More than two weeks af­ter 70-year-old busi­ness­man Der­rick Tardieu was re­leased from kid­nap­pers, the where­abouts of his wife, Clari­bel Tardieu, re­main un­known, with var­i­ous re­sources still as­signed to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to their ab­duc­tion.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are try­ing to gath­er ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion on a man who was stabbed to death af­ter a wake in Diego Mar­tin ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice have de­stroyed a cannabis plan­ta­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise un­der Op­er­a­tion Tri­dent (West End) in the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Ro­man Catholic Vic­ar Gen­er­al, Fa­ther Mar­tin Sir­ju of the Arch­dio­cese of Port of Spain has been ap­point­ed Chap­lain of His Ho­li­ness by Pope Leo XIV and has been con­ferred the ti­tle of Mon­sign­or.

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.