The num­ber of Cana­di­an vis­i­tors to the Caribbean fell by nine per cent to 1.67 mil­lion, while ar­rivals from Eu­rope dropped by an es­ti­mat­ed five per cent to 2.53 mil­lion dur­ing the first half of 2025, com­pared to the same pe­ri­od last year.

Pas­tor Bick­ram Singh of the Com­mu­ni­ty Bible Church says while he is still un­clear over the cir­cum­stances that led to the killing of one man by po­lice, he is con­cerned over the in­ci­dent hap­pen­ing at the Church’s fa­cil­i­ties.

A joint law en­force­ment op­er­a­tion in Pa­lo Seco on Wednes­day re­sult­ed in the seizure of co­caine and Colom­bian mar­i­jua­na val­ued at more than $292 mil­lion.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment of sup­port from Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio for the ap­proval of Of­fice of For­eign As­set Con­trol (OFAC) li­cens­es.

Po­lice said the 30-year-old man was at his Bridal Av­enue home with his ex-girl­friend at around 5.10 am when he heard a man call out to her from out­side the house.

A po­lice of­fi­cer who ac­com­pa­nied her son to sell a hood­ie in Laven­tille was able to scare off two ban­dits who tried to rob them on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BATT) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Pres­i­dent & Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed, Nigel Bap­tiste, as its new Pres­i­dent, ef­fec­tive Au­gust 14, 2025.

T&T Restau­rant Week has of­fi­cial­ly en­tered a new chap­ter in its evo­lu­tion—recog­nised for the first time as a na­tion­al fes­ti­val by the Min­istry of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism.

Venezuela is not budg­ing and in­stead adopt­ing a wait-and-see ap­proach fol­low­ing Mon­day’s an­nounce­ment of the rein­car­na­tion of the Drag­on gas deal with Trinidad and To­ba­go. Well-placed sources in the Nicolás Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the re­cent rhetoric by both T&T and the Unit­ed States against Venezuela has been in­sult­ing. The sources said a dif­fer­ent ap­proach is re­quired from both na­tions in or­der for the Maduro regime to change its cur­rent stance in or­der for any deal to go for­ward.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has re­fused to say who will lead ne­go­ti­a­tions with Venezuela over the stalled Drag­on gas project, in­sist­ing on­ly that “the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go is one Gov­ern­ment.”

The US State De­part­ment is not mov­ing from its po­si­tion that Nico­las Maduro is not the le­git­i­mate leader of Venezuela.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young says the Gov­ern­ment’s rhetoric to­wards Venezuela in re­cent months will in­flu­ence ne­go­ti­a­tions for the Drag­on gas deal.