A fire has left a Princes Town fam­i­ly home­less and stripped of their on­ly source of in­come just days be­fore the new year, forc­ing them to face 2026 with noth­ing but un­cer­tain­ty and heart­break.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­moved sev­er­al con­struc­tion-re­lat­ed ma­te­ri­als from the Open Gen­er­al Li­cence for ex­ports, tight­en­ing con­trols from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The gov­ern­ment has dou­bled the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) toll, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, through a Christ­mas Day le­gal no­tice.

The gov­ern­ment has qui­et­ly dou­bled sev­er­al cus­toms fees, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, through a le­gal no­tice pub­lished on Christ­mas Day.

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

As he pass­es the ba­ton of CARI­COM Chair­man­ship, Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness has called on Caribbean na­tions to act with clar­i­ty and co­he­sion amid a rapid­ly shift­ing in­ter­na­tion­al en­vi­ron­ment.

Nu­trien’s shut­down of its am­mo­nia and urea op­er­a­tions in Trinidad has be­come a turn­ing point in the com­pa­ny’s re­treat from ni­tro­gen pro­duc­tion, as it sells off over­seas as­sets and redi­rects cap­i­tal to­ward potash, ac­cord­ing to re­port­ing pub­lished to­day by the Saska­toon StarPhoenix.

Even though not all po­lit­i­cal par­ties have signed the Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct, the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour says all can­di­dates and par­ties con­test­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions are, so far, be­hav­ing in keep­ing with its prin­ci­ples.

The Gov­ern­ment has moved to dou­ble most traf­fic fines un­der the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act, with the in­creas­es tak­ing ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

With New Year’s Day less than a week away, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs Kennedy Swarats­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic to be con­sid­er­ate in their use of fire­works for Old Year’s Night cel­e­bra­tions by obey­ing the law.

The num­ber of road fa­tal­i­ties has risen to 108 for the year, fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Pi­ar­co and Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of a Bel­mont woman af­ter she re­port­ed­ly fell from a precipice be­hind her house.