The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has made amend­ments to The Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment to the Ninth Sched­ule) (No 2) Or­der, 2024 specif­i­cal­ly as it re­lates to changes to traf­fic fine and de­mer­it point sys­tem, with a fo­cus on re­duc­ing penal­ties for cer­tain of­fences and es­tab­lish­ing new rules for dis­abil­i­ty park­ing per­mits.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) has ex­pressed deep con­cern about the tran­si­tion­al gov­er­nance process in its Mem­ber State, Haiti.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing par­ents, teach­ers and care­givers to look out for and mon­i­tor the be­hav­iour of chil­dren in their care, as many chil­dren suf­fer from the ef­fects of bul­ly­ing and oth­er trau­ma in si­lence—some­times lead­ing to them dy­ing by sui­cide.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has made amend­ments to the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act, low­er­ing some traf­fic fines and de­mer­it points.

Three sus­pects al­leged­ly in­volved in Wednes­day’s dou­ble homi­cide in Diego Mar­tin have been cap­tured, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

Hu­man Rights Watch said in a re­port re­leased Thurs­day that Is­rael has com­mit­ted war crimes and crimes against hu­man­i­ty in the Gaza Strip, in­clud­ing mas­sive, forced dis­place­ments that amount to eth­nic cleans­ing.

Ini­tial re­ports in­di­cate that around 5 p.m., of­fi­cers in an un­marked ve­hi­cle were re­spond­ing to a re­port when they came up­on a group of men, in­clud­ing Charles, near 7th and 8th Street, Tar­o­dale.

The World Bank says it has ex­pand­ed its life­line to Caribbean and oth­er small coun­tries strug­gling to re­build from dis­as­ters, al­low­ing them to post­pone loan and in­ter­est re­pay­ments af­ter a cat­a­stroph­ic event, so gov­ern­ments can fo­cus on re­cov­ery rather than pay­ing off debt.

More than 4,400 of Ja­maica’s en­ter­tain­ers and cre­atives have been giv­en ac­cess to life in­sur­ance.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is seek­ing the pub­lic’s help ur­gent­ly in lo­cat­ing San­gre Grande teen ES­THER TELES­FORD, who was re­port­ed miss­ing to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion on Oc­to­ber 30, 2024.

A Miss­ing Per­sons Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for a 16-year-old Moru­ga girl, who has been miss­ing for 21 days.

Mike Tyson wasn’t in the mood for talk­ing in the fi­nal news con­fer­ence be­fore the 58-year-old for­mer heavy­weight cham­pi­on faces YouTu­ber-turned-box­er Jake Paul.