To­ba­go has record­ed its first mur­der for 2026, with one sus­pect now in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing a killing in Sig­nal Hill last night.

One day af­ter the de­com­pos­ing body of pen­sion­er Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan was found in bizarre cir­cum­stances in a town­house she shared with her daugh­ter and spe­cial-needs grand­daugh­ter in Ch­agua­nas, her rel­a­tives yes­ter­day waved away re­porters from their doorstep be­fore dis­ap­pear­ing be­hind the cur­tains.

As the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the kid­nap­ping of Der­rick “Stones” Tardieu and his wife Clara­belle deep­ens, law en­force­ment agen­cies have con­tin­ued to keep the cou­ple se­cret­ed away from the pub­lic.

A pe­ti­tion to wind up Dai­ly News Lim­it­ed was filed on De­cem­ber 31, 2025, and is pub­lished in the dai­ly news­pa­pers to­day.

The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced that the new Coat of Arms will be in­tro­duced on ban­knotes from Au­gust, be­gin­ning with the Se­ries 2026 TT$100 de­nom­i­na­tion.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is be­ing called a “cow­ard” and “liar” by his po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents, who are dis­miss­ing his claims that he would per­son­al­ly de­stroy the radar in To­ba­go if it were used by the Unit­ed States to at­tack Venezuela.

With just days to go be­fore elec­tion day, young peo­ple in To­ba­go are weigh­ing their op­tions at the polls. For some, it is about jobs and op­por­tu­ni­ty. For oth­ers, it is about roads, in­fra­struc­ture, or whether vot­ing even mat­ters at all.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has vowed to push back against any heavy-hand­ed en­force­ment by li­cens­ing of­fi­cers, em­pha­sis­ing that To­bag­o­ni­ans must not be un­fair­ly tar­get­ed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) pres­i­dent, Visham Bab­wah, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­view its tick­et­ing pol­i­cy when it comes to spare tyres and wind­screen de­fects, cit­ing glob­al man­u­fac­tur­ing trends and on­go­ing sup­ply-chain chal­lenges.

Mo­torists con­fused by the re­cent in­creas­es in late-fee penal­ties for dri­ver’s li­cence re­newals can now find clar­i­ty at li­cens­ing of­fices. Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our con­firmed yes­ter­day that all of­fices now dis­play up­dat­ed signs.

Sev­er­al spe­cial ed­u­ca­tion in­struc­tors at­tached to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion have been out of work since Au­gust, de­spite be­ing suc­cess­ful­ly rein­ter­viewed for re­newed three-year con­tracts last year.

The Gov­ern­ment has blocked ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion about re­port­ed Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, re­fus­ing to re­lease avi­a­tion records and in­vok­ing sweep­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­emp­tions, even as in­ter­na­tion­al re­ports, pub­lic avi­a­tion da­ta and the Gov­ern­ment’s own past ad­mis­sions point to US mil­i­tary move­ment through this coun­try.