The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­duct­ed 426 an­ti-crime and road safe­ty op­er­a­tions across all ten Po­lice Di­vi­sions over the Di­vali week­end. The ex­er­cis­es took place be­tween 6 a.m. on Thurs­day 16th Oc­to­ber, 2025, and 6 a.m. on Tues­day 21st Oc­to­ber, 2025.

Af­ter days of pan­ic among To­ba­go Car­ni­val band­lead­ers who feared los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars in cos­tume de­posits be­cause of lim­it­ed flights, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the flight short­age has been re­solved and more than 3,000 seats have been added to the air­bridge.

For­mer Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young has raised con­cerns about the cur­rent state of the en­er­gy sec­tor un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of $30,000 in cash from a roti ven­dor’s home on Di­vali af­ter­noon.

Japan’s par­lia­ment elect­ed ul­tra­con­ser­v­a­tive Sanae Takaichi as the coun­try’s first fe­male prime min­is­ter Tues­day, a day af­ter her strug­gling par­ty struck a coali­tion deal with a new part­ner ex­pect­ed to pull her gov­ern­ing bloc fur­ther to the right.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment (MoRDLG) re­port­ed min­i­mal im­pact from the trop­i­cal wave that passed over Trinidad and To­ba­go on Sun­day. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has since dis­con­tin­ued the Ad­verse Weath­er Alert as weath­er con­di­tions have im­proved across most ar­eas.

The Prime Min­is­ter has bro­ken her si­lence on the high alert adopt­ed by law en­force­ment of­fi­cials in the coun­try af­ter a se­cu­ri­ty ad­vi­so­ry from the US Em­bassy to its cit­i­zens, as­sur­ing the pop­u­la­tion that she and her Gov­ern­ment are “work­ing qui­et­ly and de­ci­sive­ly to keep you safe.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed con­cerns that Trinidad and To­ba­go could lose re­gion­al back­ing for its bid to sit on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil, say­ing she does not care if oth­er coun­tries with­draw their sup­port.

The moth­er of Chad “Char­po” Joseph, one of two lo­cal men killed in a US airstrike sup­pos­ed­ly tar­get­ing nar­co-traf­fick­ers, says she is putting the Gov­ern­ment in God’s hands.

Re­gion­al po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Pe­ter Wick­ham has warned that the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion may be ven­tur­ing in­to dan­ger­ous ter­ri­to­ry, ap­pear­ing to en­dorse ex­tra-ju­di­cial killings as part of its crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.

Tens of thou­sands of peo­ple have ap­plied to the Gov­ern­ment’s new­ly launched on­line em­ploy­ment plat­form, in what Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said is a clear sign that cit­i­zens are ready to work.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has con­firmed that he has re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port from the com­mit­tee ap­point­ed to as­sess the fea­si­bil­i­ty of restart­ing the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.