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.

The Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go says it has se­cured a new roll-on/roll-off pas­sen­ger and car­go ves­sel, the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, to re­place the MV Cabo Star when its lease ex­pires on Jan­u­ary 12, 2026.

Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio and oth­er top of­fi­cials briefed lead­ers in Con­gress late Mon­day on the strik­ing mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion in Venezuela amid mount­ing con­cerns that Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is em­bark­ing on a new era of U.S. ex­pan­sion­ism with­out con­sul­ta­tion with law­mak­ers or a clear vi­sion for run­ning the South Amer­i­can coun­try.

The On­line Gam­ing Agents As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go has re­quest­ed an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing the Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board of avoid­ing en­gage­ment while mil­lions of dol­lars in state rev­enue are lost each week.

Trinidad and To­ba­go, along with oth­er Caribbean na­tions, is be­ing warned of the dan­gers posed fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States’ re­moval of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro—an op­er­a­tion Wash­ing­ton has framed as the ex­e­cu­tion of an ar­rest war­rant linked to al­leged nar­cotics traf­fick­ing.

De­posed Venezue­lan leader Nicolás Maduro de­clared him­self “in­no­cent” and a “de­cent man” as he plead­ed not guilty to fed­er­al drug traf­fick­ing charges in a US court­room yes­ter­day. “I’m in­no­cent. I am not guilty. I am a de­cent man, the pres­i­dent of my coun­try,” Maduro told a judge.

Di­rec­tor of Par­lia­ment Fer­nan­do So­to Ro­jas yes­ter­day con­demned what he de­scribed as the “bar­bar­ic” kid­nap­ping of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro by the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary on Sat­ur­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go stands stead­fast with the US amid dif­fer­ing Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil views on the re­cent US mil­i­tary ac­tion con­cern­ing Venezuela and its de­posed leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Even as Venezuela’s de­tained pres­i­dent, Nicolás Maduro, ap­peared be­fore a US fed­er­al court to face charges in­clud­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism and con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine, Joel Ce­de­no was un­con­vinced that his coun­try had turned a cor­ner af­ter more than two decades un­der the Unit­ed So­cial­ist Par­ty of Venezuela (PSUV).

For­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is ques­tion­ing why Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has not told Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­act­ly how he feels about the US mil­i­tary radar in­stalled at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port — and ex­act­ly where To­bag­o­ni­ans be­lieve she should put it.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean says flight can­cel­la­tions have not stopped fol­low­ing re­cent re­gion­al air­space dis­rup­tions, but there is no pan­ic among vis­i­tors cur­rent­ly on the is­land.