A mere week af­ter Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro was oust­ed in an in­ter­ven­tion by the US mil­i­tary, there seems to be the be­gin­ning of a diplo­mat­ic thaw be­tween the US and the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela.

Lawyers rep­re­sent­ing for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alivin Hi­laire have stat­ed that they are anx­ious for his law­suit over his ter­mi­na­tion to go to tri­al. 

Af­ter walk­ing away from a fright­en­ing four-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion on the Gol­con­da Con­nec­tor Road, a truck dri­ver is warn­ing oth­er dri­vers to slow down and be re­spon­si­ble.

As the pub­lic grap­ples with the se­ries of gov­ern­ment no­tices that took ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026, traf­fic fines have drawn the strongest back­lash. Some cit­i­zens have said the in­creas­es came as a shock and de­scribed them as dras­tic. While the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has yet to pub­lish a com­pre­hen­sive list of all the changes, Guardian Me­dia cross-ref­er­enced the avail­able da­ta to com­pile the fol­low­ing list of fee in­creas­es.

Deputy Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Colm Im­bert has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of fir­ing 30,000 Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP), Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) and Reaf­foresta­tion work­ers to ac­cu­mu­late the $400 mil­lion to pay pub­lic ser­vants’ back­pay.

News­day has be­gun le­gal pro­ceed­ings to wind up its op­er­a­tions, sig­nalling the clo­sure of the news­pa­per af­ter 32 years.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Fri­day called on oil ex­ec­u­tives to rush back in­to Venezuela as the White House looks to quick­ly se­cure $100 bil­lion in in­vest­ments to re­vive the coun­try’s abil­i­ty to ful­ly tap in­to its ex­pan­sive re­serves of pe­tro­le­um.

Days af­ter TTUTA raised con­cern about an ap­par­ent in­ter­rup­tion in free coun­selling for teach­ers, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has made it clear that no user fees have been in­tro­duced for its Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAP).

Fla­va Vil­lage of­fi­cial­ly opened at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Thurs­day, in­tro­duc­ing a new cu­rat­ed culi­nary and cul­tur­al space aimed at ex­pand­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for ven­dors while en­hanc­ing the Car­ni­val ex­pe­ri­ence.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has sought to clar­i­fy the sta­tus of its Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme, as­sur­ing em­ploy­ees that steps are be­ing tak­en to main­tain ac­cess to psy­cho-so­cial sup­port ser­vices.

Po­lice seized and de­stroyed more than $7 mil­lion worth of cannabis dur­ing a se­ries of an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed across sev­er­al di­vi­sions on Wednes­day and Thurs­day.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has be­gun im­ple­ment­ing mea­sures to man­age the coun­try’s wa­ter sup­ply, fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of the start of the 2026 Dry Sea­son by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025.