Fear is sweep­ing through the vil­lage of Pi­paro this morn­ing as the mud vol­cano shows height­ened ac­tiv­i­ty, with loud rum­bling and mud and gas­es spew­ing in­to the air.

An­gos­tu­ra has re­leased a lim­it­ed-edi­tion artis­tic pack­ag­ing for its pre­mi­um rum, An­gos­tu­ra Founders Re­serve 1824.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the killing of a 68-year-old woman at her home on Nanan Street, Bam­boo #1, Val­sayn, ear­ly on De­cem­ber 24, 2025.

A 45-year-old dri­ver was kid­napped and robbed dur­ing a ve­hi­cle view­ing in Barataria yes­ter­day.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is deny­ing ac­cu­sa­tions that the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain the for­mer Coat of Arms dur­ing a tran­si­tion pe­ri­od is se­cre­tive, po­lit­i­cal­ly dri­ven or cul­tur­al­ly hos­tile.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has reaf­firmed that its mem­bers re­gard Cari­com as a crit­i­cal eco­nom­ic part­ner, amid re­newed pub­lic scruti­ny of re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the re­gion­al bloc.

Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of be­ing in a “drunk stu­por” and warned of a “force­ful re­sponse” if Trinidad and To­ba­go al­lows the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary to use its ter­ri­to­ry to at­tack Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter of Do­mini­ca Roo­sevelt Sker­rit has con­firmed that the Unit­ed States has not with­drawn or sus­pend­ed its De­cem­ber 16 procla­ma­tion im­pos­ing par­tial trav­el re­stric­tions, but said the Gov­ern­ment has re­ceived key clar­i­fi­ca­tions on how the mea­sures will be ap­plied.

With just weeks to go be­fore To­ba­go’s Jan­u­ary 12 elec­tion, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says vot­ers re­main di­vid­ed on whether it is even worth turn­ing out to vote.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go has apol­o­gised to court users who have ex­pe­ri­enced long de­lays in re­ceiv­ing judg­ments and de­ci­sions, ac­knowl­edg­ing the im­pact of those de­lays and com­mit­ting to de­liv­er­ing out­stand­ing mat­ters in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has ap­pealed to all road users to pri­ori­tise safe­ty dur­ing the Christ­mas and New Year hol­i­days, as traf­fic vol­umes in­crease across the coun­try.

With Christ­mas just hours away, ven­dors across To­ba­go say sales are com­ing in, but not at the pace they have grown ac­cus­tomed to.