A dri­ver who struck and killed an uniden­ti­fied man on the Beetham High­way was robbed by ban­dits as he wait­ed for po­lice to ar­rive at the scene on Mon­day night.

The me­dia was not per­mit­ted to at­tend the fu­ner­al of at­tor­ney Ku­mari Baksh, 60, and her hus­band, law clerk Nasheed Baksh, 67, as the fam­i­ly sought to grieve pri­vate­ly fol­low­ing their trag­ic deaths.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has de­clared the start of the 2025 Dry Sea­son. In an of­fi­cial state­ment yes­ter­day, the TTMS said that the po­si­tion­ing and lo­ca­tion of sev­er­al large (syn­op­tic) scale at­mos­pher­ic fea­tures char­ac­ter­is­tic of the Dry Sea­son have been ob­served.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has of­fi­cial­ly de­clared the start of the 2025 Dry Sea­son as of Tues­day, 14 Jan­u­ary 2025.

The Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion on Tues­day is ex­pect­ed to lift the U.S. des­ig­na­tion of Cu­ba as a state spon­sor of ter­ror­ism, ac­cord­ing to U.S. of­fi­cials fa­mil­iar with mat­ter. The of­fi­cials were not au­tho­rized to com­ment and in­sist­ed on anonymi­ty to dis­cuss the yet to be pub­licly an­nounced move.

If the Is­rael-Hamas cease­fire deal goes ac­cord­ing to the cur­rent draft, then fight­ing will stop in Gaza for 42 days, and dozens of Is­raeli hostages and hun­dreds of Pales­tin­ian pris­on­ers will be freed. In this first phase Is­raeli troops will pull back to the edges of Gaza, and many Pales­tini­ans will be able to re­turn to what re­mains of their homes as stepped-up aid flows in.

The U.N. mi­gra­tion agency says in­ter­nal dis­place­ment in Haiti, large­ly caused by gang vi­o­lence, has tripled over the last year and now sur­pass­es 1 mil­lion peo­ple — a record in the Caribbean na­tion.

A po­lice of­fi­cer and a rel­a­tive were ab­duct­ed and robbed on Mon­day while trav­el­ling in Va­len­cia.

Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) po­lit­i­cal leader David Ab­du­lah an­nounced to­day that the par­ty will not con­test the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions. The MSJ will in­stead fo­cus on build­ing its ca­pac­i­ty to gov­ern ef­fec­tive­ly in the fu­ture.

Chi­na says it is will­ing to align de­vel­op­ment strate­gies with Grena­da, and ex­pand co­op­er­a­tion with the coun­try in such ar­eas as new en­er­gy, the dig­i­tal econ­o­my and the blue econ­o­my to en­hance Chi­na-Grena­da mu­tu­al ben­e­fi­cial co­op­er­a­tion.

Ryanair is call­ing on Eu­ro­pean au­thor­i­ties to lim­it the sale of al­co­holic bev­er­ages at air­ports across the con­ti­nent, as the Irish air­line con­tin­ues le­gal ac­tion against a pas­sen­ger who it says caused a cost­ly flight di­ver­sion last year.

Four mi­ni-bus­es, in­clud­ing two red band maxi taxis be­lieved to have been stolen were seized and two men ar­rest­ed dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in Ari­ma on Mon­day af­ter­noon.