Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA), Idi Stu­art, has called for wage ne­go­ti­a­tions for nurs­es to be con­clud­ed by Jan­u­ary or Feb­ru­ary 2026, de­scrib­ing the time­line as “non-ne­go­tiable.”

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) yes­ter­day an­nounced the re­lease of the con­sumer price in­dex (CPI) for No­vem­ber 2025, high­light­ing a mod­est in­crease in in­fla­tion and no­table shifts across sev­er­al cat­e­gories of con­sumer spend­ing.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Af­ter lead­ing the West In­dies Un­der-19s to se­ries wins over Sri Lan­ka and Eng­land, Joshua Dorne will cap­tain the side at next year’s ICC Crick­et World Cup.

The jun­ta which sup­ports Nico­las Maduro has shown great sol­i­dar­i­ty and re­sis­tance in the face of pres­sure of mil­i­tary might, diplo­mat­ic per­sua­sion, in­duce­ments and eco­nom­ic sanc­tions from the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion. Even a US$50 mil­lion boun­ty on Maduro’s head has yield­ed no at­tempts on his life, no be­tray­als so far, no signs of cracks at the top, nor like­li­hood of a han­dover of Maduro, nor his vol­un­tary sur­ren­der. The es­ca­la­tion to max­i­mum pres­sure by the US, in­clud­ing per­son­al sanc­tions against Maduro, his fam­i­ly and oth­ers close to him, and the seizure of an oil tanker car­ry­ing Venezue­lan crude to cut off rev­enue, is peak­ing to force com­bus­tion in­ter­nal­ly and to crack the will to re­sis­tance of the Venezue­lan pow­er elite.