Yes­ter­day, Cara­cas con­demned what it de­scribed as a “colo­nial­ist threat” af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump re­leased in­for­ma­tion an­nounc­ing that Venezue­lan air­space was blocked, a move Venezuela said amount­ed to an at­tempt to “give or­ders and threat­en the sov­er­eign­ty of the na­tion­al air­space.”

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne an­nounced that a re­newed traf­fic-man­age­ment and wreck­ing ini­tia­tive will com­mence to­mor­row, aimed at ad­dress­ing long-stand­ing is­sues of con­ges­tion and un­safe park­ing across the cap­i­tal.

The White House did not re­spond to ques­tions about what Trump post­ed on his Truth So­cial plat­form, and it was un­clear whether he was an­nounc­ing a new pol­i­cy or sim­ply re­in­forc­ing the mes­sag­ing around his cam­paign against Maduro, which has in­volved mul­ti­ple strikes in the Caribbean Sea and east­ern Pa­cif­ic Ocean on small boats ac­cused of fer­ry­ing drugs as well as a buildup of naval forces in the re­gion. More than 80 peo­ple have been killed in such strikes since ear­ly Sep­tem­ber.

Un­usu­al ac­tiv­i­ty at ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has sparked fresh con­cerns for To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, with the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) warn­ing of po­ten­tial fi­nan­cial fall­out as the is­land ap­proach­es the Christ­mas sea­son.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that the fine de­tails of the radar in­stal­la­tion at ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port can­not be dis­closed, cit­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr. Ralph Gon­salves, whose Uni­ty Labour Par­ty (ULP) was de­feat­ed in Thurs­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion af­ter 25 years in of­fice, say the par­ty is very much alive and he will re­turn to Par­lia­ment as Leader of the Op­po­si­tion.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) is con­tin­u­ing its probe in­to sev­er­al ques­tion­able mat­ters, ac­cord­ing to Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee. He spoke with Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day while at­tend­ing the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce’s an­nu­al Christ­mas func­tion.

The Min­istry of De­fence has is­sued a state­ment con­firm­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space re­mains open to all com­mer­cial air­craft. It comes af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced the clo­sure of Venezue­lan air­space on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The for­mer pres­i­dent of the Al­liance for a Green Rev­o­lu­tion in Africa (AGRA), Dr. Agnes Kali­ba­ta, says cli­mate change will con­tin­ue to strain glob­al food sys­tems, and that small is­land de­vel­op­ing states (SIDS) must be pre­pared for the re­sult­ing in­sta­bil­i­ty.

Busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions have ex­pressed strong sup­port for the Home In­va­sion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, with sev­er­al cham­bers say­ing the leg­is­la­tion could sig­nif­i­cant­ly im­prove se­cu­ri­ty for cit­i­zens and the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is­sued a warn­ing to air­lines, pi­lots, and what he de­scribed as “drug deal­ers and hu­man traf­fick­ers” to con­sid­er all air­space over and around Venezuela “closed.”

Cen­tral Trinidad will no longer be side­lined or ig­nored, de­clared Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ca­roni Cen­tral MP David Lee, as he de­liv­ered a force­ful ad­dress at the Cou­va Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce’s an­nu­al Christ­mas and Awards Func­tion. The event was held on Fri­day at the Cham­ber’s ad­min­is­tra­tive com­plex on Cam­den Road, Cou­va.