Long-await­ed en­er­gy dis­cus­sions be­tween this coun­try and Guyana will kick­start next year. This was con­firmed by Guyana’s Nat­ur­al Re­sources Min­is­ter, Vick­ram Bhar­rat, who is al­so in charge of the en­er­gy sec­tor in the South Amer­i­can na­tion.

Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer of the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, Faris Al-Rawi, says the “last-minute” change to the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to im­me­di­ate­ly re­strict Car­ni­val fetes and par­ties at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and Jean Pierre Com­plex to a lim­it­ed pe­ri­od was an­nounced with­out con­sul­ta­tion or tran­si­tion, and it threat­ens the in­come of thou­sands who de­pend on the Car­ni­val sea­son.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has re­mind­ed fete pro­mot­ers that they are still re­quired to com­ply with the Noise Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Rules (NPCR), even on cor­po­rate or pri­vate­ly owned prop­er­ties.

ANSA Bank has said that to­day’s rul­ing of the High Court rep­re­sents a vic­to­ry not on­ly for ANSA Bank, but for Trinidad and To­ba­go, as the court has con­firmed that fraud­u­lent acts and re­lat­ed con­spir­a­cy will be brought to jus­tice.

The 50-year-old of North Oropouche Road in San­gre Grande, was held by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU) this af­ter­noon.

Fire dis­rupt­ed Unit­ed Na­tions cli­mate talks in Brazil on Thurs­day, forc­ing evac­u­a­tions of sev­er­al build­ings and de­lay­ing al­ready slug­gish ne­go­ti­a­tions by most of a day with no ma­jor agree­ments even close. Of­fi­cials said 13 peo­ple were treat­ed for smoke in­hala­tion.

The Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica has an­nounced plans to es­tab­lish a Na­tion­al Re­con­struc­tion and Re­silience Au­thor­i­ty (NARA) to lead, co­or­di­nate, fast-track and over­see na­tion­al re­build­ing ef­forts in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

The Derek Wal­cott Li­brary at the Sir Arthur Lewis Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege in St Lu­cia has been of­fi­cial­ly in­scribed on the UN­ESCO Mem­o­ry of the World Re­gion­al Reg­is­ter for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

Miss Uni­verse Ja­maica, Gabrielle Hen­ry, is safe and re­cov­er­ing af­ter falling off the stage dur­ing the pre­lim­i­nary evening gown com­pe­ti­tion in Bangkok, Thai­land, on Wednes­day.

A 32-year-old San Juan woman died af­ter the ve­hi­cle she was in went over a cliff along the North Coast Road yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is un­der a yel­low-lev­el ad­verse weath­er alert as scat­tered show­ers, per­sis­tent rain, and oc­ca­sion­al thun­der­storms con­tin­ue across the is­lands. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice is­sued the warn­ing to­day at 9:36 am, ad­vis­ing res­i­dents to re­main vig­i­lant.

Trinidad and To­ba­go joined the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty in ob­serv­ing World Chil­dren’s Day, fo­cus­ing on this year’s theme, “My Day, My Rights.” The day serves as a re­minder that every child car­ries in­her­ent dig­ni­ty, de­serves full pro­tec­tion, and has the right to ex­press their voice and shape their fu­ture.