An in­ci­dent in which a sev­en-year-old pupil of the Gas­par­il­lo Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School was se­ri­ous­ly in­jured may have been ac­ci­den­tal.

The coun­try’s mur­der count con­tin­ued to climb fol­low­ing the killing of a Co­corite man on Thurs­day night.

Fol­low­ing the dev­as­ta­tion by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, a ma­jor hur­ri­cane that se­vere­ly im­pact­ed east­ern Cu­ba, the coun­try is fo­cused on re­cov­ery and dam­age as­sess­ment, ac­cord­ing to Cuban Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and En­vi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Ar­man­do Ro­dríguez Batista.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says pre­lim­i­nary re­ports sug­gest the sev­en-year-old pri­ma­ry school stu­dent hos­pi­talised af­ter a school in­ci­dent may have been ac­ci­den­tal.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Gov­ern­ment will act in the best in­ter­est of the pop­u­la­tion if any con­flict were ever to arise in the re­gion, but stressed that spec­u­la­tion about war or regime change has no ba­sis in the facts pre­sent­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force will take part in joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es with the Unit­ed States 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit from 16–21 No­vem­ber, 2025. It was con­firmed dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has lost more than TT$30 bil­lion over the past five years be­cause of dis­sat­is­fac­tion and per­ceived de­lays in the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty’s process­es for ma­jor projects. It was con­firmed via a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, which said the fig­ure was dis­closed as a new Board of Di­rec­tors was ap­point­ed to the EMA.

A Co­corite man, iden­ti­fied as 41-year-old Johnathan Richard War­rick, was killed in a shoot­ing last night.

The Guyana Ex­po 2025 opened here on Thurs­day night with Pres­i­dent Ir­fan Ali an­nounc­ing a US$200 mil­lion ini­tia­tive that is set to be­come op­er­a­tional be­fore the end of the first quar­ter of 2026.

By the time Jef­frey Ep­stein plead­ed guilty in 2008 to so­lic­it­ing pros­ti­tu­tion from an un­der­age girl, he had es­tab­lished an enor­mous net­work of wealthy and in­flu­en­tial friends. Emails made pub­lic this week show the crime did lit­tle to di­min­ish the de­sire of that net­work to stay con­nect­ed to the bil­lion­aire fi­nancier.

A goal from Ja­maica’s Re­nal­do Cephas in the 53rd minute dashed T&T’s hopes of a qual­i­fy­ing chance at the 2026 World Cup in Cana­da, Mex­i­co, and the Unit­ed States, as the match end­ed in a 1-1 draw at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain last night.

​​It was so­ca ver­sus reg­gae at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, both on the pitch and in the sur­round­ing stands.