The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has an­nounced a mas­sive pack­age of arms sales to Tai­wan val­ued at more than $10 bil­lion that in­cludes medi­um-range mis­siles, how­itzers and drones, draw­ing an an­gry re­sponse from Chi­na.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA), Idi Stu­art, has called for wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for nurs­es to be con­clud­ed by Jan­u­ary or Feb­ru­ary 2026, de­scrib­ing the time­line as “non-ne­go­tiable.”

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is mov­ing to ad­dress the is­sue in­volv­ing Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj, which is cur­rent­ly be­ing ex­am­ined by se­nior par­ty of­fi­cials.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Cab­i­net will meet to con­sid­er whether the in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to the deaths of for­mer MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and her two chil­dren should be laid in Par­lia­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made it clear that Trinidad and To­ba­go is not in­volved in the block­ade or­dered by Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump tar­get­ing all “sanc­tioned oil tankers” en­ter­ing Venezuela.

Kid­napped busi­ness­man Der­rick “Stones” Tardieu was re­leased by his ab­duc­tors in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day. How­ev­er, the fate of his wife Clari­bel re­mained un­known up to last night and it was be­lieved she was still in the hands of the men who ab­duct­ed the cou­ple.

WASH­ING­TON — House Re­pub­li­cans re­ject­ed a pair of De­mo­c­ra­t­ic-backed res­o­lu­tions yes­ter­day that would have put a check on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s pow­er to use mil­i­tary force against drug car­tels and the na­tion of Venezuela.

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.