Dig­i­cel Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced that all calls to Ja­maica are free of charge in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, which caused wide­spread dam­age across the is­land.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has tak­en ac­tion to stop the planned “Ca­roni Krab Dash – Flat Bot­tom and Small Boat Race” fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to its po­ten­tial en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact on the Ca­roni Swamp.

Sev­er­al po­lice of­fi­cers say they have not yet re­ceived their Oc­to­ber salaries and are call­ing for an ur­gent ex­pla­na­tion from the au­thor­i­ties.

A 15-year-old La Ro­maine High School stu­dent was hos­pi­talised in crit­i­cal con­di­tion on Tues­day af­ter he and four school­mates re­port­ed­ly in­gest­ed an un­known sub­stance.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has mo­bilised a co­or­di­nat­ed na­tion­al re­lief ef­fort to sup­port Ja­maica fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to two mur­ders in Waller­field and Val­sayn be­tween last night and ear­ly to­day.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) will in­ject an ad­di­tion­al $300 mil­lion in­to de­vel­op­ment projects next year, rais­ing its de­vel­op­ment bud­get to $501 mil­lion while keep­ing all oth­er spend­ing at 2025 lev­els.

As Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa moves in­to the At­lantic and be­gins to weak­en, res­i­dents of Ja­maica are strug­gling to com­pre­hend the ex­tent of the death and de­struc­tion she has caused.

Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro has called on Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens to pre­vent the Unit­ed States from "start­ing a war in the Caribbean."

All eyes were on Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa over the past week as it gained at­ten­tion, ini­tial­ly due to its slow move­ment. How­ev­er, once the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre (NHC) in­creased the in­ten­si­ty fore­cast to a land­falling cat­e­go­ry five, me­te­o­rol­o­gists and oth­er ex­perts knew that this would be a record-break­ing, his­toric sys­tem.

KINGSTON - More than 25,000 peo­ple were packed in­to shel­ters yes­ter­day af­ter the storm ripped roofs off their homes and left them tem­porar­i­ly home­less. Dixon said 77% of the is­land was with­out pow­er.

Thou­sands of Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers took to the streets of Mi­ran­da on Tues­day, hold­ing plac­ards bear­ing the im­age of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and call­ing on her not to “de­stroy the peace” in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.