$3.8B back pay
Posted: Friday, November 28, 2025

$3.8B back pay for public servants! CPO, PSA agree to 10% wage hike
After several hours of tense negotiations, the Public Services Association (PSA) and the Chief Personnel Officer (CPO) have reached an agreement on a ten per cent wage increase for public sector workers.

PM admits US military in Tobago, assisting with radar surveillance upgrades
One day after saying there were no United States Marines in the country, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar confirmed that a new radar is being installed by the United States in Tobago to monitor activities inside and outside Trinidad and Tobago.

Kamla flip-flops: Marines in Tobago for radar, intelligence operations
...PM: Radar monitoring to track traffickers at sea

Rumours of war and kinetic strikes

Opposition NDP sweeps Gonsalves' ULP out of power in St Vincent election

Ralph's long rule ends with NDP win
...Godwin Friday gets 9 of 15 parliamentary seats

IDB: Trinidad and Tobago had lowest remittances in Caribbean in 2025

Trump to 'permanently pause' migration from Third World nations

COVID, coughs and complacency

Cartel de los Soles: What it is, whether it's real and why T&T should care
On November 24, 2025, the US State Department moved to designate the so-called Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, a major escalation that treats the group not simply as a criminal network but as a narco-terrorist threat. The designation builds on years of US indictments and sanctions alleging that parts of the Venezuelan military and political elite have been implicated in large-scale drug trafficking and other crimes.

More steelbands lose state sponsors
San Fernando's Skiffle Bunch and Siparia Deltones are among more steelbands to lose sponsorship from state entities.

Obeah doh beat science
Another World Cup qualifying cycle is over and we will watch WC 2026 on television while other Caribbean countries participate. We debate who should be national coach, but the broader perennial discussion of "what we go do" resurfaces, ad nauseam, in the wake of this latest disaster. I have contributed to this debate for 30 years and continue now.

What happens to the children?

Two women held in Tobago for cocaine possession
Police seized cocaine and marijuana valued at more than $63 million in both Trinidad and Tobago this week in separate busts, and arrested two Trinidadian women at the ANR Robinson International Airport in the sister isle.

Suspect held for murder in Castara – Tourist stabbed to death
TOBAGO police are investigating the theory that an American tourist was knifed to death during a jealous fit of rage by a man who mistook him for someone else, on the night of November 26, in the pristine west coast village of Castara.

American tourist killed for nothing, in Tobago
Homicide detectives are investigating the killing of Christopher Brown, 43, who lived at Silverthorne, Colorado, USA. He was murdered in the village of Castara, Tobago on Wednesday night, in what residents believe may have been a case of mistaken identity.


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