PNM po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis has ac­cused Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of be­ing un­aware of ma­jor de­vel­op­ments af­fect­ing To­ba­go, in­clud­ing the in­stal­la­tion of a radar at the is­land’s in­ter­na­tion­al air­port and the use of lo­cal air­ports for mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty.

Chief Sec­re­tary and To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty po­lit­i­cal leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine has dis­missed pub­lic con­cern over the use of To­ba­go’s air­ports by US mil­i­tary air­craft as fear mon­ger­ing, in­sist­ing the is­land re­mains neu­tral ahead of the Jan­u­ary 12 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion.

Sco­tia­bank T&T (Sco­tia­bank TT) post­ed a record in­come af­ter tax­a­tion of $696 mil­lion for the year end­ed Oc­to­ber 2025, mark­ing a 5.72 per cent in­crease or $38 mil­lion over the pre­vi­ous year.
Sco­tia, in its fourth quar­ter re­sults pub­lished yes­ter­day, said the strong per­for­mance trans­lat­ed in­to an im­proved re­turn on eq­ui­ty of 14.77 per cent and re­turn on as­sets of 2.19 per cent, up 26 and 1 ba­sis points, re­spec­tive­ly.
Sco­tia­bank de­clared a fourth-quar­ter div­i­dend of $0.90 per share, bring­ing the to­tal for fis­cal 2025 to $3 per share.
The earn­ings per share (EPS) rose to $3.95 cents, cou­pled with a div­i­dend yield of 6.26 per cent, the high­est in the Bank’s his­to­ry.

Even as some sec­tors of To­ba­go con­tin­ued to ex­press con­cern with the lat­est de­ci­sion by Gov­ern­ment to al­low the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­cess to this coun­try’s air­ports, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says he was not made aware of the de­ci­sion to grant such per­mis­sion pri­or to Mon­day’s me­dia re­lease from the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs.

Two Unit­ed States mil­i­tary trans­port air­craft ar­rived in Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day, mark­ing the first record­ed move­ments since the Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs an­nounced on Mon­day that it had grant­ed for­mal tran­sit per­mis­sion for US as­sets.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­pressed deep dis­ap­point­ment over the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to al­low the Unit­ed States to use Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­ports for lo­gis­ti­cal sup­port op­er­a­tions, de­scrib­ing the move as an at­tempt to make the coun­try a “vas­sal state.”

Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of In­te­ri­or, Jus­tice and Peace, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, has made it clear that the par­ty ful­ly sup­ports the de­ci­sion of the Bo­li­var­i­an gov­ern­ment to im­me­di­ate­ly ter­mi­nate any con­tract or ne­go­ti­a­tion that in­volves the sup­ply of gas to T&T.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says he be­lieves the in­ves­tiga­tive re­port in­to the dead­ly fire that took the life of MP Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian and two of her chil­dren last De­cem­ber was shield­ing those re­spon­si­ble, but le­gal ad­vice led to the de­ci­sion not to re­lease it pub­licly.

Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day re­mained mum on whether she will move to dis­ci­pline Ari­ma May­or Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj, fol­low­ing his de­ci­sion to at­tend last Sat­ur­day’s Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) fundrais­er Christ­mas din­ner.

Re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers con­tin­ue to ex­press dis­ap­point­ment and frus­tra­tion, as the pos­si­bil­i­ty for health­care em­ploy­ees to be in­clud­ed among those re­ceiv­ing back­pay, or a por­tion of it, be­fore Christ­mas de­creas­es.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy Ernesto Ke­sar has con­firmed that charges have been laid un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act in re­la­tion to the col­lapse of Rig 110.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne wants cit­i­zens and tourists to know the city is open and safe this Christ­mas sea­son, with a 24/7 po­lice pres­ence on In­de­pen­dence Square and its en­vi­rons.