The Gov­ern­ment has ex­tend­ed the max­i­mum age to eight years for cer­tain im­port­ed ve­hi­cles and tight­ened el­i­gi­bil­i­ty rules for elec­tric ve­hi­cles, un­der amend­ments to the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act tak­ing ef­fect in 2026.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­moved cus­toms du­ty on a wide range of agri­cul­tur­al equip­ment and in­puts from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The Gov­ern­ment has tight­ened cus­toms du­ty con­ces­sions on elec­tric and CNG ve­hi­cles, lim­it­ing who ben­e­fits and by how much, un­der an amend­ment tak­ing ef­fect from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has warned that “firm and de­ci­sive ac­tion” will be tak­en against any­one who breach­es new­ly pro­claimed fire­works leg­is­la­tion now in force.

Gun­shots rang out on Sat­ur­day evening, end­ing the life of 35-year-old Ki­jana Matthew Co­dring­ton, whose body was lat­er found on a road­way in Mara­bel­la.

The gov­ern­ment has in­creased fees for births and deaths reg­is­tra­tion, with changes tak­ing ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026. The ad­just­ments were made un­der Le­gal No­tice 480, pub­lished in the of­fi­cial Gazette on Christ­mas Day.

A fam­i­ly is mourn­ing as the new year ap­proach­es fol­low­ing a fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Gas­par­il­lo ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.

Glob­al rat­ing agency S&P has down­grad­ed its long-term is­suer cred­it and is­sue-lev­el rat­ings on Con­sol­i­dat­ed En­er­gy Ltd (CEL), a sub­sidiary of the largest op­er­a­tor on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, from B to ‘CCC+’, plac­ing the com­pa­ny deep­er in­to junk-bond sta­tus.

The Gov­ern­ment has firm­ly dis­missed crit­i­cism over its move to dou­ble the fines for dozens of traf­fic of­fences from Jan­u­ary next year.

Po­lice are prob­ing a mur­der and shoot­ing which oc­curred along the busy Char­lotte Street in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day evening.

The Gov­ern­ment has dou­bled sev­er­al Cus­toms fees, ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, through a le­gal no­tice pub­lished on Christ­mas Day.

Pres­i­dent of the Route Two Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has warned that maxi taxi op­er­a­tors are prepar­ing for strong re­sis­tance to re­cent changes in traf­fic reg­u­la­tions and in­creas­es in bus route fees, which he says were im­ple­ment­ed with­out con­sul­ta­tion or prop­er jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.