Rel­a­tives have found the body of the man be­lieved to be re­spon­si­ble for as­sault­ing a woman who re­mains co­matose and in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

A black­out hit near­ly all of Puer­to Ri­co ear­ly Tues­day as the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry pre­pared to cel­e­brate New Year’s, leav­ing more than 1.3 mil­lion clients in the dark. Of­fi­cials said it could take up to two days to re­store pow­er.

In Dam­as­cus, the streets were buzzing with ex­cite­ment Tues­day as Syr­i­ans wel­comed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter fu­ture af­ter the un­ex­pect­ed fall of Bashar As­sad’s gov­ern­ment weeks ear­li­er.

In the out­go­ing Chi­nese cal­en­dar Year of the Drag­on, when crime man­age­ment was again the bane of Gov­ern­ment and a boon for the Op­po­si­tion’s bat­tles, it was al­so a year of oth­er drag­on-sized chal­lenges for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

The Min­istry of Health (MoH), via its Chem­istry, Food and Drugs Di­vi­sion, is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic of the vol­un­tary re­call of Lot 10101 of Sys­tane Lu­bri­cant Eye Drops Ul­tra PF, Sin­gle Vials On-the-Go.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty says the Na­tion­al Flag of Trinidad and To­ba­go will be flown at half-mast on the day of the state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al of Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for D'Abadie/O'Meara and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

A 25-year-old Cunu­pia man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of Ke­shav Jah­goo, which oc­curred on De­cem­ber 17, 2024.

A Yel­low Lev­el Haz­ardous Seas Alert is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) is in ef­fect from now un­til 4pm Jan­u­ary 2.

Cit­i­zens Against Noise Pol­lu­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CANPTT) is call­ing on cit­i­zens to take ac­tion against the abuse of fire­works, fol­low­ing what they de­scribe as the "flip­pant and dis­mis­sive" re­spons­es of both the Act­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.

The To­ba­go Tourism Agency Lim­it­ed (TTAL) says that de­spite the State of Emer­gency (SoE) de­c­la­ra­tion, To­ba­go re­mains a wel­com­ing des­ti­na­tion for trav­ellers.

Guyana is re­port­ing in­creased pro­duc­tion in rice, corn, and soya this year and is in­tent on ex­pand­ing pro­duc­tion in the new year.

Auck­land has be­come the first ma­jor city to wel­come 2025, with thou­sands of rev­ellers count­ing down to the new year and cheer­ing at colour­ful fire­works launched from New Zealand’s tallest struc­ture, Sky Tow­er, and a spec­tac­u­lar down­town light show.