The country mourned the passing of 38-year-old singer Ricardo Drue; residents of neighbouring communities organised an event in Port of Spain to celebrate and honour his life and recognise his contribution to the Caribbean entertainment industry

Trinidad and Tobago became the first Caribbean country to adopt a real-time payments platform similar to India's Unified Payments Interface after agreement between the National Payments Corporation of India and the Ministry of Digital Transformation

NPCI International Payments Ltd, a company dedicated to implementing UPI outside India, has partnered with Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Digital Transformation to develop a real-time payments system

Trinidad and Tobago's men's hockey team won the 2024 Pan American Challenge and qualified for the 2025 Pan American Cup in Uruguay

Christopher Columbus and other colonial-era figures were scrutinised in a lengthy debate in a small auditorium in Port of Spain, after the government asked residents if they wanted statues, signs and monuments related to the colonial period removed