Plans to be­gin mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um have re­port­ed­ly been post­poned, adding to un­cer­tain­ty among mi­grants seek­ing to reg­u­larise their sta­tus un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pand­ed reg­is­tra­tion frame­work.

Since News­day’s an­nounce­ment that it has com­menced le­gal pro­ceed­ings to close, much has been writ­ten here at home and around the re­gion about this de­ci­sion. The clo­sure of any news­pa­per any­where in the world res­onates with jour­nal­ists every­where as they un­der­stand the chal­lenges of this unique in­dus­try that of­ten sits on the edge of chal­leng­ing fi­nan­cial de­ci­sion-mak­ing. In the midst of the noise that has en­cir­cled this an­nounce­ment, the sober re­al­i­ty is that sus­tain­ing a tra­di­tion­al me­dia house in this era is a tough bal­anc­ing act.

With Car­ni­val less than a month away, for­mer pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (TTC­BA) Dune Ali is rais­ing con­cerns about the tenure of the as­so­ci­a­tion’s cur­rent pres­i­dent, Mark Ayen.

Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers say they are still wait­ing on salary in­creas­es, even as oth­er pub­lic ser­vants pre­pare to ben­e­fit from a 10 per cent wage in­crease se­cured by the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) start­ing this month.

As the Car­ni­val 2026 sea­son heats up and the year’s new so­ca tunes hit the air­waves, the Bo­cas Lit Fest will launch a new se­ries of “Kaiso Con­ver­sa­tions” fo­cused on the art of ca­lyp­so song­writ­ing, with a spe­cial event fea­tur­ing mu­si­cal icon David Rud­der.

Po­lice seized cannabis and ar­rest­ed two peo­ple dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Area North of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Sat­ur­day that he would charge a 10% im­port tax start­ing in Feb­ru­ary on goods from eight Eu­ro­pean na­tions be­cause of their op­po­si­tion to Amer­i­can con­trol of Green­land, set­ting up a po­ten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous test of U.S. part­ner­ships in Eu­rope.

When Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced the au­da­cious cap­ture of Nicolás Maduro to face drug traf­fick­ing charges in the U.S., he por­trayed the strong­man’s vice pres­i­dent and long­time aide as Amer­i­ca’s pre­ferred part­ner to sta­bi­lize Venezuela amid a scourge of drugs, cor­rup­tion and eco­nom­ic may­hem.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has called for com­mu­ni­ca­tion on the im­ple­men­ta­tion and im­pact of Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions as the Gov­ern­ment moves to use the mea­sure in re­sponse to crime.

Po­lice seized il­le­gal con­tra­band dur­ing a joint in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise at the Women’s Prison, Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca this morn­ing.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Fe­l­isha Thomas, said a PSA del­e­ga­tion held ne­go­ti­a­tions with the four Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties on out­stand­ing wage mat­ters.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­in­forced her sup­port for the Unit­ed States as “the leader of the free world in this hemi­sphere,” and she’s said US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has done noth­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go, but maybe he has some oth­er peo­ple to deal with.