Sev­er­al traf­fic fines were re­duced un­der a new le­gal or­der pub­lished on De­cem­ber 31, 2025, af­ter penal­ties set just days ear­li­er ex­ceed­ed lim­its pre­scribed un­der the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act. How­ev­er most oth­er fines were in­creased.

San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris says sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ments to pub­lic or­der are pos­si­ble with­out lan­guage he be­lieves di­min­ish­es the coun­try, as de­bate con­tin­ues over how lo­cal au­thor­i­ties should ad­dress in­dis­ci­pline and en­force­ment.

A Unit­ed States cit­i­zen was found dead at the Trinidad Hilton ear­ly this morn­ing af­ter falling from the sixth floor of the ho­tel.

Just over sev­en years af­ter it was first in­tro­duced, Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has end­ed its “Caribbean Café” buy-on-board ser­vice as part of a broad­er ef­fort to slash op­er­at­ing costs.

The first ba­by of the New Year at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus was born just af­ter mid­night.

From Syd­ney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with ex­u­ber­ant cel­e­bra­tions filled with thun­der­ous fire­works or light shows, while oth­ers took a more sub­dued ap­proach.

The An­tilles Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence (AEC) is call­ing on all Ro­man Catholics through­out the re­gion to ob­serve Thurs­day (Jan­u­ary 1, 2026) as a Caribbean Day of Prayer— “en­trust­ing our re­gion to the mer­cy, jus­tice and guid­ing light of Je­sus Christ”.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (CBTT) says do­mes­ti­cal­ly, the flu­id geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sion be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela is con­tribut­ing to build­ing eco­nom­ic un­cer­tain­ty.

New fees for ap­pli­ca­tions and ap­provals for cit­i­zen­ship, reg­is­tra­tion, and nat­u­ral­i­sa­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go will take ef­fect from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, fol­low­ing amend­ments to the Cit­i­zen­ship of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­u­la­tions.

Firearm li­cence fees in­crease from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, un­der new reg­u­la­tions is­sued by the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty.

The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) has is­sued a for­mal no­tice to fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien in­di­cat­ing that all gas me­ter runs to the Point Lisas fa­cil­i­ty will be iso­lat­ed from to­day, ef­fec­tive­ly cut­ting off sup­ply and ac­cess to port op­er­a­tions.

While work con­tin­ues on dam­aged road­ways in Pi­paro, Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jear­lean John says a com­plete restora­tion can­not be done at this time due to on­go­ing ground move­ment in the area.