The Unit­ed Na­tions’ most im­por­tant cli­mate change con­fer­ence, COP30, will start this week in Belem, Brazil. As world lead­ers and ne­go­tia­tors dis­cuss the way for­ward in the cli­mate fight, Ja­maicans, Cubans, Haitians and Ba­hami­ans will con­tin­ue to pick up the pieces from what was left be­hind by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has sent an ad­vance team from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) to Ja­maica to as­sist in the re­cov­ery fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, with an­oth­er team set to fol­low soon.

A scuf­fle among sev­er­al men dur­ing a Hal­loween par­ty in Mal­oney in the ear­ly hours yes­ter­day left two nurs­ing in­juries at hos­pi­tal.

Pro­gramme Di­rec­tor of the Pro­gramme for Up­grad­ing Roads Ef­fi­cien­cy (PURE) Unit Hay­den Phillip is among nine of­fi­cials ex­pect­ed to be sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave from to­mor­row.

Fish­er­men in Ica­cos are call­ing for clar­i­ty af­ter the Coast Guard is­sued a di­rec­tive or­der­ing them to ply their trade with­in two miles from shore.

The rel­a­tives of a San­gre Grande man are ap­peal­ing for help in lo­cat­ing him af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing on Fri­day.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Garvin Heer­ah is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment a na­tion­al cri­sis man­age­ment plan, warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains un­pre­pared for emer­gen­cies rang­ing from nat­ur­al dis­as­ters to se­cu­ri­ty threats.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has sent an ad­vance team from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) to Ja­maica to as­sist in the re­cov­ery fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, with an­oth­er team set to fol­low soon be­hind. 

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a shoot­ing at a Hal­loween par­ty in Mal­oney that left two men hos­pi­talised ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a rob­bery in which a man was held up and his ve­hi­cle stolen af­ter ar­rang­ing to sell a PlaySta­tion 5 through Face­book Mar­ket­place.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of an uniden­ti­fied man’s body found float­ing in the sea off Con­ces­sion Dri­ve, Sealots, on Fri­day evening.

Po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter a body was seen off the coast of Sea Lots yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.