Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is deny­ing ac­cu­sa­tions that the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain the for­mer Coat of Arms dur­ing a tran­si­tion pe­ri­od is se­cre­tive, po­lit­i­cal­ly dri­ven or cul­tur­al­ly hos­tile.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has reaf­firmed that its mem­bers re­gard Cari­com as a crit­i­cal eco­nom­ic part­ner, amid re­newed pub­lic scruti­ny of re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the re­gion­al bloc.

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing in a “drunk stu­por” and warned of a “force­ful re­sponse” if Trinidad and To­ba­go al­lows the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary to use its ter­ri­to­ry to at­tack Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter of Do­mini­ca Roo­sevelt Sker­rit has con­firmed that the Unit­ed States has not with­drawn or sus­pend­ed its De­cem­ber 16 procla­ma­tion im­pos­ing par­tial trav­el re­stric­tions, but said the Gov­ern­ment has re­ceived key clar­i­fi­ca­tions on how the mea­sures will be ap­plied.

With just weeks to go be­fore To­ba­go’s Jan­u­ary 12 elec­tion, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says vot­ers re­main di­vid­ed on whether it is even worth turn­ing out to vote.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go has apol­o­gised to court users who have ex­pe­ri­enced long de­lays in re­ceiv­ing judg­ments and de­ci­sions, ac­knowl­edg­ing the im­pact of those de­lays and com­mit­ting to de­liv­er­ing out­stand­ing mat­ters in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has ap­pealed to all road users to pri­ori­tise safe­ty dur­ing the Christ­mas and New Year hol­i­days, as traf­fic vol­umes in­crease across the coun­try.

With Christ­mas just hours away, ven­dors across To­ba­go say sales are com­ing in, but not at the pace they have grown ac­cus­tomed to.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has as­sured that school su­per­vi­sors and guid­ance coun­sel­lors who have not yet re­ceived their retroac­tive pay­ments will be paid by Jan­u­ary 2026, fol­low­ing com­plaints from Third Sched­ule of­fi­cers in the Teach­ing Ser­vice.

Just over 1,800 work­ers have been em­ployed by the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture fol­low­ing the na­tion­al re­cruit­ment dri­ve launched in Oc­to­ber, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to strength­en field op­er­a­tions and ac­cel­er­ate main­te­nance work across the coun­try.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) say they’re do­ing their best this Christ­mas to as­sist those who lost their jobs at the hands of the Gov­ern­ment.

With Christ­mas just one day away, some liquor busi­ness­es in South Trinidad are not in good spir­its, as al­co­hol sales have plum­met­ed un­der steep du­ties.