This Christ­mas sea­son has be­come one of an­guish for rel­a­tives of 20-year-old Tyrese Pe­ters and his 50-year-old cousin Ja­son Rolle, who have both been miss­ing since No­vem­ber 27.

Iere Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School held its Christ­mas event, Car­ols un­der the Stars, on the school grounds on Wednes­day evening. The event brought to­geth­er stu­dents, teach­ers, par­ents, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers for a night of mu­sic and cel­e­bra­tion.

Hours af­ter po­lice made a ma­jor drug bust in the Ca­roni Swamp, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­mind­ed young peo­ple that a life of crime is not the way for­ward.

A fire that reignit­ed yes­ter­day along Cipero Street in San Fer­nan­do brought busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty to a near stand­still for a sec­ond straight day, as fire­fight­ers were forced to re­turn to con­tain fresh smoke and heat ris­ing from the smoul­der­ing site.

The Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) is no clos­er to know­ing the fate of its par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tions against Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Ltd (LM­CS) over an in­ci­dent at Paria’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty, which claimed the lives of four divers in 2022. 

Fire­One Fire­works has wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s move to in­tro­duce the Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, say­ing the pro­posed reg­u­la­tions align with its long-stand­ing fo­cus on pub­lic safe­ty and re­spon­si­ble cel­e­bra­tions.

A ban­dit was killed by po­lice dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers yes­ter­day morn­ing, and three of his ac­com­plices were ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a home in­va­sion.

Movi­eTowne own­er Derek Chin has urged the pub­lic to ex­er­cise cau­tion fol­low­ing a rob­bery out­side PriceS­mart yes­ter­day, which he said ex­posed gaps in the store’s se­cu­ri­ty.

The price of sor­rel re­mains cheap­er than last year in the lead-up to Christ­mas, but ven­dors ex­pect it to rise to $20 per pound as a na­tion­al short­age con­tin­ues to de­vel­op.

An in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Point Fortin has re­sult­ed in the seizure of an es­ti­mat­ed TT$56 mil­lion worth of cannabis – the sec­ond ma­jor drug bust by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in the space of 24 hours.

Re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al cli­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives met in Grena­da on De­cem­ber 4th for the third Ger­man-Caribbean Cli­mate Talks, where par­tic­i­pants ex­am­ined the out­comes of COP30 and out­lined steps need­ed to ad­vance Caribbean re­silience. The meet­ing took place at the Radis­son Ho­tel in Grand Anse and in­clud­ed am­bas­sadors, tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials, youth ad­vo­cates, and civ­il so­ci­ety lead­ers. The talks fol­lowed con­tin­ued re­cov­ery ef­forts in Grena­da af­ter Hur­ri­cane Beryl in 2024.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that she met of­fi­cials of the U.S. Em­bassy yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the more than $171 mil­lion drug bust in the Ca­roni Swamp.