The po­ten­tial for fu­ture col­lab­o­ra­tion in this coun­try’s down­stream gas in­dus­try was part of dis­cus­sions re­cent­ly be­tween high lev­el of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries and Methanex Trinidad Lim­it­ed.

Del­e­ga­tions from Rus­sia and Ukraine end­ed their lat­est peace talks Mon­day in Turkey af­ter just over an hour, Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy and Russ­ian state me­dia said.

The search is con­tin­u­ing for per­sons miss­ing and feared dead af­ter a boat cap­sized near the Tapoekoe/Bam­boe­si area in the Marow­i­jne dis­trict in the Al­bi­na re­sort. All those on the boat are from French Guiana.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 47-year-old Bel­mont man af­ter they al­leged­ly found a loaded firearm and am­mu­ni­tion in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Sun­day 1st June 2025.

An Is­raeli strike on a res­i­den­tial build­ing in the Gaza Strip on Mon­day killed 14 peo­ple, most­ly women and chil­dren, ac­cord­ing to health of­fi­cials.

Ja­maican dance­hall star Adid­ja "Vy­bz Kar­tel" Palmer is blam­ing the pro­mot­er of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val for the fi­as­co that led to him pulling out of the event hours be­fore it was sched­uled to kick off due to a con­trac­tu­al dis­agree­ment.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo says he is in­trigued by the amount of for­eign ex­change be­ing men­tioned in re­la­tion to pay­ment fees for artistes in­volved in the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val and has re­quest­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion. This, even as the neg­a­tive fall­out from Adid­ja “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer and oth­er for­eign acts pulling out of the event con­tin­ued yes­ter­day.

Months of an­tic­i­pa­tion and plan­ning came to an an­ti-cli­mac­tic end yes­ter­day morn­ing, as scores of pa­trons of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val left the show’s venue—the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain—in no­tice­ably low­er spir­its than when they ar­rived.

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin says he ex­pects a re­port in­to an in­ci­dent in which of­fi­cers were caught on video beat­ing a man dur­ing the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val by the end of to­day.

A rel­a­tive of the po­lice of­fi­cer in­volved in the shoot­ing death of a 74-year-old man in Mt St George, is now plead­ing with the pub­lic to al­low the po­lice to do their job and let the full truth come out.

Two po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists agree that the Gov­ern­ment should fo­cus on di­ver­si­fy­ing the econ­o­my in their first 100 days in of­fice, even as they work on the mid-term Bud­get re­view, to find ways to de­liv­er on their many cam­paign promis­es.

The Gov­ern­ment is aim­ing to slash T&T’s hefty US$2.5 bil­lion food im­port bill by ramp­ing up agri­cul­tur­al ex­ports, with a tar­get of earn­ing TT$1 bil­lion through the sale of agri­cul­tur­al com­modi­ties to for­eign mar­kets.