Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis has claimed that To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) can­di­date Ricky Joe­field pre­vi­ous­ly ben­e­fit­ed from near­ly $10 mil­lion in con­tracts un­der a PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion, de­spite now con­test­ing the elec­tion un­der the TPP ban­ner.

To­ba­go is un­der po­lit­i­cal spot­light as 2026 be­gins, with the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions set for Jan­u­ary 12—a cru­cial one for all po­lit­i­cal sides.

The body found along the Ari­ma–Blan­chisseuse Road has been iden­ti­fied as miss­ing 47-year-old Fire Of­fi­cer Bruce Leza­ma.

A prison of­fi­cer and a car wash op­er­a­tor were killed in an ac­ci­dent along the Mc Bean stretch of the South­ern Main Road in Cou­va last evening.

The U.S. im­posed sanc­tions on 10 peo­ple and firms from Iran and Venezuela over al­leged­ly con­tribut­ing to Iran’s drone trade and bal­lis­tics pro­gram which the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion says threat­ens the U.S. and its al­lies in the Mid­dle East.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has de­nied claims that the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly is seek­ing to hand over No Man’s Land to a pri­vate de­vel­op­er, a move that would force ven­dors to leave the area.

Eight-year-old Gideon Smart was crushed to death yes­ter­day, af­ter a run­away truck crashed in­to his fam­i­ly’s home at Sa­van­nah Road, Arou­ca.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made it clear that Trinidad and To­ba­go is not part of any mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions against Venezuela and is di­rect­ing all ques­tions about what ap­pears to be the Unit­ed States’ first strike on Venezue­lan soil to the US Em­bassy.

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties have tak­en strong ex­cep­tion to the Prime Min­is­ter de­scrib­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go as a “law­less dump”.

Un­de­terred by sharp crit­i­cism from po­lit­i­cal ri­vals, the Prime Min­is­ter has dou­bled down on her de­scrip­tion of the coun­try as a “law­less dump”, in­sist­ing the re­mark was in­tend­ed to con­front harsh re­al­i­ties and ul­ti­mate­ly up­lift the na­tion.

There are, at this time, of­fi­cial­ly five pub­lic hol­i­days in 2026 that fall on ei­ther a Fri­day or a Mon­day, cre­at­ing a pe­ri­od most Trin­bag­o­ni­ans look for­ward to—long week­ends.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says the in­tro­duc­tion of an in­crease in fines for traf­fic of­fences is not in­tend­ed to pun­ish dri­vers for sim­ply “ex­ist­ing”, in­sist­ing it is part of the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to clamp down on er­rant dri­vers on a sus­tained ba­sis.