Cu­ba’s na­tion­al en­er­gy grid suf­fered a ma­jor fail­ure ear­ly Thurs­day that sev­ered pow­er to the is­land’s east­ern provinces, au­thor­i­ties said, as res­i­dents in the cap­i­tal Ha­vana faced on­go­ing black­outs.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has set­tled out­stand­ing Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) pay­ments with trade unions rep­re­sent­ing work­ers at the state util­i­ty com­pa­ny.

Op­po­si­tion MP Do­minic Ro­main has raised con­cerns over ap­point­ments linked to Land­mark­TT and ques­tioned the Of­fice of Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion’s (OPR) over­sight, while point­ing to al­leged po­lit­i­cal links with­in the state-owned de­vel­op­ment com­pa­ny’s man­age­ment struc­ture.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Caribbean tourism lead­ers are mov­ing to re­shape the re­gion’s tourism econ­o­my with a new push to build a re­gion­al lo­gis­tics and sup­ply chain frame­work aimed at keep­ing more tourism dol­lars with­in Caribbean economies.

A Mor­vant man was ar­rest­ed af­ter al­leged­ly open­ing fire on an­oth­er man out­side a bar on Ari­api­ta Av­enue be­fore lead­ing po­lice on a chase and shoot-out across Port-of-Spain in the ear­ly hours of Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Low­er House has passed ma­jor leg­is­la­tion al­low­ing peo­ple with mi­nor crim­i­nal con­vic­tions to have their records ex­punged af­ter a pe­ri­od of good be­hav­iour, ef­fec­tive­ly giv­ing them a clean slate.

When it comes to tourism, Be­lize’s goals are clear: the coun­try aims to be­come a “unique, au­then­tic, sus­tain­able, and com­pet­i­tive world-class des­ti­na­tion” by 2030. To do this, the coun­try de­vel­oped a Na­tion­al Sus­tain­able Tourism Mas­ter Plan (NSTMP), a 20-year strat­e­gy that guides in­fra­struc­ture, gov­er­nance, and in­vest­ment de­ci­sions, ac­cord­ing to Be­lize Chief Tourism Of­fi­cer Jo­sue Car­ballo.

George Stan­ley Beard, the vet­er­an To­ba­go politi­cian, tourism pi­o­neer and cul­tur­al ad­vo­cate cred­it­ed with help­ing shape the is­land’s mod­ern tourism and her­itage land­scape, has died.

A na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dent sparked by a gang mem­ber last Fri­day, trig­gered a high­er de­gree of pro­tec­tion of MPs in Par­lia­ment and cer­tain Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials had to be giv­en ad­di­tion­al pro­tec­tion, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie re­vealed yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West, Stu­art Young, yes­ter­day re­luc­tant­ly apol­o­gised to Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein for us­ing the pro­noun “she” in ref­er­ence to Ho­sein.

The Homi­cide Bu­reau is now part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­ap­pear­ance of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias in Good­wood, To­ba­go.

Ter­ror un­fold­ed in­side a Pe­nal home af­ter four masked men stormed the prop­er­ty and bru­talised two sis­ters, ages 40 and 57, along with their 14-year-old nephew, dur­ing a near­ly two-hour home in­va­sion.