­form on­ly the “bare min­i­mum” from the week of Christ­mas in­to the new year.

As ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela con­tin­ue, Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is ac­cus­ing both T&T and Guyana of al­low­ing them­selves to be used by the Amer­i­cans to launch an at­tack against Venezuela.

Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin yes­ter­day reaf­firmed his sup­port for Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, one day af­ter the Unit­ed States’ seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

Three po­lice of­fi­cers charged with mul­ti­ple counts of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice each re­ceived bail with sure­ty set at $250,000, to cov­er all charges, when they ap­peared be­fore Jus­tice of the Peace Steven Young last Fri­day (De­cem­ber 5).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment says it is ful­ly co­op­er­at­ing with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in a probe in­to a re­port that in­di­vid­u­als in mil­i­tary wear robbed two peo­ple in Mal­oney.

Sev­en Tri­nis have been placed on the US “Worst of the Worst” list for crimes that in­clude rape and drug pos­ses­sion, af­ter be­ing held by Unit­ed States Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE).

So­cial ac­tivist Abeo Jack­son is de­scrib­ing the lat­est re­quire­ment when ap­ply­ing for a Unit­ed States visa as a form of black­mail.