With just weeks to go be­fore To­ba­go’s Jan­u­ary 12 elec­tion, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says vot­ers re­main di­vid­ed on whether it is even worth turn­ing out to vote.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go has apol­o­gised to court users who have ex­pe­ri­enced long de­lays in re­ceiv­ing judg­ments and de­ci­sions, ac­knowl­edg­ing the im­pact of those de­lays and com­mit­ting to de­liv­er­ing out­stand­ing mat­ters in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has ap­pealed to all road users to pri­ori­tise safe­ty dur­ing the Christ­mas and New Year hol­i­days, as traf­fic vol­umes in­crease across the coun­try.

With Christ­mas just hours away, ven­dors across To­ba­go say sales are com­ing in, but not at the pace they have grown ac­cus­tomed to.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has as­sured that school su­per­vi­sors and guid­ance coun­sel­lors who have not yet re­ceived their retroac­tive pay­ments will be paid by Jan­u­ary 2026, fol­low­ing com­plaints from Third Sched­ule of­fi­cers in the Teach­ing Ser­vice.

Just over 1,800 work­ers have been em­ployed by the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture fol­low­ing the na­tion­al re­cruit­ment dri­ve launched in Oc­to­ber, as the Gov­ern­ment moves to strength­en field op­er­a­tions and ac­cel­er­ate main­te­nance work across the coun­try.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) say they’re do­ing their best this Christ­mas to as­sist those who lost their jobs at the hands of the Gov­ern­ment.

With Christ­mas just one day away, some liquor busi­ness­es in South Trinidad are not in good spir­its, as al­co­hol sales have plum­met­ed un­der steep du­ties.

Min­utes af­ter cash­ing a cheque for $380,000 from a bank in Siparia for his em­ploy­er, a work­er was robbed at gun­point on Mon­day.

A Bam­boo man was robbed of $2,000 in cash dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Mon­day by sev­er­al men he be­lieved to be po­lice of­fi­cers.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are be­ing car­ried out in­to an at­tempt to ex­tort a Clax­ton Bay busi­ness­man, whose chil­dren and busi­ness were threat­ened if he re­fused to pay the mon­ey as de­mand­ed.

Two women were ar­rest­ed at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa, af­ter they were found at­tempt­ing to smug­gle mar­i­jua­na to an in­mate.