Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA), Dr Denise Tsoiafatt An­gus has con­firmed that the par­ty is in the process of chang­ing its po­ten­tial can­di­date for Belle Gar­den/Glam­or­gan, af­ter its pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced can­di­date, Tevin Duke, was sen­tenced to three months and 24 days in prison.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress has an­nounced the pass­ing of for­mer Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Dr Daphne Phillips at age 82. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, col­leagues, and as­so­ciates of Dr Phillips.

From De­cem­ber 1, 2025, the pub­lic has round-the-clock ac­cess to Gen­er­al Prac­tice ser­vices at the St Joseph En­hanced Health Cen­tre. The fa­cil­i­ty now op­er­ates 24 hours a day, sev­en days a week, in­clud­ing week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised a se­ries of ques­tions for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing the in­stal­la­tion of a radar sys­tem in To­ba­go. She made the com­ments while speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence to­day.

In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Mar­lene Attzs has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s Home In­va­sion Bill, call­ing it the “pri­vati­sa­tion of vi­o­lence” and “the out­sourc­ing of the state’s most sa­cred du­ty to thou­sands of fright­ened, un­trained, un­sup­port­ed in­di­vid­u­als”.

Sint Maarten-based air­line Winair has an­nounced in­ten­tions to be­gin fly­ing non-stop to Trinidad on Feb­ru­ary 1. In a me­dia re­lease, the air­line says it will op­er­ate flights be­tween Princess Ju­liana In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (SXM) and Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (POS) on Wednes­days and Sun­days. The air­line will use its ATR 42-500/600 fleet on the route, which re­mains sub­ject to ap­proval by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty.

As geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions es­ca­late across the Caribbean, busi­ness lead­ers are urg­ing vig­i­lance, with a call for com­pa­nies and em­ploy­ees to stay alert and proac­tive in the months ahead. The mes­sage came from Caribbean Safe­ty Prod­ucts Lim­it­ed CEO Shaun Manocha, who ad­dressed staff dur­ing the com­pa­ny’s an­nu­al Christ­mas din­ner and awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Roy­al Ho­tel in San Fer­nan­do.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty, TPP, po­lit­i­cal 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,” as he asked sup­port­ers to treat Jan­u­ary 12 as the most de­ci­sive vote in mod­ern To­ba­go his­to­ry.

A woman who went to check on her moth­er yes­ter­day found her dy­ing with her throat slit at the fam­i­ly’s Gas­par­il­lo home.

Pub­lic Ser­vices’ As­so­ci­a­tion’s (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas has agreed that pub­lic ser­vants will take a part pay­ment of the back­pay Gov­ern­ment will owe them be­fore the end of the year.

Hours af­ter the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) suc­cess­ful­ly signed off on a 10 per cent wage hike for pub­lic ser­vants, sev­er­al labour move­ments urged the Gov­ern­ment to hold sim­i­lar con­sul­ta­tions with them.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he does not sup­port “out­siders” mak­ing de­ci­sions for To­ba­go and be­lieves the is­land must have a greater say in mat­ters that af­fect it.