Cu­ba was left reel­ing Thurs­day af­ter a fierce Cat­e­go­ry 3 hur­ri­cane ripped across the is­land and knocked out the coun­try’s pow­er grid.

“Build the Wall” was Don­ald Trump’s ral­ly cry in 2016, and he act­ed on his promise by tap­ping mil­i­tary bud­gets for hun­dreds of miles of bor­der wall with Mex­i­co. “Mass De­por­ta­tion” was the buzz­word that en­er­gized sup­port­ers for his White House bid in 2024.

Re­pub­li­can can­di­date Don­ald Trump tri­umphed in the 2024 Unit­ed States pres­i­den­tial elec­tion on Tues­day, mark­ing his his­toric re­turn to the White House. Count­ing of bal­lots at the close of polls showed that Trump, a con­vict­ed felon, wres­tled away bat­tle­ground states from Vice Pres­i­dent and De­mo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­date Ka­mala Har­ris’ clutch­es to cap­ture a clear ma­jor­i­ty of elec­toral col­lege votes.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Don­ald Trump on his vic­to­ry in the Unit­ed States Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion, which took place on Tues­day. 

For­mer UNC min­is­ter and MP Jack Warn­er says he had ex­pect­ed Re­pub­li­can can­di­date, now Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump, to win Tues­day’s US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.

Close to a month af­ter his brazen ab­duc­tion by men dressed as po­lice of­fi­cers, Cunu­pia busi­ness­man Su­vesh Ram­nar­ine has been re­leased safe­ly. The 33-year-old is said to be rest­ing and in good spir­its with his fam­i­ly.

A Bel­mont man was killed dur­ing a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, while his girl­friend was in­jured and re­mained hos­pi­talised up to last night.

A 39-year-old man, de­scribed as a men­ace, has been fa­tal­ly shot by the po­lice af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked them with a cut­lass in Ma­yaro yes­ter­day morn­ing. He was iden­ti­fied as Gabriel Hink­son, 39, of Food Crop Road, Dou­ble Bridge, New­lands Vil­lage.

  Less than an hour in­to an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion, a po­lice con­sta­ble and an al­leged sus­pect were shot dead in Guapo on the out­skirts of Point Fortin.

Ex­perts in the en­er­gy sec­tor are warn­ing that T&T’s Drag­on gas agree­ment with Venezuela, up­on which T&T’s eco­nom­ic for­tunes de­pend, could be in jeop­ardy. They are now “un­cer­tain” about the fu­ture of the deal af­ter Don­ald Trump won Tues­day’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in the Unit­ed States, urg­ing T&T to adopt a wait-and-see ap­proach.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says To­ba­go looks for­ward to work­ing with US Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump and his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Busi­ness groups say Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert needs to fig­ure out how to make the process for ac­cess­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) for busi­ness pur­pos­es more trans­par­ent.