The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice says in­ter­mit­tent rain­fall, with a low chance of iso­lat­ed thun­der­storms, will con­tin­ue to af­fect Trinidad and, to a less­er ex­tent, To­ba­go as an Ad­verse Weath­er Alert at the yel­low lev­el re­mains in ef­fect.

A fresh dis­pute has erupt­ed be­tween the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al—de­spite both sides sign­ing off on a ten per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants on Tues­day.

While the Op­po­si­tion Leader is de­mand­ing that the Prime Min­is­ter dis­close who con­trols da­ta from the new­ly in­stalled mil­i­tary radar in To­ba­go, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has fired back, ac­cus­ing Pen­ne­lope Beck­les of at­tempt­ing to ex­pose sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­for­ma­tion to aid crim­i­nals linked to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to pay a ten per cent wage in­crease and rough­ly $3.8 bil­lion in back­pay to pub­lic ser­vants, econ­o­mists say the fi­nan­cial and macro­eco­nom­ic ef­fects must not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ed.

Af­ter re­veal­ing that the in­di­vid­ual charged with threat­en­ing his life on­line is em­ployed at a gov­ern­ment agency, Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne is call­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter to “cool it” and “mod­er­ate” her lan­guage, ar­gu­ing that her ag­gres­sive rhetoric is en­cour­ag­ing sup­port­ers to en­gage in tox­ic be­hav­iour on so­cial me­dia.

For­mer To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty mem­ber Cer­ti­ca Williams has re­ferred to the US mil­i­tary radar in­stal­la­tion at Crown Point as a “Christ­mas gift.”

That was the call from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Melanie Roberts-Radg­man, who said the re­cent pres­ence of a US mil­i­tary plane in To­ba­go was a trau­ma­tis­ing ex­pe­ri­ence for To­bag­o­ni­ans, who didn’t know what was go­ing on and re­main fear­ful to date.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine says next month’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion is a fight to keep the is­land “out of the hands of Sa­tan and his chil­dren.”

This is how for­mer Fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has de­scribed claus­es in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment's Fi­nance Bill 2025 which seek to place po­lit­i­cal ap­pointees on the Board of In­land Rev­enue, and an­oth­er clause to in­crease Gov­ern­ment's for­eign bor­row­ing lim­it by at least $15 bil­lion.

The fam­i­ly of 74-year-old Sookh­daya Ju­ry had been ex­cit­ed­ly prepar­ing to wel­come her to Cana­da for Christ­mas. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, they will now be trav­el­ling to Trinidad for her fu­ner­al af­ter she was mur­dered in her home.

For­mer head of the pub­lic ser­vice Reynold Coop­er and for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith say there is no law that would man­date that Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine be part of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC).

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help (NC­SH) Lim­it­ed have vis­it­ed the Laven­tille Road, San Juan home of Adan­na Winn, who has been liv­ing in a se­vere­ly di­lap­i­dat­ed struc­ture for years. How­ev­er, she was left dis­ap­point­ed af­ter be­ing de­nied a grant for re­fur­bish­ment works.