The Supreme Court on Fri­day unan­i­mous­ly up­held the fed­er­al law ban­ning Tik­Tok be­gin­ning Sun­day un­less it’s sold by its Chi­na-based par­ent com­pa­ny, hold­ing that the risk to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty posed by its ties to Chi­na over­comes con­cerns about lim­it­ing speech by the app or its 170 mil­lion users in the Unit­ed States.

There is no mil­li­pede in­fes­ta­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries (MALF).

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says Caribbean coun­tries will have ac­cess to the 20-va­lent pneu­mo­coc­cal con­ju­gate vac­cine (PCV20), which will help re­duce the bur­den of pneu­mo­coc­cal dis­eases, of­fer­ing greater pro­tec­tion for vul­ner­a­ble pop­u­la­tions, in­clud­ing chil­dren and the el­der­ly.

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter, Mia Mot­t­ley, has re­ceived one of Suri­name’s high­est na­tion­al awards for her ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion to the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two coun­tries, her lead­er­ship with­in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) and her com­mit­ment to the re­gion.

Hun­dreds of peo­ple were or­dered to evac­u­ate and part of High­way 1 in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia was closed ear­ly Fri­day af­ter a ma­jor fire erupt­ed at one of the world’s largest bat­tery stor­age plants.

Sev­er­al lo­cal and re­gion­al flights head­ing to North Amer­i­can des­ti­na­tions last night were forced to re­turn to their ports of ori­gin as falling de­bris from an ex­plod­ed SpaceX Star­ship forced the clo­sure of air­spaces.

Car­ni­val 2025 is ex­pect­ed to cost tax­pay­ers more than $140 mil­lion, Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man Win­ston Pe­ters has con­firmed. How­ev­er, in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Pe­ters said de­spite the sub­stan­tial bud­get, the NCC will not be in­creas­ing prize amounts for Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tions.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a so­cial me­dia video that pur­port­ed­ly shows a three-year-old end­ing the life of a pup­py. Yes­ter­day, the TTPS said it had tak­en steps to iden­ti­fy where the video was tak­en and con­tact the par­ents or guardians of the tod­dler.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the death of a 43-year-old work­er who was crushed by a Ju­nior Sam­my ce­ment truck at the com­pa­ny’s Clax­ton Bay work­site yes­ter­day.

Three of­fi­cials of Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed and Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (LM­CS) and the com­pa­nies have been giv­en over three months to de­cide how they want 15 charges un­der the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) Act re­lat­ed to an in­ci­dent in 2022, which claimed the lives of four LM­CS divers, de­ter­mined.

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has re­ceived 14 re­ports of mis­con­duct against po­lice of­fi­cers since the State of Emer­gency (SoE), was de­clared in this coun­try at the end of last year.

Po­lice con­duct­ed an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Point Fortin which tar­get­ed a man de­scribed by of­fi­cers as a pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er.