Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deeply root­ed cul­ture of dis­as­ter com­pla­cen­cy is now putting lives at risk, urg­ing cit­i­zens and state agen­cies to con­front a “new nor­mal” of un­pre­dictable cli­mate haz­ards threat­en­ing every com­mu­ni­ty.

A man from La Ro­maine has been sen­tenced to five years in prison with hard labour af­ter ad­mit­ting to be­ing in un­law­ful pos­ses­sion of two bul­lets. 

A Mt Hope man car­ried out a cit­i­zen’s ar­rest on Sun­day af­ter he man­aged to wres­tle away the gun from an armed in­trud­er and con­tact the po­lice while hold­ing the sus­pect, who is 46 years younger than him, at gun­point.

With the Christ­mas and Car­ni­val sea­sons ap­proach­ing, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Op­er­a­tions), Suzette Mar­tin, is as­sur­ing cit­i­zens that it is safe to shop and at­tend pub­lic events.

St Kitts and Nevis’ Min­is­ter of Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment, En­vi­ron­ment and Cli­mate Ac­tion and Con­stituen­cy Em­pow­er­ment, Dr Joyelle Clarke, says the Caribbean en­tered COP30 with a clear-eyed un­der­stand­ing of the up­hill strug­gle ahead. But she said they al­so come with equal de­ter­mi­na­tion to push for out­comes that re­flect the re­gion’s re­al­i­ties.

T&T took a sig­nif­i­cant step to­ward cli­mate re­silience yes­ter­day, host­ing the Na­tion­al Mul­ti-Haz­ard Ear­ly Warn­ing Sys­tem (MHEWS) Fo­rum at the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre. The event, themed “Build­ing a Re­silient Trinidad and To­ba­go Through a Com­mu­ni­ty-Cen­tred Na­tion­al Ear­ly Warn­ing Sys­tem”, brought to­geth­er key stake­hold­ers to fi­nalise a new strat­e­gy de­signed to pro­tect cit­i­zens against es­ca­lat­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal threats.

Two men from Pe­nal have been each grant­ed $250,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court charged with hu­man traf­fick­ing.

Pop­u­lar Port-of-Spain busi­ness­man Par­manan “Pan­cho” Yarna, a fa­mil­iar and beloved fig­ure in the cap­i­tal’s busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty, has passed away. 

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has pro­claimed three pieces of leg­is­la­tion that will take ef­fect on 17 No­vem­ber, mark­ing an­oth­er phase of the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­fort to strength­en Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fi­nan­cial-crime frame­work.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has warned that Trinidad and To­ba­go is at “grave risk”, ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of aban­don­ing the re­gion’s decades-old neu­tral stance and plac­ing the coun­try in the path of po­ten­tial mil­i­tary con­flict be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.

Garvin Med­era has re­turned to Dig­i­cel as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer for the At­lantic Re­gion, just weeks af­ter re­sign­ing from Caribbean Air­lines, where he served as the longest-serv­ing CEO in the car­ri­er’s his­to­ry.

Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica An­drew Hol­ness said to­day he wel­comed a CARI­COM Good­will Mis­sion to Ja­maica for a post-Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa tour. He shared the up­date on Face­book.