The North-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NWRHA) is hop­ing to make Car­ni­val 2025 free of the flu as it launch­es a ma­jor vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve this Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2025.

Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit Wednes­day said that the gov­ern­ment will un­der­take a fur­ther re­view of the is­land’s min­i­mum wage and would al­so be mov­ing to­wards re­duc­ing cor­po­ra­tion tax­es this year.

Jim­my Carter, who con­sid­ered him­self an out­sider even as he sat in the Oval Of­fice as the 39th U.S. pres­i­dent, will be hon­ored Thurs­day with the pageantry of a fu­ner­al at Wash­ing­ton Na­tion­al Cathe­dral be­fore a sec­ond ser­vice and bur­ial in his tiny Geor­gia home­town.

Days af­ter Stu­art Young was cho­sen as Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley's suc­ces­sor at a par­lia­men­tary re­treat in To­ba­go, he is now in lim­bo, as sev­er­al MPs who were in that cau­cus are said to now be re­fus­ing to en­dorse him on a doc­u­ment in­di­cat­ing he will have ma­jor­i­ty sup­port in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives when Row­ley even­tu­al­ly steps down.

Some ju­di­cial of­fi­cers have been ad­vised to cur­tail their move­ments this week af­ter a so­cial me­dia in­flu­encer made a threat to their safe­ty late last week. 

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor An­cil Den­nis says there’s no need for a gen­er­al coun­cil to rat­i­fy the de­ci­sion to name En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young as the next prime min­is­ter.

Po­lice have placed some sus­pect­ed gang mem­bers held dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) un­der house ar­rest as they con­tin­ue to tar­get those they have iden­ti­fied as pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers.

On Mon­day, Amelia took her first steps in­to the Claps Acad­e­my, weeks af­ter Guardian Me­dia high­light­ed her strug­gles.

Days af­ter the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment an­nounced that Stu­art Young will suc­ceed Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter, three of the five Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) dis­si­dents have called for the Op­po­si­tion par­ty to evolve and strength­en its in­sti­tu­tion­al frame­work, as­sert­ing that its fu­ture suc­cess hinges on its abil­i­ty to adapt to the evolv­ing needs of the elec­torate.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has hit back at Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, ac­cus­ing him of mis­lead­ing the pub­lic and “tak­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans for fools” with his claims about To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) will meet on Sat­ur­day to of­fi­cial­ly ap­prove Prakash Ra­mad­har as the par­ty’s new po­lit­i­cal leader.

Se­vere staff short­ages and out­dat­ed leg­is­la­tion have crip­pled the ef­forts of state agen­cies to com­bat il­le­gal squat­ting in Trinidad with dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for the coun­try’s for­est re­serves. Com­mis­sion­er of State Lands (COSL) Paula Drakes re­vealed that squat­ter de­vel­op­ments have en­croached on 50-60 per cent of for­est re­serves in North and Cen­tral Trinidad.