Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan has spo­ken out about the im­passe be­tween the Port Au­thor­i­ty and the the SWW­TU.

Be­lize is­sued trop­i­cal storm warn­ings for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can coun­try’s coast on Fri­day as Trop­i­cal Storm Sara stalled in the west­ern Caribbean, dous­ing Hon­duras’ north­ern coast with heavy rain.

An an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Cou­va and Freeport ar­eas on No­vem­ber 14 led to the seizure of firearms, cannabis, and the ar­rest of four men.

Two men were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a gun, am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis dur­ing two ex­er­cis­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Two peo­ple ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sarah De Sil­va at the High Court on Thurs­day, No­vem­ber 14, charged with cor­rup­tion and fraud-re­lat­ed of­fences re­lat­ed to a ve­hi­cle trans­fer. 

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) is at­tribut­ing pow­er out­ages that oc­curred this morn­ing at 6.55 a.m. to a load-shed­ding event on their sys­tem, stem­ming from is­sues with mul­ti­ple gen­er­a­tor units at In­de­pen­dent Pow­er Pro­duc­ers (IPPs) sup­ply­ing bulk elec­tric­i­ty to T&TEC.

Three weeks af­ter 46-year-old Jaime Mo­hammed went miss­ing, her de­com­pos­ing, head­less body was found in a bushy area in Siparia on Thurs­day. 

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) trade and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment min­is­ters will meet lat­er this month, the Guyana-based CARI­COM Sec­re­tari­at has an­nounced.

A top Iran­ian of­fi­cial pledged his coun­try’s un­wa­ver­ing sup­port for Lebanon af­ter talks Fri­day with Lebanese lead­ers on the on­go­ing war be­tween Is­rael and Hezbol­lah, which came as the Unit­ed States con­tin­ued ac­tive­ly push­ing both sides to agree to a new cease-fire deal.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Miss Uni­verse 2024 del­e­gate, Jenelle Thongs was award­ed Miss Con­ge­nial­i­ty dur­ing the pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion.

More than 200 po­lice of­fi­cers and mem­bers of the De­fence Force will be in San Fer­nan­do this Sat­ur­day for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed J’Ou­vert and Pan and Pow­der events.

While four of the coun­try’s lead­ing busi­ness cham­bers may have thought they were help­ing to re­solve the stand-off be­tween port work­ers and the Gov­ern­ment, their in­ter­ven­tion could have the op­po­site ef­fect.