For sev­er­al for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers, Christ­mas 2025 was marked less by cel­e­bra­tion and more by sur­vival.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA), Idi Stu­art, says dis­cus­sions may com­mence as ear­ly as next week over the set­tle­ment agree­ment for Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers.

Med­ical out­reach work­er Dr Christi­na Ben­itez has been trav­el­ling to Ica­cos to pro­vide care to Warao chil­dren liv­ing along the south-west­ern coast­line, as the mi­grant pop­u­la­tion in the area con­tin­ues to grow and un­cer­tain­ty deep­ens amid on­go­ing re­gion­al ten­sions.

For­mer Ja­maican am­bas­sador Cur­tis A Ward has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is now firm­ly “in the crosshairs” and is like­ly to face se­ri­ous fall­out for what he de­scribes as its un­re­served sup­port of Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tions against Venezuela, while sharply crit­i­cis­ing Caribbean lead­ers for what he called weak­ness and fear in the face of Wash­ing­ton.

An­gli­can Bish­op of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Right Rev­erend Claude Berkley, has called on cit­i­zens to em­brace hope, com­pas­sion, and ac­tion as the na­tion cel­e­brates Christ­mas, a sea­son he de­scribed as es­pe­cial­ly sig­nif­i­cant amid grow­ing anx­i­ety and un­cer­tain­ty.

Prison au­thor­i­ties are prob­ing the sud­den death of a pris­on­er who is said to have fall­en ill at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Gold­en Grove on Christ­mas Day and was rushed to the hos­pi­tal, where he lat­er died.

Cer­ti­fied tour guides in To­ba­go are prepar­ing to hold dis­cus­sions on any pos­si­ble fall­out from on­go­ing ten­sions in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, as they as­sess how the sit­u­a­tion could af­fect the re­main­der of the tourism sea­son.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTB­WA) has raised con­cerns that blind and vi­su­al­ly im­paired per­sons were ex­clud­ed from re­cent pub­lic hous­ing al­lo­ca­tions, de­spite Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to in­clude per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties.

An­gli­can Bish­op of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Right Rev­erend Claude Berkley, has called on cit­i­zens to em­brace hope, com­pas­sion and ac­tion as the na­tion cel­e­brates Christ­mas, a sea­son he de­scribed as es­pe­cial­ly sig­nif­i­cant amid grow­ing anx­i­ety and un­cer­tain­ty.

Guyana’s non-oil econ­o­my grew by 13.8 per cent in the first half of 2025, ac­cord­ing to the mid-year eco­nom­ic re­port.

The usu­al throngs of shop­pers who tra­di­tion­al­ly line up out­side stores for Box­ing Day bar­gains were no­tice­ably ab­sent along High Street, San Fer­nan­do, a con­trast to pre­vi­ous years when long lines formed be­fore dawn to cap­i­talise on deep dis­counts.

The Pin­to Road, Ari­ma com­mu­ni­ty was thrown in­to shock yes­ter­day, af­ter a group of gun­men stormed a home and shot two peo­ple dead, in­clud­ing a 14-year-old boy.