Glob­al rat­ing agency S&P has down­grad­ed its long-term is­suer cred­it and is­sue-lev­el rat­ings on Con­sol­i­dat­ed En­er­gy Ltd (CEL), a sub­sidiary of the largest op­er­a­tor on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, from B to ‘CCC+’, plac­ing the com­pa­ny deep­er in­to junk-bond sta­tus.

The Gov­ern­ment has firm­ly dis­missed crit­i­cism over its move to dou­ble the fines for dozens of traf­fic of­fences from Jan­u­ary next year.

Po­lice are prob­ing a mur­der and shoot­ing which oc­curred along the busy Char­lotte Street in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day evening.

The Gov­ern­ment has dou­bled sev­er­al Cus­toms fees, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, through a le­gal no­tice pub­lished on Christ­mas Day.

Pres­i­dent of the Route Two Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has warned that maxi taxi op­er­a­tors are prepar­ing for strong re­sis­tance to re­cent changes in traf­fic reg­u­la­tions and in­creas­es in bus route fees, which he says were im­ple­ment­ed with­out con­sul­ta­tion or prop­er jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.

In a bold move, the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is look­ing to reg­u­larise squat­ters who have tak­en up res­i­dence in some of its un­oc­cu­pied prop­er­ties.

Chair­man of Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Ltd (PFTC), Nyree Al­fon­so, is on a re­cruit­ment dri­ve for six man­agers.

From the roar­ing vrooms of en­gines to the scream­ing screech­es of brakes bring­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of pounds of alu­mini­um al­loy to a halt, peo­ple liv­ing near the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port have grown ac­cus­tomed to the many ear-split­ting sounds emit­ted by planes.

Ja­maican Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness has called on Caribbean na­tions to act with clar­i­ty and co­he­sion amid a rapid­ly shift­ing in­ter­na­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment.

A Cus­toms clerk and a man ac­cused of want­i­ng to kill po­lice of­fi­cers are among four peo­ple held on Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders gazetted on Christ­mas Day.

A Cou­va man was ar­rest­ed on Box­ing Day af­ter curs­ing and as­sault­ing an of­fi­cer who came to his home to in­ves­ti­gate a re­port­ed dis­tur­bance by his wife.

A Chi­nese busi­ness­man was robbed of $50,000 cash in Curepe on Christ­mas night, af­ter a man broke his car win­dow and snatched two bags from the front seat be­fore run­ning off.