Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said To­bag­o­ni­ans' pa­tience are "right­ful­ly run­ning out" as the dis­rup­tion to the car­go ser­vice is now a mat­ter of se­ri­ous con­cern. On Feb­ru­ary 2, Au­gus­tine ap­pealed to the pub­lic for "grace and pa­tience" amid the tran­si­tion from the Cabo Star to the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing to de­liv­er on its job promis­es and called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ac­count to thou­sands of ap­pli­cants.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine over gov­er­nance in To­ba­go and the im­pact the out of ser­vice Blue Wave Har­mo­ny is hav­ing on his op­er­a­tions.

An armed man drove in­to the se­cure perime­ter of Mar-a-La­go, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s re­sort in Palm Beach, Flori­da, as an­oth­er ve­hi­cle was ex­it­ing be­fore be­ing shot and killed ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing, ac­cord­ing to a spokesman for the U.S. Se­cret Ser­vice.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to in­ter­vene in the car­go seabridge is­sues af­fect­ing To­ba­go.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice seized cannabis val­ued at over TT $6.3 mil­lion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Gas­par­il­lo on Sat­ur­day.

Of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion ar­rest­ed two men in con­nec­tion with re­ports of home in­va­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Cou­va Po­lice Dis­trict on Sat­ur­day.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion ar­rest­ed a for­eign na­tion­al and seized a quan­ti­ty of sus­pect­ed Ke­t­a­mine dur­ing an an­ti-nar­cotics ex­er­cise in Arou­ca on Fri­day.

On Oc­to­ber 19, 2025, the Gov­ern­ment launched a Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve and pro­mot­ed a new on­line hir­ing plat­form un­der the Em­ployTT do­main.

Last week, af­ter close to three months in the Caribbean, the nu­clear-pow­ered air­craft car­ri­er USS Ger­ald R Ford left the re­gion.

Less than 24 hours af­ter the TT Cham­ber of Com­merce ex­pressed grave con­cern over the dis­rup­tion to car­go ser­vice on the seabridge, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny failed to de­part Port-of-Spain at its sched­uled 9.30 pm sail­ing on Fri­day.

Res­i­dents of the Sea Trace, Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin com­mu­ni­ty—wept open­ly yes­ter­day as they mourned the mur­ders of two men on Fri­day night dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing, which has left them shak­en and scared.