Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­sist­ed that maxi taxi op­er­a­tors have no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for in­creas­ing fares, de­spite the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to dou­ble the toll for use of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has crit­i­cised what she de­scribed as a move by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to reg­u­larise squat­ters who have il­le­gal­ly oc­cu­pied State-fund­ed hous­ing units, call­ing it a con­tra­dic­tion of the Gov­ern­ment’s po­si­tion on law­less­ness.

Rel­a­tives and col­leagues of kid­napped fire­fight­er Bruce Leza­ma had their worst fears re­alised yes­ter­day af­ter a body be­lieved to be his was spot­ted down a precipice along the Blan­chisseuse Road, Ari­ma.

“No par­ent should have to bury their child,” said a griev­ing Nathaniel Prime, the fa­ther of prison of­fi­cer Ker­ron Prime, who was among two peo­ple killed in a mul­ti-car col­li­sion in Cou­va on Mon­day night.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee says any move to reg­u­larise peo­ple squat­ting at Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) units must first go be­fore the Cab­i­net, fol­low­ing com­ments by HDC chair­man Feeroz Khan.

Blink­ing back tears as he rubbed his red-rimmed eyes and launched in­to the rasta­far­i­an an­them Gideon Boot by Richie Spice, Omar McIn­tyre yes­ter­day mourned, “It ain’t feel good...some­body is miss­ing.”

The in­ter-is­land fer­ry APT James is ex­pect­ed to re­turn to ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 3, 2026, fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of its manda­to­ry five-year dry dock­ing, ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has strong­ly de­nied claims that the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is seek­ing to hand over No Man’s Land to a pri­vate de­vel­op­er, a move that would re­sult in ven­dors be­ing forced to va­cate the area.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­ject­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s claim that the ad­di­tion­al fines and fees set to take ef­fect in the new year were ful­ly out­lined in the bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion and the Fi­nance Bill.

De­spite de­nials from Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine that No Man’s Land has been sold or ear­marked for trans­fer, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis is in­sist­ing that ques­tions re­main about the prop­er­ty and the man­age­ment of To­ba­go’s as­sets.

Ad­vo­cates and mem­bers of the mi­grant com­mu­ni­ty have wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pan­sion of the Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work, which al­lows for all un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants to reg­is­ter and legal­ly live and work in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Threats made against Trinidad and To­ba­go by Venezuela’s Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion must be treat­ed with ur­gency and cau­tion, ac­cord­ing to Yesina Gon­za­lez, so­cial ac­tivist and spokesper­son for the Venezue­lan com­mu­ni­ty in T&T.