Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Al­varo Sanchez Cordero, is hop­ing the Unit­ed States’ de­ploy­ment of naval ves­sels near Venezuela is noth­ing more than a show of force against his coun­try that will “die away” in a few days.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of En­er­gy, Ernesto Ke­sar, says this coun­try’s off­shore oil and gas op­er­a­tions will not be af­fect­ed by the pres­ence of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ves­sels in wa­ters close to Trinidad’s coast.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is urg­ing cit­i­zens to read and un­der­stand what a nu­clear sub­ma­rine is to get a bet­ter sense of the sit­u­a­tion the Caribbean finds it­self in with the pres­ence of US naval ves­sels in the re­gion.

Deputy Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment leader Colm Im­bert claims there’s a re­cent Cab­i­net minute show­ing the Gov­ern­ment took a to­tal of $1.3 bil­lion meant for loans to con­duct crit­i­cal work at State agen­cies and used it to as­sist in fund­ing for the last two months of fis­cal 2025.

There have been 1,282 ar­rests by the po­lice since the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared on Ju­ly 18.

Cus­toms and Ex­cise of­fi­cers have seized nar­cotics val­ued at more than $7 mil­lion at a tran­sit shed in cen­tral Trinidad.

A mas­sive fire broke out yes­ter­day at Ice Con­nec­tion Lim­it­ed, a sty­ro­foam man­u­fac­tur­ing plant in Pi­ar­co, send­ing thick black smoke across the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and caus­ing heavy traf­fic dis­rup­tions.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) is now free to set a new date for its ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions. 

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has again bro­ken his si­lence on is­sues per­tain­ing to his min­istry, ad­dress­ing the leave of two of­fi­cers of the De­fence Force.

Di­vali Na­gar 2025 is ex­pect­ed to cost $3.5 mil­lion, and the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) is ap­peal­ing for at least $1 mil­lion in State fund­ing to help cov­er ex­pens­es.

T&T pan­nist Joshua Re­grel­lo has re­ceived his Guin­ness World Record cer­tifi­cate for his marathon steel­pan per­for­mance last year. In a video post­ed to his Face­book page, he opened a brown box re­veal­ing the cer­tifi­cate.

The coun­cil of the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion plans to es­tab­lish a com­mit­tee to ad­vise on an ap­pro­pri­ate mon­u­ment to re­place the now-re­moved Christo­pher Colum­bus stat­ue and re­name the square on In­de­pen­dence Square that bore his name.