Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) will add a US$15-25 fu­el sur­charge to all re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al tick­ets. The sur­charge will ap­ply per sec­tor and will be ap­plied to all tick­ets pur­chased on or be­fore April 10. Tick­ets bought be­fore April 10 will not at­tract the fu­el sur­charge. How­ev­er, tick­ets for flights be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go will re­main un­af­fect­ed.

Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment are con­ven­ing an ur­gent emer­gency meet­ing to­day to ad­dress an es­ca­lat­ing diplo­mat­ic rift sparked by Trinidad and To­ba­go’s for­mal protest over the man­ner in which the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Car­la Bar­nett was han­dled.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has fired back at Dr Ralph Gon­salves, say­ing his ref­er­ence to sea­sick­ness at the Cari­com Sum­mit in St Kitts and Nevis was said as a joke.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion or re­moval of Sean Sobers as Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs.

Tas­sa, iron and melody rang out at Clifton Hill Beach yes­ter­day, as Point Fortin MP Ernesto Ke­sar launched Point Fortin Bor­ough Fu­sion, al­though the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion is yet to launch the of­fi­cial Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young is ques­tion­ing whether Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is well po­si­tioned to en­gage Venezuela diplo­mat­i­cal­ly, rais­ing con­cerns about her stand­ing with that coun­try’s lead­er­ship and her past state­ments.

Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies Ser­vices Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has se­cured three ISO cer­ti­fi­ca­tions and is hope­ful the Gov­ern­ment will grant ap­proval for its part­ner, Maire Tec­n­i­mont, to un­der­take a US$50 mil­lion in­spec­tion study of the shut­tered Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin has re­ject­ed state­ments by Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen, de­scrib­ing as “false and mis­lead­ing” the sug­ges­tion that cor­po­ra­tions are pri­ori­tis­ing cul­tur­al events over con­trac­tor pay­ments.

A Vista­bel­la woman has told po­lice she en­dured more than six hours of al­leged abuse and ter­ror be­fore she shot and killed a close male rel­a­tive with his own firearm in­side their home on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it is pre­pared to act against its own of­fi­cers as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to five mem­bers de­tained un­der Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

Rel­a­tives of Mau­reen Os­borne are de­mand­ing jus­tice af­ter she was found dead on a burnt-out par­cel of land in Manuel Con­go, Ari­ma.

Two more po­lice of­fi­cers have been or­dered to be held un­der the pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders, bring­ing to five the num­ber of serv­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) mem­bers cur­rent­ly held un­der State of Emer­gency pow­ers.