As the Catholic Church cel­e­brates 2025 as its Ju­bilee Year, Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don is call­ing on the faith­ful to re­ject the neg­a­tiv­i­ty of­ten spread through vi­ral so­cial memes.

Both Trinidad and To­ba­go are un­der a Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert which will re­main in ef­fect un­til to­mor­row, the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has ad­vised.

The U.S. Army vet­er­an who drove a pick­up truck in­to a crowd of New Year’s rev­ellers act­ed alone, the FBI said Thurs­day, re­vers­ing its po­si­tion from a day ear­li­er that he like­ly worked with oth­ers in the dead­ly at­tack that of­fi­cials said was in­spired by the Is­lam­ic State group.

Im­peached South Ko­re­an Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol, in a mes­sage to con­ser­v­a­tive sup­port­ers ral­ly­ing out­side his Seoul res­i­dence, vowed to “fight to the end” against “an­ti-state forces”, while his le­gal team warned Thurs­day that po­lice of­fi­cers at­tempt­ing to de­tain him could face ar­rest by his pres­i­den­tial se­cu­ri­ty ser­vice or even civil­ians.

The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Colm Im­bert, MP, has ad­vised that the Tax Amnesty and Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Amnesty in­tro­duced by the Fi­nance Act 2024, which ex­pired on De­cem­ber 31, 2024, will be ex­tend­ed to Jan­u­ary 31, 2025.

Pow­er was re­stored to near­ly all elec­tri­cal cus­tomers across Puer­to Ri­co on Wednes­day af­ter a sweep­ing black­out plunged the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry in­to dark­ness on New Year’s Eve.

The Panora­ma 2025 com­pe­ti­tion in the Small Con­ven­tion­al Bands’ Cat­e­go­ry gets un­der­way in two days, be­gin­ning at the Tokyo Steel Or­ches­tra Pa­n­yard at No. 2A Plai­sance Road, John John, Laven­tille.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is call­ing all state at­tor­neys to be pro­tect­ed fol­low­ing the shoot­ing death of Ran­dall Hec­tor.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon has said that he hopes the re­sults of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) will not be tem­po­rary but that mea­sures put in place will con­tin­ue long af­ter the SoE is over.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is hop­ing that the key ob­jec­tives of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE) are met and “re­alised in the short­est pos­si­ble time”, as law-abid­ing cit­i­zens’ civ­il rights and lib­er­ties can be neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed dur­ing such a cru­cial pe­ri­od.

Sev­en peo­ple were ar­rest­ed, and two high-pow­ered ri­fles along with quan­ti­ties of cannabis were seized dur­ing the De­cem­ber 2024 pe­ri­od, as the Tac­ti­cal Sup­port Unit car­ried out sev­er­al Op­er­a­tion BLAST an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es.

A quan­ti­ty of high-grade com­pressed cannabis was seized dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in St. James last night, the Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing.