About 600,000 Venezue­lans and more than 200,000 Sal­vado­rans al­ready liv­ing in the Unit­ed States can legal­ly re­main an­oth­er 18 months, the De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty said Fri­day, bare­ly a week be­fore Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump takes of­fice with promis­es of hard­line im­mi­gra­tion poli­cies.

Min­is­ter of Trade Paula Gopee-Scoon says the gov­ern­ment is com­mit­ted to the growth of the na­tion­al in­stru­ment, the steel­pan.

Six young en­tre­pre­neurs have been se­lect­ed as the 2025 Trinidad and To­ba­go co­hort of the U.S. De­part­ment of State’s Young Lead­ers of the Amer­i­c­as Ini­tia­tive (YLAI), as the pro­gramme marks its tenth an­niver­sary this year.

Earth record­ed its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the plan­et tem­porar­i­ly passed a ma­jor cli­mate thresh­old, sev­er­al weath­er mon­i­tor­ing agen­cies an­nounced Fri­day.

The 2025 Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) will take place from Thurs­day Au­gust 14 to Sun­day Sep­tem­ber 21. This win­dow has been agreed be­tween CPL and Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and once again there will be no clash with West In­dies in­ter­na­tion­al match­es.

Fire­fight­ers are hop­ing for a break Fri­day from the fierce winds that have fu­elled mas­sive blazes in the Los An­ge­les area, killing 10 peo­ple, oblit­er­at­ing whole neigh­bour­hoods and set­ting the na­tion’s sec­ond-largest city on edge.

Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro ex­tend­ed his in­creas­ing­ly re­pres­sive rule over Venezuela un­til 2031 when he was sworn in Fri­day, de­spite cred­i­ble ev­i­dence that his op­po­nent won the lat­est elec­tion and fol­low­ing protests against his plan to serve a third six-year term.

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump was for­mal­ly sen­tenced Fri­day in his hush mon­ey case, but the judge de­clined to im­pose any pun­ish­ment. The out­come ce­ments Trump’s con­vic­tion while free­ing him to re­turn to the White House un­en­cum­bered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

A pow­er­ful win­ter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Ok­la­homa lum­bered east­ward in­to south­ern U.S. states Fri­day, prompt­ing gov­er­nors to de­clare states of emer­gency and shut­ter­ing schools across the re­gion.

The Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) has dis­tanced it­self from the dis­rup­tions in ex­am­i­na­tion by Bar­ba­di­an stu­dents this week, say­ing that the mat­ter rests with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion there.

A 60-year-old at­tor­ney and her 67-year-old hus­band are the coun­try's lat­est mur­der vic­tims af­ter they were found dead at their Cu­mu­to home on Thurs­day night.

In a sin­gu­lar mo­ment in U.S. his­to­ry, Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump faces sen­tenc­ing Fri­day for his New York hush mon­ey con­vic­tion af­ter the na­tion’s high­est court re­fused to in­ter­vene.