Trinidad and To­ba­go is un­der a yel­low-lev­el ad­verse weath­er alert as scat­tered show­ers, per­sis­tent rain, and oc­ca­sion­al thun­der­storms con­tin­ue across the is­lands. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice is­sued the warn­ing to­day at 9:36 am, ad­vis­ing res­i­dents to re­main vig­i­lant.

Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty in ob­serv­ing World Chil­dren’s Day, fo­cus­ing on this year’s theme, “My Day, My Rights.” The day serves as a re­minder that every child car­ries in­her­ent dig­ni­ty, de­serves full pro­tec­tion, and has the right to ex­press their voice and shape their fu­ture.

Port-of-Spain: Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has crit­i­cised Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, ques­tion­ing the gov­ern­ment’s ap­proach to crime and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

A pair of Is­raeli strikes in Gaza’s south­ern city of Khan You­nis ear­ly Thurs­day killed five peo­ple, ac­cord­ing to hos­pi­tal of­fi­cials, bring­ing the death toll from airstrikes in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry over a rough­ly 12-hour pe­ri­od to 33. The strikes have been some of the dead­liest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-bro­kered cease­fire came in­to force.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has raised con­cern over the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to im­me­di­ate­ly re­strict all fetes and par­ties at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and Jean Pierre Com­plex to a small set of days and hours close to Car­ni­val.

Co-founder and CEO of Life­time Roof­ing, Deb­o­rah Costel­loe, was in­duct­ed in­to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Con­trac­tors As­so­ci­a­tion’s Hall of Fame-2025 at its meet­ing on No­vem­ber 15 at the Radis­son Ho­tel.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the pres­ence of US war­ships and marines in this coun­try’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters and the wider re­gion has stopped gun and il­le­gal drug traf­fick­ers in their tracks — some­thing he says he is grate­ful for.

One day af­ter a US Navy ves­sel was sight­ed by fish­er­men off the Gulf of Paria, a few miles away from Trinidad, many say that while they are cau­tious, they are not par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about on­go­ing mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in the south­ern Caribbean.

A Venezue­lan of­fi­cial is sug­gest­ing that Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s re­cent call for diplo­ma­cy should be di­rect­ed square­ly at the Unit­ed States, as the world’s largest air­craft car­ri­er ar­rived close to the coun­try’s bor­ders.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion has se­cured a meet­ing with Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin to­mor­row at a time and lo­ca­tion that has not yet been dis­closed.

Grand Chief of Moru­ga, Er­ic Lewis, says he is pre­pared to give his life to pro­tect and re­vive the tra­di­tions of T&T’s First Peo­ples, ar­gu­ing that al­though In­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ties have shaped the coun­try’s val­ues of hu­mil­i­ty, broth­er­hood, uni­ty, and to­geth­er­ness, they re­main “for­got­ten, side­lined and os­tracised.”

A po­lice con­sta­ble and a civil­ian have been re­mand­ed in cus­tody af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with the mur­der of live­stock farmer Vish­nu Lal­la.