Nes­tled in the north­east­ern coast of Trinidad, pil­lowed by ver­dant veg­e­ta­tion on land and blan­ket­ed by the surf of the Caribbean Sea, is the coastal com­mu­ni­ty of Matelot.

In­ter­Caribbean Air­ways will launch di­rect ser­vice be­tween Bar­ba­dos and Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on March 6, 2026. The Turks and Caicos-based car­ri­er con­firmed via so­cial me­dia that Port of Spain is among five new des­ti­na­tions to be ser­viced through its Bar­ba­dos hub, join­ing Tor­to­la, George­town, Sint Maarten, and the air­line’s home base in the Turks and Caicos. The air­line will op­er­ate four week­ly flights to Trinidad on Sun­days, Mon­days, Wednes­days, and Fri­days us­ing its ATR 42-500 fleet.

The in­ter­na­tion­al rat­ings agency, Moody’s, has up­grad­ed Ja­maica’s long-term is­suer and se­nior un­se­cured rat­ings to Ba3 from B1, chang­ing the out­look to sta­ble from pos­i­tive.

Two men are be­ing treat­ed for stab wounds af­ter they were at­tacked at bars in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents be­tween Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

A 74-year-old St Anns woman en­gaged in a brief car chase with a ban­dit who snatched her hand­bag which even­tu­al­ly led to him throw­ing it back to her on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty has is­sued a state­ment on a procla­ma­tion by the Gov­ern­ment of the Unit­ed States which places en­try re­stric­tions on na­tion­als of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and the Com­mon­wealth of Do­mini­ca.

As the San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School tri­umphed at the An­nu­al Jum­bo Pri­ma­ry Schools Chess Tour­na­ment 2025, calls have been made for the gov­ern­ment to sup­port chess de­vel­op­ment so that more chil­dren could get in­volved in the sport.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is now un­der­way in­to the theft of a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice­man's (SRP) per­son­al gun, af­ter he left his Po­lice Sta­tion's Christ­mas Din­ner ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing.

With the Gov­ern­ment hav­ing ful­filled its promise to pay back­pay to pub­lic ser­vants this week, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the re­main­ing out­stand­ing ar­rears will be set­tled in the new year in ac­cor­dance with the law.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art yes­ter­day con­grat­u­lat­ed the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and pub­lic ser­vants af­ter they re­ceived their ini­tial back­pay pay­ments from the Gov­ern­ment.

Hun­dreds of dri­vers and com­muters were treat­ed to a morn­ing of grat­i­tude, give­aways, and com­mu­ni­ty spir­it yes­ter­day as the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion held its first-ever Day of Ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned cit­i­zens against pub­lic at­tacks on the Unit­ed States, ar­gu­ing the crit­i­cism is hyp­o­crit­i­cal in a coun­try where over 350,000 na­tion­als have US visas or dual cit­i­zen­ship.