The Venezue­lan Na­tion­al As­sem­bly (Par­lia­ment) yes­ter­day unan­i­mous­ly ap­proved a de­c­la­ra­tion in re­pu­di­a­tion of US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s “grotesque threats,” as they con­sti­tute an un­ac­cept­able vi­o­la­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al law against the sov­er­eign­ty of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne and Do­mini­ca Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit have reached out to the Unit­ed States to clar­i­fy its up­com­ing visa ban an­nounced on na­tion­als of their re­spec­tive coun­tries, and to have this re­moved.

As Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump es­ca­lat­ed pres­sure on Venezuela by an­nounc­ing a ban on sanc­tioned oil tankers en­ter­ing and leav­ing the South Amer­i­can na­tion, some Venezue­lan mi­grants in T&T say they re­main large­ly un­fazed.

In light of height­ened re­gion­al ten­sions in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has as­sured To­bag­o­ni­ans that the radar in­stal­la­tion at ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port is harm­less — though he ad­mit­ted he does not know key de­tails about its op­er­a­tion.

US an­ti-drug and hu­man-traf­fick­ing se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures may be help­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go curb crime, but tourism da­ta sug­gests To­ba­go is al­ready pay­ing the price.

Prime Min­is­ter and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar paid trib­ute to Dr Daphne Collins Phillips-Gaskin dur­ing her fu­ner­al yes­ter­day, de­scrib­ing her as a de­vot­ed pub­lic ser­vant and schol­ar.

For­mer Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly and two of his col­leagues have won their ap­peal chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion by the Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee of the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) to find them guilty of pro­fes­sion­al mis­con­duct and rep­ri­mand them. 

A so­cial ac­tivist has won his law­suits against the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs and the Chil­dren's Life Fund Au­thor­i­ty over their fail­ure to pub­lish an­nu­al re­ports be­tween 2016 and 2021 as re­quired un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA).

The Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Act, 2025, is now law, af­ter Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo as­sent­ed to the leg­is­la­tion, ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John has as­sured there will be no in­ter­rup­tion in car­go ser­vice to To­ba­go when the MV Cabo Star leaves the in­ter-is­land seabridge in Jan­u­ary.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Earl Elie is warn­ing po­lit­i­cal par­ties and their sup­port­ers to con­trol loud mu­sic and be­hav­iour dur­ing the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion sea­son, say­ing ex­ces­sive noise and con­fronta­tion can be­come of­fences.

Even though the State of Emer­gency (SoE) is due to come to an end on Feb­ru­ary 1, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has con­tin­ued to is­sue Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) for al­leged gang lead­ers, gang mem­bers and their as­so­ciates.