Nu­trien Ltd has con­firmed that its 2025 ni­tro­gen sales fore­cast as­sumes “no ad­di­tion­al sales vol­umes from our Trinidad op­er­a­tions for the re­main­der of 2025.”

The Unit­ed Na­tions has launched a US$74 mil­lion fund to aid Cu­ba in the wake of de­struc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

At­tack­ers fir­ing ma­chine guns and rock­et-pro­pelled grenades board­ed a tanker car­ry­ing gaso­line off the coast of So­ma­lia on Thurs­day, au­thor­i­ties said, like­ly the lat­est as­sault by resur­gent So­ma­li pi­rates op­er­at­ing in the re­gion.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment says it will an­nounce a se­ries of sup­port pack­ages to mem­bers of the pop­u­la­tion in­clud­ing a GUY$150,000 (One Guyana dol­lar=US$0.004 cents) cash grant for each fish­er­man and the re­moval of tax­es on key ma­te­ri­als used in the sec­tor.

A 47-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day to an­swer more than 50 charges of unau­tho­rised use of an ABM card, po­lice said.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA), Idi Stu­art, says nurs­es will still gath­er to­mor­row at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, but not in protest, af­ter a meet­ing with the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) end­ed with on­ly par­tial progress on their con­cerns.

A sol­dier, who was shot by armed men dur­ing a rob­bery at his home in Ari­ma on Tues­day, re­mains hos­pi­talised in a sta­ble con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice in charge of Op­er­a­tions, Suzette Mar­tin, says there will be an in­crease in foot and mo­bile pa­trols for the up­com­ing Christ­mas and Car­ni­val pe­ri­ods, with em­pha­sis on high­ly pop­u­lat­ed ar­eas.

A Champs Fleurs cou­ple who went to view a car ad­ver­tised for sale in Chase Vil­lage was robbed of $80,000 in cash by two armed men on Tues­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment must work hard­er to en­sure peo­ple in the coun­try feel safer, and she as­sures that stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion will be brought to Par­lia­ment be­fore the end of this year, 2025.

Just a short dis­tance away from the pri­vate res­i­dence of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, a fam­i­ly was tied up, beat­en, ter­rorised, and robbed dur­ing a vi­o­lent ear­ly-morn­ing home in­va­sion on Tues­day. Fifty-three-year-old Vi­jay Ra­goo­nanan, a gar­den­er who was beat­en dur­ing the at­tack, said the or­deal has left his wife, Bet­ty Jagdeo, and their five chil­dren, ages sev­en to 23, deeply trau­ma­tised.

Res­i­dents of Hu­berts Town in Guapo say they are liv­ing in fear af­ter ban­dits in­fil­trat­ed their once-peace­ful com­mu­ni­ty. But po­lice are as­sur­ing them that mea­sures are be­ing tak­en to safe­guard the area.