The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced that the new Coat of Arms will be in­tro­duced on ban­knotes from Au­gust, be­gin­ning with the Se­ries 2026 TT$100 de­nom­i­na­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is be­ing called a “cow­ard” and “liar” by his po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents, who are dis­miss­ing his claims that he would per­son­al­ly de­stroy the radar in To­ba­go if it were used by the Unit­ed States to at­tack Venezuela.

With just days to go be­fore elec­tion day, young peo­ple in To­ba­go are weigh­ing their op­tions at the polls. For some, it is about jobs and op­por­tu­ni­ty. For oth­ers, it is about roads, in­fra­struc­ture, or whether vot­ing even mat­ters at all.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has vowed to push back against any heavy-hand­ed en­force­ment by li­cens­ing of­fi­cers, em­pha­sis­ing that To­bag­o­ni­ans must not be un­fair­ly tar­get­ed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) pres­i­dent, Visham Bab­wah, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­view its tick­et­ing pol­i­cy when it comes to spare tyres and wind­screen de­fects, cit­ing glob­al man­u­fac­tur­ing trends and on­go­ing sup­ply-chain chal­lenges.

Mo­torists con­fused by the re­cent in­creas­es in late-fee penal­ties for dri­ver’s li­cence re­newals can now find clar­i­ty at li­cens­ing of­fices. Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our con­firmed yes­ter­day that all of­fices now dis­play up­dat­ed signs.

Sev­er­al spe­cial ed­u­ca­tion in­struc­tors at­tached to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion have been out of work since Au­gust, de­spite be­ing suc­cess­ful­ly rein­ter­viewed for re­newed three-year con­tracts last year.

The Gov­ern­ment has blocked ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion about re­port­ed Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, re­fus­ing to re­lease avi­a­tion records and in­vok­ing sweep­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­emp­tions, even as in­ter­na­tion­al re­ports, pub­lic avi­a­tion da­ta and the Gov­ern­ment’s own past ad­mis­sions point to US mil­i­tary move­ment through this coun­try.

A mere week af­ter Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro was oust­ed in an in­ter­ven­tion by the US mil­i­tary, there seems to be the be­gin­ning of a diplo­mat­ic thaw be­tween the US and the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alivin Hi­laire have stat­ed that they are anx­ious for his law­suit over his ter­mi­na­tion to go to tri­al. 

Af­ter walk­ing away from a fright­en­ing four-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion on the Gol­con­da Con­nec­tor Road, a truck dri­ver is warn­ing oth­er dri­vers to slow down and be re­spon­si­ble.

As the pub­lic grap­ples with the se­ries of gov­ern­ment no­tices that took ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, traf­fic fines have drawn the strongest back­lash. Some cit­i­zens have said the in­creas­es came as a shock and de­scribed them as dras­tic. While the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has yet to pub­lish a com­pre­hen­sive list of all the changes, Guardian Me­dia cross-ref­er­enced the avail­able da­ta to com­pile the fol­low­ing list of fee in­creas­es.