In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to two mur­ders in Waller­field and Val­sayn be­tween last night and ear­ly to­day.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will in­ject an ad­di­tion­al $300 mil­lion in­to de­vel­op­ment projects next year, rais­ing its de­vel­op­ment bud­get to $501 mil­lion while keep­ing all oth­er spend­ing at 2025 lev­els.

As Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa moves in­to the At­lantic and be­gins to weak­en, res­i­dents of Ja­maica are strug­gling to com­pre­hend the ex­tent of the death and de­struc­tion she has caused.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has called on Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens to pre­vent the Unit­ed States from "start­ing a war in the Caribbean."

All eyes were on Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa over the past week as it gained at­ten­tion, ini­tial­ly due to its slow move­ment. How­ev­er, once the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre (NHC) in­creased the in­ten­si­ty fore­cast to a land­falling cat­e­go­ry five, me­te­o­rol­o­gists and oth­er ex­perts knew that this would be a record-break­ing, his­toric sys­tem.

KINGSTON - More than 25,000 peo­ple were packed in­to shel­ters yes­ter­day af­ter the storm ripped roofs off their homes and left them tem­porar­i­ly home­less. Dixon said 77% of the is­land was with­out pow­er.

Thou­sands of Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers took to the streets of Mi­ran­da on Tues­day, hold­ing plac­ards bear­ing the im­age of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and call­ing on her not to “de­stroy the peace” in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

Ex­cise du­ties on Cari­com-man­u­fac­tured malt bev­er­ages, beer, rum, cig­a­rettes and to­bac­co have been in­creased 100 per cent, match­ing the 100 per cent in­crease on lo­cal­ly man­u­fac­tured beer, rum and to­bac­co prod­ucts stip­u­lat­ed in the 2026 Bud­get.

Nu­trien is as­sur­ing work­ers that all is not lost as dis­cus­sions con­tin­ue with the Gov­ern­ment in their on­go­ing port fee dis­pute.

It’s pure BS! So said Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy leader Dr Roodal Mooni­lal yes­ter­day, as he ac­cused the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of be­ing be­hind so­cial me­dia al­le­ga­tions of is­sues with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s be­hav­iour and lead­er­ship of the par­ty—and he’s de­clared all UNC MPs are unit­ed be­hind her.

If TT up­sets its Cari­com part­ners, it could very dif­fi­cult not just to ex­pand, but to sim­ply sell in­to mar­kets that com­pa­nies and in­di­vid­u­als have spent a life­time build­ing re­la­tion­ships with, says In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Fran­cis Lewis.

For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has voiced strong con­cern over Venezuela’s de­ci­sion to de­clare Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar “per­sona non gra­ta,” con­firm­ing he raised the is­sue di­rect­ly with Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to T&T.