Home­own­ers gassed up gen­er­a­tors, filled bath­tubs with wa­ter and bought last-minute sup­plies along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Fri­day while Hur­ri­cane Isa­ias gained strength as it charged to­ward the beach­es of Al­aba­ma and the Flori­da Pan­han­dle.

A pow­er­ful mag­ni­tude 7.7 earth­quake struck Pana­ma on Fri­day morn­ing, shak­ing build­ings in the cap­i­tal, prompt­ing evac­u­a­tions and send­ing tremors as far as neigh­bor­ing Colom­bia.

Po­lice have con­firmed that on­ly one gun was re­cov­ered at the scene fol­low­ing last night’s po­lice shootout at Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, which left two sus­pects dead.

Res­i­den­tial fires in Trinidad and To­ba­go have in­creased by 15 per cent in 2026; fire­fight­ers are urg­ing cit­i­zens to take a clos­er look at every­day habits that could put their homes at risk.

The late Mighty Spar­row will be ho­n­oured with a na­tion­al Cel­e­bra­tion of Life on Oc­to­ber 16, with mem­bers of the pub­lic get­ting two op­por­tu­ni­ties to pay their re­spects ahead of the cer­e­mo­ny.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has im­posed sweep­ing new sanc­tions on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court as part of its cam­paign to dis­man­tle the tri­bunal over in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Unit­ed States and its al­lies, in­clud­ing Is­rael.

The Guyana Po­lice Force (GPF) has con­firmed that the Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Fizal Karim­baksh has been sent on leave pend­ing the out­come of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of rape and threat­en­ing be­hav­iour made against him.

The fa­ther of one of the sus­pects killed by po­lice in a shootout in Buc­coo, To­ba­go, on Tues­day night, has ac­cused of­fi­cers of mur­der­ing his son.

Flow has do­nat­ed $20,000 to the Na­tion­al Cen­tre for Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties (NCPD), with the con­tri­bu­tion gen­er­at­ed through an ini­tia­tive that linked six­es scored by the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) dur­ing the 2026 Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) to com­mu­ni­ty sup­port.

Turks and Caicos-based air­line In­ter­Caribbean Air­ways is set to in­crease its ser­vice to T&T from four week­ly flights to dai­ly flights.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has an­nounced an in­ter­im wa­ter sup­ply sched­ule for Point Fortin fol­low­ing an un­planned ser­vice in­ter­rup­tion caused by emer­gency re­pairs at the Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is tak­ing im­me­di­ate and sus­tained ac­tion to ad­dress re­ports of dis­coloured wa­ter af­fect­ing cus­tomers in some ar­eas.