Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has firm­ly de­nied claims that a para­mil­i­tary group en­tered Venezuela from Trinidad and To­ba­go, de­clar­ing the gov­ern­ment has seen no ev­i­dence to sup­port such as­ser­tions.

The UN Refugee Agency will per­ma­nent­ly close its na­tion­al of­fice in Trinidad and To­ba­go on 31 Au­gust 2025 due to glob­al fund­ing short­falls. The Port of Spain of­fice will stop serv­ing the pub­lic from 25 Ju­ly. All op­er­a­tions will be man­aged re­mote­ly by the UN­HCR’s Mul­ti-Coun­try Of­fice in Pana­ma, sup­port­ed by a min­i­mal staff pres­ence lo­cal­ly.

Of­fi­cials in some of the 12 coun­tries whose cit­i­zens will be soon banned from vis­it­ing the Unit­ed States de­nounced Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s move to res­ur­rect a hall­mark pol­i­cy of his first term and vowed Thurs­day to push back against the U.S.

The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da gov­ern­ment says it will ta­ble at the next sit­ting of Par­lia­ment, leg­is­la­tion aimed at ex­pung­ing the crim­i­nal records of in­di­vid­u­als con­vict­ed for pos­ses­sion of small quan­ti­ties of cannabis and grant­i­ng them of­fi­cial par­dons.

Fears mount­ed briefly with­in law en­force­ment cir­cles that se­nior Fraud Squad of­fi­cers and sen­si­tive case files may soon be dis­placed from their cur­rent of­fices on the sev­enth floor of the Min­istry of Fi­nance’s Wright­son Road build­ing. But Min­is­ter of Plan­ning Kennedy Swarats­ingh de­nies any­one will be dis­placed. 

A con­trac­tor is apol­o­gis­ing to Diego Mar­tin res­i­dents, who were af­fect­ed by a flood­ing, sludge and rub­ble on the week­end of May 18.

Ba­hamas Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis, an­nounced on Thurs­day the ac­ces­sion of the Com­mon­wealth of the Ba­hamas to the Re­gion­al Agree­ment on Ac­cess to In­for­ma­tion, Pub­lic Par­tic­i­pa­tion and Jus­tice in En­vi­ron­men­tal Mat­ters in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (“Es­cazú Agree­ment”).

Gov­ern­ments of 12 coun­tries whose cit­i­zens will be banned from vis­it­ing the Unit­ed States be­gin­ning next week scram­bled Thurs­day to un­der­stand Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s lat­est move to res­ur­rect a hall­mark pol­i­cy of his first term.

The U.N. food agency is ap­peal­ing for $46 mil­lion for the next six months to help about 2 mil­lion Haitians in dire need of food, in­clud­ing 8,500 at the worst cat­a­stroph­ic lev­el of hunger.

The Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led UNC Gov­ern­ment's thrust to in­tro­duce stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion has sparked de­bate among politi­cians and the pub­lic.

A new board of com­mis­sion­ers has been ap­point­ed to the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA).

Two WPCs were among four women ar­rest­ed dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing op­er­a­tion on Thurs­day, as po­lice launched a probe in­to an al­leged Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) scheme.