San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Louis Par­ris is fac­ing po­ten­tial le­gal ac­tion from lo­cal broad­cast­er Ian Al­leyne over a con­tro­ver­sial Face­book post.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has again sig­nalled its sup­port for the Unit­ed States fol­low­ing a spe­cial meet­ing of the Per­ma­nent Coun­cil of the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), as re­gion­al ten­sions in­ten­si­fy over the ar­rest of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne has urged Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to clear­ly out­line Trinidad and To­ba­go’s for­eign pol­i­cy and ap­proach to re­la­tions with the cur­rent Del­cy Ro­driguez ad­min­is­tra­tion in neigh­bour­ing Venezuela. So far, the Gov­ern­ment has re­mained silent on its po­si­tion.

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has as­sured the pub­lic that the coun­try re­mains sta­ble af­ter shoot­ing erupt­ed near Mi­raflo­res Palace in Cara­cas on Mon­day night.

With To­ba­go head­ing to the polls on Mon­day, at­ten­tion is on how po­lit­i­cal par­ties are con­cen­trat­ing re­sources and rhetoric on a hand­ful of mar­gin­al elec­toral dis­tricts that could ul­ti­mate­ly de­cide con­trol of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris has dared sit­ting In­fra­struc­ture Sec­re­tary Trevor James to present any ev­i­dence he claims to have re­gard­ing an al­leged mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar road con­struc­tion scan­dal to the po­lice, in­sist­ing that threats of jail time “mean noth­ing.”

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go has con­firmed that a tem­po­rary car­go ves­sel has been se­cured and is en route to the coun­try to main­tain the in­ter-is­land car­go sea bridge.

Since Sun­day night, the Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (SWM­COL) has been work­ing to con­tain and man­age a fire at the Beetham Land­fill.

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith and re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah have de­scribed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) as a vi­able and ef­fec­tive op­tion once the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends, warn­ing that crime could surge if emer­gency pow­ers are lift­ed with­out prop­er con­tin­gency plan­ning.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee said sev­er­al hous­ing projects are near­ing com­ple­tion and will be hand­ed over to ap­pli­cants in the first quar­ter of 2026.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju of the Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain, has been ap­point­ed Chap­lain of His Ho­li­ness by Pope Leo XIV and has been con­ferred the ti­tle of Mon­sign­or.

A group of over 50 prospec­tive landown­ers have se­cured a par­tial vic­to­ry in their le­gal dis­pute over a failed de­vel­op­ment in south Trinidad.