Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed an ex­ec­u­tive or­der Thurs­day that would re­clas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na as a less dan­ger­ous drug and open new av­enues for med­ical re­search—a ma­jor shift in fed­er­al drug pol­i­cy that inch­es clos­er to what many states have done.

Kalei­do­scope Paints Lim­it­ed host­ed a Christ­mas event for or­phaned chil­dren at its San Juan com­pound on De­cem­ber 7.

A team of 117 elec­tri­cal lines­men from Cana­da ar­rived in Ja­maica on Wednes­day, to as­sist the light and pow­er com­pa­ny—the Ja­maica Pub­lic Ser­vice (JPS)—to re­store elec­tric­i­ty in sec­tions of the is­land that were bat­tered by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

A High Court judge has freed truck dri­ver Skeater Fred­er­ick of caus­ing the deaths of a To­ba­go cou­ple by dan­ger­ous dri­ving af­ter pros­e­cu­tors con­ced­ed there was in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to se­cure a con­vic­tion.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has is­sued a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance to EOG Re­sources for off­shore ex­plo­ration of two gas wells, TG1 and TG2, with­in the NC­MA 4(a) Un­lim­it­ed Block off the North Coast of Trinidad.

Pope Leo XIV on Thurs­day made his most im­por­tant U.S. ap­point­ment to date, nam­ing a fel­low Chicagoan as the next arch­bish­op of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. arch­dio­ce­ses as it nav­i­gates re­la­tions with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion and its im­mi­gra­tion crack­down.

A wide-rang­ing clam­p­down on il­le­gal gam­bling, tax eva­sion, smug­gled al­co­hol and firearms un­fold­ed across Trinidad and To­ba­go this week, with po­lice seiz­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in un­paid gam­ing tax­es, con­tra­band liquor and cig­a­rettes, il­le­gal weapons and large quan­ti­ties of drugs.

A 55-year-old man died af­ter be­ing elec­tro­cut­ed while work­ing on a rooftop in Plum Mi­tan on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

Four sol­diers have been con­fined to Camp La Ro­main as en­quiries con­tin­ue in­to the rob­bery of two men at Build­ing 12, Mal­oney Gar­dens, last Mon­day night.

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo has is­sued a di­rect warn­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go of au­tho­ris­ing Unit­ed States mil­i­tary air­craft to use lo­cal air­ports and sug­gest­ing Venezuela would re­spond if its ter­ri­to­ry or peo­ple were harmed.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has an­nounced a mas­sive pack­age of arms sales to Tai­wan val­ued at more than $10 bil­lion that in­cludes medi­um-range mis­siles, how­itzers and drones, draw­ing an an­gry re­sponse from Chi­na.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA), Idi Stu­art, has called for wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for nurs­es to be con­clud­ed by Jan­u­ary or Feb­ru­ary 2026, de­scrib­ing the time­line as “non-ne­go­tiable.”