The fam­i­lies of five peo­ple, in­clud­ing a teenage girl, will be hop­ing that search and res­cue teams find their loved ones to­day, af­ter they went miss­ing at sea fol­low­ing a boat­ing ac­ci­dent off Staubles Bay, Ch­aguara­mas, on Sun­day.

Venezuela may be will­ing to en­ter­tain po­ten­tial part­ner­ships with the Caribbean, as the re­gion grap­ples with ris­ing elec­tric­i­ty costs and seeks to di­ver­si­fy its en­er­gy sources.

SYL­HET – West In­dies claimed their sec­ond Test se­ries of the year when their fi­nal Test match of 2026 against Bangladesh pe­tered out in­to a tame draw in Bangladesh on Mon­day.

When far away from home, there is of­ten a part of us that longs for even the small­est piece of fa­mil­iar­i­ty. That was how 28-year-old Aman­da Ar­joon felt when she first moved near­ly 9,000 miles away from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Up to a cou­ple months ago, the fu­ture of tech seemed to be a sure thing. The elec­tion of a US Pres­i­dent backed heav­i­ly by the “Tech Bros,” as if a set of racist white bil­lion­aires could take over black-speak, the rise in tech stock, the use of tech in ed­u­ca­tion and the mil­i­tary, the dra­mat­ic in­crease in AI da­ta cen­tres, the talk about how AI was about to rev­o­lu­tionise so­ci­ety, cul­ture, med­i­cine, the West In­dies crick­et team, sex, ca­lyp­so, etc etc, ap­peared to fore­tell a change in hu­man for­tunes if not val­ues.