More than 60 se­nior lead­ers from across the Caribbean di­as­po­ra and the Unit­ed States gath­ered last week­end for a closed-door pre­view of WHIS­TLE, a new lead­er­ship plat­form po­si­tion­ing it­self as a uni­fy­ing force for Caribbean in­flu­ence, eco­nom­ic pow­er and long-term lega­cy.

Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed and two firearms seized, dur­ing three sep­a­rate an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.

An Ari­ma man was duped of more than $25,000 in cash by a man who pre­tend­ed to be em­ployed at a pop­u­lar gro­cery and promised him an em­ploy­ee dis­count to se­cure a “good deal” on al­co­hol for the hol­i­days.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has claimed that all salaries and back pay have been paid on time.

Jew­ellery rob­bers beat and tied up a sales clerk dur­ing a rob­bery at a Princes Town jew­ellery shop on Fri­day.

A man who in­ter­vened in a fight be­tween two women was stabbed in the back and lat­er died in hos­pi­tal. He was iden­ti­fied as couri­er Stephan Roberts, 31, of Agua San­ta Av­enue, Diego Mar­tin.

The Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go has alert­ed em­ploy­ers and work­ers that Na­tion­al In­sur­ance con­tri­bu­tions will in­crease from 13.2% to 16.2%, from Jan­u­ary 5, 2026.

A 35-year-old so­ca artiste from St Vin­cent and the Grenadines is sched­uled to re­turn to court on Jan­u­ary 13 next year, on charges of al­leged­ly in­de­cent­ly as­sault­ing two un­der­age girls.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has called for ur­gent, col­lec­tive ac­tion to ad­dress the coun­try’s wors­en­ing for­eign ex­change cri­sis, warn­ing that in­ac­tion is no longer a vi­able op­tion for the na­tion­al econ­o­my.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says that if re-elect­ed on Jan­u­ary 12, his ad­min­is­tra­tion will take the is­sue of To­ba­go au­ton­o­my to an is­land-wide ref­er­en­dum ear­ly in the new year.

Amer­i­can rap­per Wiz Khal­i­fa was sen­tenced by a court in Ro­ma­nia on Thurs­day to nine months in jail for drug pos­ses­sion, more than a year af­ter he took part in a mu­sic fes­ti­val in the East­ern Eu­ro­pean coun­try.

The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment has tak­en of­fence at the de­ci­sion by the Unit­ed King­dom to is­sue a trav­el ad­vi­so­ry this week, warn­ing British trav­ellers of ter­ror­ist at­tacks on the Caribbean is­land.