Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances that led to the wound­ing of two men in San Juan ear­ly on Christ­mas Eve morn­ing.

The head of Haiti’s Pres­i­den­tial Tran­si­tion­al Coun­cil, (TPC),  Leslie Voltaire, has vowed that the au­thor­i­ties will seek to bring to jus­tice those re­spon­si­ble for the deaths of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two jour­nal­ists at the re­open­ing of the coun­try’s biggest pub­lic hos­pi­tal on Tues­day.

For­mer Suri­namese pres­i­dent De­si Bouterse, 79, died on Tues­day fol­low­ing a short ill­ness, well placed sources have con­firmed.

An Azer­bai­jani air­lin­er with 67 peo­ple on­board crashed Wednes­day near the Kaza­khstani city of Ak­tau, leav­ing at least 32 sur­vivors, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials. More than 30 peo­ple may be dead.

In her quest to have one of the best-dec­o­rat­ed homes in To­ba­go for the Christ­mas sea­son, Leslie Ann Bur­nette-Alexan­der spent around $5,000, trav­elled to Trinidad for lights and spent months putting it all to­geth­er at her Black Rock home.

To­ba­go East MP Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy has ex­pressed sor­row fol­low­ing the mur­der of Zachary Lin­dow.

In­stead of joy and hap­pi­ness on Christ­mas Day to­day, rel­a­tives of 33-year-old Keanu Chan­dler will be in pain and sor­row.

T&T record­ed its high­est mur­der toll of 608 up to mid­day yes­ter­day, mak­ing 2024 the blood­i­est year in the coun­try’s his­to­ry.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has ad­mit­ted to be­ing dis­ap­point­ed that mur­ders have reached a new record mark.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar wants the pop­u­la­tion to spend Christ­mas pray­ing for those af­fect­ed by crime, vi­o­lence, pover­ty and abuse in T&T. She en­cour­aged every­one to take mean­ing­ful ac­tions to im­prove the lives of those in need.

An in­ter­na­tion­al ma­rine ex­pert yes­ter­day joined the search for miss­ing oil rig work­er Pe­te Phillip. This was con­firmed by the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries via a state­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has urged cit­i­zens to re­flect on the bless­ings of liv­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go.