Amid height­ened se­cu­ri­ty alert, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with Unit­ed States Em­bassy of­fi­cials on Sat­ur­day night.

Protest­ing the di­rec­tion of the coun­try un­der Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, peo­ple gath­ered Sat­ur­day in the na­tion’s cap­i­tal and com­mu­ni­ties across the U.S. for “ No Kings ” demon­stra­tions — what the pres­i­dent’s Re­pub­li­can Par­ty is call­ing “Hate Amer­i­ca” ral­lies.

The wider Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) has re­it­er­at­ed its po­si­tion that the Caribbean must re­main a ‘zone of peace’.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­mained most­ly silent fol­low­ing a U.S. Em­bassy se­cu­ri­ty alert to­day ad­vis­ing cit­i­zens to avoid all U.S. gov­ern­ment fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go through the hol­i­day week­end due to a “height­ened state of alert”.

The gov­ern­ment re­mains most­ly silent as the na­tion waits for clar­i­ty fol­low­ing a cryp­tic mes­sage from the U.S. Em­bassy to­day, ad­vis­ing cit­i­zens to avoid all U.S. Gov­ern­ment fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go through the hol­i­day week­end due to a “height­ened state of alert”.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin said the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is on high alert fol­low­ing a re­cent se­cu­ri­ty ad­vi­so­ry.

The U.S. Em­bassy in Trinidad and To­ba­go has urged its cit­i­zens to avoid all U.S. Gov­ern­ment fa­cil­i­ties across the coun­try dur­ing the hol­i­day week­end due to a height­ened state of alert.

Cunu­pia po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of more than $21,000 worth of seafood from a de­liv­ery truck on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said 39-year-old Andy Gor­mandy was dri­ving his dark grey Hyundai Tuc­son along En­ter­prise Street, near the En­ter­prise Hin­du Pri­ma­ry School, at around 10:30 pm, when a gold Nis­san Almera trav­el­ling ahead stopped and blocked his path.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ny Beck­les yes­ter­day called on the Prime Min­is­ter to say what she promised in ex­change for the six-month pro­vi­sion­al OFAC li­cence from the Unit­ed States for the Drag­on gas project.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the 2026 Bud­get al­lo­ca­tion to the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) is not the high­est per­cent­age it has ever re­ceived. She has al­so slammed the dras­tic re­duc­tion of an­nu­al al­lo­ca­tions for PNM-con­trolled cor­po­ra­tions.

To­ba­go bar and restau­rant own­ers are warn­ing that the sud­den in­crease in al­co­hol prices fol­low­ing Mon­day’s Na­tion­al Bud­get could af­fect spend­ing dur­ing next week­end’s To­ba­go Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions, with some al­ready see­ing signs that cus­tomers may switch to cheap­er drink op­tions.