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.

Port-of-Spain: Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has crit­i­cised Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, ques­tion­ing the gov­ern­ment’s ap­proach to crime and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

A pair of Is­raeli strikes in Gaza’s south­ern city of Khan You­nis ear­ly Thurs­day killed five peo­ple, ac­cord­ing to hos­pi­tal of­fi­cials, bring­ing the death toll from airstrikes in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry over a rough­ly 12-hour pe­ri­od to 33. The strikes have been some of the dead­liest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-bro­kered cease­fire came in­to force.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has raised con­cern over the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to im­me­di­ate­ly re­strict all fetes and par­ties at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um and Jean Pierre Com­plex to a small set of days and hours close to Car­ni­val.

Co-founder and CEO of Life­time Roof­ing, Deb­o­rah Costel­loe, was in­duct­ed in­to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Con­trac­tors As­so­ci­a­tion’s Hall of Fame-2025 at its meet­ing on No­vem­ber 15 at the Radis­son Ho­tel.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the pres­ence of US war­ships and marines in this coun­try’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters and the wider re­gion has stopped gun and il­le­gal drug traf­fick­ers in their tracks — some­thing he says he is grate­ful for.