The re­cent ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion by the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ) on states’ le­gal oblig­a­tions to ad­dress cli­mate change is shap­ing con­ver­sa­tions at COP30, ac­cord­ing to Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) ne­go­tia­tor Car­lon Men­doza.

While it is the opin­ion of many that the an­nu­al Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties is just idle talk, it still serves as a plat­form for the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) to voice their con­cerns and de­mand ac­count­abil­i­ty for the cli­mate cri­sis. Yes­ter­day, Guardian Me­dia spoke with Una­May Gor­don, who func­tions in many roles in the re­gion—Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) Ad­vi­sor, a mem­ber of the Be­lize del­e­ga­tion for COP30, and co-fa­cil­i­ta­tor for the agri­cul­ture dis­cus­sions on be­half of Be­lize. She af­firmed, “I was at COP 6, which was my first COP, and I can say that progress has been made. Al­so, we can say old talk, but if we are not at the ta­ble fight­ing for what we are fight­ing for, then we al­low the de­ci­sions to be made for us, and the de­ci­sions are not al­ways in our favour.”

Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion are call­ing for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress de­plorable con­di­tions at their sta­tion, claim­ing re­peat­ed com­plaints to se­nior of­fi­cers have been ig­nored for years.

A for­mer man­ag­er at the Reg­u­lat­ed In­dus­tries Com­mis­sion (RIC) has re­ceived a life­line in her bid to pur­sue a wrong­ful ter­mi­na­tion case.

Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin said gov­ern­ment not stop­ping fetes but it is work­ing with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion to find al­ter­na­tive venues and cre­ate a more bal­anced, in­clu­sive Car­ni­val for 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Pro­mot­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPA) has con­demned the Gov­ern­ment’s sud­den ban on the use of UDe­COTT fa­cil­i­ties for so­ca and Car­ni­val-re­lat­ed events, call­ing it a de­struc­tive and short-sight­ed move that threat­ens to crip­ple the na­tion’s tourism and en­ter­tain­ment sec­tors.

A prison of­fi­cer is in cus­tody af­ter be­ing found with drugs and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items dur­ing a joint search ex­er­cise at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion are call­ing for ur­gent ac­tion to ad­dress what they de­scribe as de­plorable con­di­tions at their sta­tion, claim­ing re­peat­ed com­plaints to se­nior of­fi­cers have gone unan­swered for years.

Dis­graced fi­nancier Jef­frey Ep­stein wrote in a 2011 email that Don­ald Trump had “spent hours” at Ep­stein’s house with a vic­tim of sex traf­fick­ing and said in a sep­a­rate mes­sage years lat­er that Trump “knew about the girls,” ac­cord­ing to com­mu­ni­ca­tions re­leased Wednes­day.

Colom­bian Pres­i­dent Gus­ta­vo Petro or­dered his na­tion’s se­cu­ri­ty forces Tues­day to stop shar­ing in­tel­li­gence with the Unit­ed States, un­til the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion stops its strikes on sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers in the Caribbean, as re­la­tions de­te­ri­o­rate be­tween the na­tions that were once close part­ners in the fight against drug traf­fick­ing.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Ran­dall Mitchell has cau­tioned against what he de­scribed as the “re­duc­tion” of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­tur­al ex­pres­sion to mere “noise,” fol­low­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment of new mea­sures to curb noise pol­lu­tion, in­clud­ing a ban on all fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has or­dered an im­me­di­ate stop to all fetes at the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um, cit­ing per­sis­tent com­plaints from near­by res­i­dents about ex­ces­sive noise.