The T&T Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) and the Avi­a­tion, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Al­lied Work­ers Union (ACAWU) have voiced grow­ing con­cern over job se­cu­ri­ty amid Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) route re­duc­tions and re­cent com­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar about turn­ing the air­line around with­in two years. The unions, how­ev­er, once again de­nied re­ports of im­pend­ing strike ac­tion.

Just over sev­en years af­ter it was first in­tro­duced, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has end­ed its “Caribbean Café” buy-on-board ser­vice as part of a broad­er ef­fort to slash op­er­at­ing costs.

Hous­ing con­struc­tion da­ta since April 28, 2025, show that while build­ing ac­tiv­i­ty has con­tin­ued across sev­er­al Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion sites, rel­a­tive­ly few new con­struc­tion con­tracts were award­ed last year, with much of the record­ed work fo­cused on com­plet­ing long-run­ning projects.

Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) chair­man Feeroz Khan says they in­tend to take a dif­fer­ent ap­proach to the con­struc­tion of new homes in the fu­ture.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has ar­rest­ed sev­en sus­pects and cleared 12 crim­i­nal cas­es dur­ing an on­go­ing an­ti crime ex­er­cise aimed at pro­tect­ing vul­ner­a­ble in­di­vid­u­als.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Dr Jack Austin Warn­er has praised the gov­ern­ment’s 100 per cent in­crease in traf­fic fines, but warned that road safe­ty ef­forts must al­so ad­dress pedes­tri­an be­hav­iour and the road­wor­thi­ness of gov­ern­ment ve­hi­cles.

Po­lice Fri­day said that two Brazil­ian gold min­ers died af­ter a min­ing pit col­lapsed at Chenapou, North Pakaraimas, in the spec­tac­u­lar Pakaraima Moun­tain Range in Re­gion 8, known for its dra­mat­ic table­top moun­tains.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der way in­to the theft of a prison of­fi­cer’s gun from his car at Cau­ra Riv­er on Thurs­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says that as of Fri­day morn­ing, not a sin­gle per­son had been charged for fire­works-re­lat­ed of­fences since the new law came in­to force.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says that as of Fri­day morn­ing, not a sin­gle per­son had been charged for fire­works-re­lat­ed of­fences since the new law came in­to force.

An Ari­ma man was shot and an­oth­er ar­rest­ed af­ter a shoot­ing with gel blasters end­ed with ac­tu­al gun­play on New Year’s Day, po­lice said.

Trinidad and To­ba­go record­ed eleven deaths be­tween De­cem­ber 31, 2025, and Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, in­clud­ing five homi­cides and six oth­er fa­tal in­ci­dents, as the coun­try en­tered the new year.