While many fam­i­lies are prepar­ing for Christ­mas, a La Ro­maine fam­i­ly is now in mourn­ing af­ter a fiery high­way crash claimed the life of a 50-year-old man on Sun­day.

On Thurs­day, res­i­dents of Bras­so Seco, Paria, in need of med­ical care, were tend­ed to un­der a tent in the road­way, just feet away from where a land­slide caused the road to col­lapse.

A pris­on­er who was on re­mand for the mur­der of a po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in his cell at the Port-of-Spain Prison on Fred­er­ick Street yes­ter­day.

Po­lice of­fi­cer Vanes­sa Ra­moutar trad­ed her uni­form for a Mrs Claus out­fit this week­end as she brought joy to dozens of chil­dren at the launch of the Movanzi Em­pow­er­ment Youth Club and its first an­nu­al Christ­mas treat.

Less than two weeks be­fore Christ­mas, there was no hus­tle and bus­tle at the main shop­ping cen­tre—High Street, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day—caus­ing con­cern among some busi­ness own­ers.

The re­cent de­ci­sion by Moody’s rat­ings agency to shift T&T’s out­look from sta­ble to neg­a­tive has sparked po­lit­i­cal de­bate, but econ­o­mists say the move re­flects long-stand­ing eco­nom­ic pres­sures rather than any abrupt change in cir­cum­stances.

Trade union leader Michael An­nisette says he has for­giv­en the men who mur­dered his son Mic­ah in San­gre Chiq­ui­to last Fri­day.

To­ba­go po­lice are await­ing the re­sults of an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine what caused the death of 47-year-old Lyn­don De Leon, whose body was found along the Shir­van Road on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A for­mer gam­ing ma­chine tech­ni­cian, Vern Khan, has lost his neg­li­gence law­suit against the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA).

The cre­ation of a na­tion­al an­ti-cor­rup­tion com­mis­sion has been sug­gest­ed as a tool in strength­en­ing the ca­pac­i­ties of dif­fer­ent agen­cies in the fight against cor­rup­tion.

There is lit­tle to no con­cern of drought con­di­tions for next year’s dry sea­son, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS). Their act­ing Chief Cli­ma­tol­o­gist, Kaidar Kissoon, said that the fore­cast calls for “a wet start to the 2026 dry sea­son.”

Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion Pres­i­dent Kevin Rati­ram is call­ing for ur­gent na­tion­al sup­port to help mi­grant chil­dren ac­cess ed­u­ca­tion, trans­porta­tion, and emo­tion­al care—warn­ing that with­out ear­ly in­ter­ven­tion, the coun­try could face deep­er so­cial chal­lenges in the fu­ture.