For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith and re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah have de­scribed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) as a vi­able and ef­fec­tive op­tion once the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends, warn­ing that crime could surge if emer­gency pow­ers are lift­ed with­out prop­er con­tin­gency plan­ning.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee said sev­er­al hous­ing projects are near­ing com­ple­tion and will be hand­ed over to ap­pli­cants in the first quar­ter of 2026.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju of the Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain, has been ap­point­ed Chap­lain of His Ho­li­ness by Pope Leo XIV and has been con­ferred the ti­tle of Mon­sign­or.

A group of over 50 prospec­tive landown­ers have se­cured a par­tial vic­to­ry in their le­gal dis­pute over a failed de­vel­op­ment in south Trinidad.

A po­lice con­sta­ble ac­cused of mur­der has been giv­en the green light to pur­sue a law­suit over a de­ci­sion by the po­lice to charge him for am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion un­der the Firearms Act af­ter he was ar­rest­ed and de­tained un­der Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

In an at­tempt to fur­ther reg­u­larise and for­malise vend­ing in the cap­i­tal city, the City Cor­po­ra­tion has draft­ed 2026 con­tracts for reg­is­tered ven­dors of the Char­lotte Street and En­vi­rons Vend­ing Pro­gramme.

More than two weeks af­ter 70-year-old busi­ness­man Der­rick Tardieu was re­leased from kid­nap­pers, the where­abouts of his wife, Clari­bel Tardieu, re­main un­known, with var­i­ous re­sources still as­signed to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to their ab­duc­tion.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are try­ing to gath­er ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion on a man who was stabbed to death af­ter a wake in Diego Mar­tin ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice have de­stroyed a cannabis plan­ta­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise un­der Op­er­a­tion Tri­dent (West End) in the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju of the Arch­dio­cese of Port of Spain has been ap­point­ed Chap­lain of His Ho­li­ness by Pope Leo XIV and has been con­ferred the ti­tle of Mon­sign­or.

The in­ter-is­land fer­ry APT James is now ex­pect­ed to re­turn to ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 9, 2026, lat­er than the pre­vi­ous­ly in­di­cat­ed Jan­u­ary 3.

U.S. Em­bassy per­son­nel from the Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion Vet­ted Unit, sup­port­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Spe­cial In­ves­tiga­tive Unit and the Transna­tion­al Or­gan­ised Crime Unit, ex­e­cut­ed three Pro­vi­sion­al Ar­rest War­rants on De­cem­ber 30, 2025, for Trinidad cit­i­zens Rafael Joseph, Michael Mc­Sween and Clevon Per­sad. All three face charges in the East­ern Dis­trict of New York for con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine in­to the Unit­ed States and firearms of­fences stem­ming from a 2024 DEA in­ves­ti­ga­tion sup­port­ed by the DEA New York Field Di­vi­sion.