As To­ba­go’s trans­porta­tion woes once again dom­i­nate na­tion­al at­ten­tion, Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Jear­lean John has stepped for­ward to de­fend the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the lat­est dis­rup­tions. Her de­fence comes as the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) in­ten­si­fies its call to end what it de­scribes as a decades-long “eco­nom­ic and so­cial em­bar­go” on the is­land caused by what it calls un­re­li­able air and seabridge ser­vices.

Thou­sands of pa­trons at­tempt­ing to leave the ‘Stink and Dut­ty’ fete held at the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port were caught in hours-long traf­fic con­ges­tion yes­ter­day, leav­ing the West­ern Main Road se­vere­ly grid­locked. The traf­fic night­mare prompt­ed some rev­ellers to seek al­ter­na­tive routes by sea to get home.

Un­der the blis­ter­ing mid­day sun at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, ca­lyp­so lovers sent a clear and de­fi­ant mes­sage yes­ter­day that pi­cong, po­lit­i­cal com­men­tary and fear­less so­cial crit­i­cism were the lifeblood of the art form, say­ing any at­tempt to si­lence them is an at­tack on free­dom of ex­pres­sion.

The Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah shim­mered with colour, cre­ativ­i­ty and child­hood pride yes­ter­day as the Red Cross Chil­dren’s Car­ni­val marked its 70th an­niver­sary, de­liv­er­ing what or­gan­is­ers de­scribed as the truest form of mas — imag­i­na­tive, com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven and root­ed in pur­pose.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice should be al­lowed to in­ves­ti­gate its own of­fi­cers, as rel­a­tives and friends of Joshua Sama­roo ex­pressed de­creas­ing trust in the ser­vice.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a ran­som de­mand, fol­low­ing the kid­nap­ping of Pe­nal busi­ness­man Michael Ale­jan­dro Es­pana Ram­nath, pop­u­lar­ly known as “Span­ish,” as his rel­a­tives re­main fear­ful for his life.

Last week, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk re­vealed that in 2025, when T&T was in a State of Emer­gency (SoE) from the start to the end of the year, the coun­try had the high­est num­ber of po­lice in­volved killings at 55.

On Jan­u­ary 11, US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, on a Truth So­cial post, wrote, “THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MON­EY GO­ING TO CU­BA – ZE­RO!”

For years, they’ve nav­i­gat­ed the skies of the north­ern Caribbean. Tak­ing pas­sen­gers to and from some of the most tech­ni­cal­ly chal­leng­ing air­ports in the re­gion.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump plans to con­vene the first meet­ing of his Board of Peace this month in Wash­ing­ton to raise mon­ey for the re­con­struc­tion of Gaza.

Haiti’s pres­i­den­tial coun­cil stepped down on Sat­ur­day af­ter al­most two years of tu­mul­tuous rule along­side a U.S.-backed prime min­is­ter, who is ex­pect­ed to re­main in pow­er as the coun­try pre­pares for the first gen­er­al elec­tions in a decade.

Sev­en­ty-two hours af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar en­dorsed a new five per cent Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) trans­fer fee and 10 per cent prop­er­ty pur­chase, the pol­i­cy now ap­pears to be on hold.