In a dra­mat­ic re­ac­tion at the 29th Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP29) tak­ing place in Baku, Azer­bai­jan, the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) led by chair Cedric Schus­ter walked out on ne­go­ti­a­tions. How­ev­er, AO­SIS said in a state­ment yes­ter­day they re­main com­mit­ted to the glob­al mul­ti­lat­er­al process at COP.

Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon thun­der­show­ers re­sult­ed in flood­ing in sev­er­al parts of west and north Trinidad.

If the salary in­creas­es pro­posed by the Salaries Re­view Com­mis­sion’s (SRC) 120th re­port are im­ple­ment­ed, the state will pay more than $150 mil­lion in back pay. Guardian Me­dia cal­cu­lat­ed the back­pay to be paid for 118 of the of­fices re­viewed - if the SRC’s pro­pos­al was im­ple­ment­ed. 

With­in a week, four crim­i­nal mat­ters were dis­missed or dis­charged ow­ing to a lack of pre­pared­ness on the part of po­lice of­fi­cers.

Fif­teen in­di­vid­u­als were ar­rest­ed dur­ing a war­rant ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the South­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day. 

Pop­u­lar mas­quer­ad­er Ken­neth Lewis who was known decades ago as King Go­ril­la or Hawk­eye, died on Sat­ur­day, trapped in a fire that en­gulfed his home. 

Re­gion­al car­ri­er LI­AT 2020 will be ex­pand­ing its ser­vice to the British Vir­gin Is­lands ahead of the busy Christ­mas sea­son.

Is­raeli airstrikes Sat­ur­day killed at least 11 peo­ple and in­jured dozens in cen­tral Beirut, of­fi­cials said, as diplo­mats scram­bled to bro­ker a cease-fire.

One man is dead and two women were in­jured fol­low­ing a shoot­ing this morn­ing as their car was blocked on the high­way and gun­men opened fire on them in San­ta Rosa. 

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert says WIGUT’s de­mand for a 24 per cent salary in­crease, with back pay amount­ing to $701 mil­lion, can­not be met, since it will be a huge bur­den on tax­pay­ers.

The num­ber of guns leav­ing US ports bound for the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca has no­tice­ably in­creased over the past sev­en years, ac­cord­ing to a re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty up­date.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) South/Cen­tral Wayne Mys­tar as­sured that the po­lice will be close­ly mon­i­tor­ing do­mes­tic vi­o­lence vic­tims with pro­tec­tion or­ders.