Iran on Wednes­day dis­missed an Amer­i­can plan to pause the war in the Mid­dle East and launched more at­tacks on Is­rael and Gulf Arab coun­tries, in­clud­ing an as­sault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Heads of Gov­ern­ment have agreed to the reap­point­ment of Car­la Bar­nett as Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al, fol­low­ing de­lib­er­a­tions at their Fifti­eth Reg­u­lar Meet­ing held in Saint Kitts and Nevis from Feb­ru­ary 24 to 27, 2026.

The In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank Group (IDB Group) Wednes­day opened its first of­fice in the Unit­ed States out­side of Wash­ing­ton D.C., as part of ef­forts to ad­vance pri­vate-sec­tor-led de­vel­op­ment and strength­en the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion’s role in con­nect­ing glob­al in­vestors with op­por­tu­ni­ties in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC).

All eyes will be on To­ba­go on May 23 as free div­ing re­turns to the is­land for the open­ing of the Døds Div­ing League World Tour.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is ful­ly pre­pared to sup­port schools across Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath have as­sured that all is in place for the smooth con­duct of the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions, as thou­sands of stu­dents pre­pare to write the ex­am on Thurs­day.

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion ar­rest­ed and charged one per­son af­ter seiz­ing a ship­ment of mar­i­jua­na dur­ing rou­tine op­er­a­tions at a Port of Spain Cus­toms Bond­ed Area on Wednes­day, March 18, 2026.

As in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the mur­ders of San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra on March 13 and his em­ploy­ee Ron­dell Adol­phus, al­so known as ‘Patch’, days lat­er on Mon­day night, the Min­istry of De­fence says pro­tec­tive ser­vices re­main en­gaged to pre­vent fur­ther blood­shed.

Cuban medics work­ing in To­ba­go are urg­ing Gov­ern­ment au­thor­i­ties to give them in­de­pen­dent con­tracts to con­tin­ue work­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, even as they anx­ious­ly await word on their fu­ture with their ex­ist­ing con­tracts set to ex­pire in June.

Cari­com is mov­ing to dis­patch hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid to Cu­ba fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion tak­en at the re­gion­al bloc’s 50th Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment in St Kitts and Nevis. How­ev­er, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment has yet to spec­i­fy what re­lief items it will con­tribute to the ef­fort.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has dis­as­so­ci­at­ed it­self from calls urg­ing an end to the US block­ade of Cu­ba and to up­hold the re­gion’s Zone of Peace pol­i­cy, which were made in the Bo­go­ta De­c­la­ra­tion at the re­cent 10th Sum­mit of heads of state and Gov­ern­ments of the Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean States (CELAC).

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed a case of yel­low fever in a de­ceased Red Howler mon­key fol­low­ing lab­o­ra­to­ry test­ing. It is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that there are cur­rent­ly no re­port­ed hu­man in­fec­tions.