A new study by the In­ter Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) has found that Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean so­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment re­mains heav­i­ly bur­dened by crime and vi­o­lence.

The TTPS will not charge any­one for the death of Jay­den Lalchan cit­ing in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to prove bul­ly­ing played a role in his death.

The S&P 500 was up 0.3% in ear­ly trad­ing, com­ing off a 4.7% spurt last week spurred by Don­ald Trump’s pres­i­den­tial vic­to­ry and a cut to in­ter­est rates by the Fed­er­al Re­serve to bol­ster the econ­o­my. The Dow Jones In­dus­tri­al Av­er­age was up 338 points, or 0.8%, as of 9:35 a.m. East­ern time, and the Nas­daq com­pos­ite was 0.3% high­er.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has paid trib­ute for the 2024 Na­tion­al Day of Re­mem­brance, which ho­n­ours mem­bers of the armed forces who served and per­ished in World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945).

Tay­lor Swift came out on top at the 2024 MTV EMAs on Sun­day, walk­ing away with Best Artist, best U.S. act, Best Live Act and Best Video for “Fort­night” (fea­tur­ing Post Mal­one).

Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit has urged Do­mini­cans to stand up in sup­port of the Cit­i­zen­ship by In­vest­ment Pro­gramme (CBI), which he says makes a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to the so­cio-eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try.

Mex­i­co is fac­ing a sec­ond Don­ald Trump pres­i­den­cy, and few coun­tries can match its ex­pe­ri­ence as a tar­get of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the bor­der, im­pose tar­iffs and even send U.S. forces to fight Mex­i­can drug car­tels if the coun­try doesn’t do more to stem the flow of mi­grants and drugs.

Deep with­in the wind­ing roads of Las Lo­mas, tucked away in a hum­ble abode on Savary Road, live 65-year-old De­o­ra­jie Ougar and her 88-year-old moth­er, Rook­min. On the sur­face, their life can seem nor­mal, but when you hear of the strug­gles they con­tin­ue to face, you would un­der­stand that life has not been so kind.

There was a no­tice­able de­crease in the at­ten­dance at yes­ter­day’s mil­i­tary pa­rade for the 2024 Na­tion­al Day of Re­mem­brance in Port-of Spain.

Three teenagers were in­jured dur­ing a shoot­ing along Ari­api­ta Av­enue, Wood­broook, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Three men were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery that took place at the Suarez Broth­ers Cir­cus, En­deav­our Av­enue, Ch­agua­nas, on Oc­to­ber 29.

Griev­ing rel­a­tives of 36-year-old Ter­ry Aaron are pray­ing that the per­pe­tra­tors who snuffed out his life and in­jured his cousin dur­ing a shoot­ing at a bar in their neigh­bour­hood will be brought to jus­tice.