Pope Leo XIV on Thurs­day made his most im­por­tant U.S. ap­point­ment to date, nam­ing a fel­low Chicagoan as the next arch­bish­op of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. arch­dio­ce­ses as it nav­i­gates re­la­tions with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion and its im­mi­gra­tion crack­down.

A wide-rang­ing clam­p­down on il­le­gal gam­bling, tax eva­sion, smug­gled al­co­hol and firearms un­fold­ed across Trinidad and To­ba­go this week, with po­lice seiz­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in un­paid gam­ing tax­es, con­tra­band liquor and cig­a­rettes, il­le­gal weapons and large quan­ti­ties of drugs.

A 55-year-old man died af­ter be­ing elec­tro­cut­ed while work­ing on a rooftop in Plum Mi­tan on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

Four sol­diers have been con­fined to Camp La Ro­main as en­quiries con­tin­ue in­to the rob­bery of two men at Build­ing 12, Mal­oney Gar­dens, last Mon­day night.

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has is­sued a di­rect warn­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go of au­tho­ris­ing Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft to use lo­cal air­ports and sug­gest­ing Venezuela would re­spond if its ter­ri­to­ry or peo­ple were harmed.

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.