Po­lit­i­cal leader of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA), Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus, has asked To­bag­o­ni­ans to be wary of what she calls “ham­per pol­i­tics”, where politi­cians dis­trib­ute food and favours to se­cure votes while ig­nor­ing the is­land’s re­al is­sues.

The mur­der toll rose to 97 yes­ter­day fol­low­ing three killings in two sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Diego Mar­tin and Cara­pichaima on Thurs­day night.

As emer­gency au­thor­i­ties and vol­un­teers in South­east Asia con­tin­ue to deal with the af­ter­math of a 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake which left hun­dreds dead and in­jured, the Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has con­firmed that no Trinida­di­ans were among those se­ri­ous­ly af­fect­ed.

Po­lice con­firmed yes­ter­day that they have not yet found the body of Joann Estick, but a sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with her mur­der. 

The St. Kits-Nevis gov­ern­ment Fri­day signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with the Nige­ria-based Green Eco­nom­ic Zone (GEZ) Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zone Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny for the es­tab­lish­ment of a state-of-the-art Agro Hub Ware­house and Lo­gis­tics Cen­tre on the Caribbean coun­try.

At its first board meet­ing of 2025, Trinidad and To­ba­go as­sumed the Chair­man­ship of the Board of Di­rec­tors of CAF – De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

The Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights, Volk­er Türk, Fri­day said that the hu­man rights sit­u­a­tion in Haiti has reached yet an­oth­er cri­sis point and called on re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing the me­dia “ to put the spot­light on this cri­sis, so that the in­tol­er­a­ble suf­fer­ing and de­struc­tion can end.

Dar­ryl White has re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect as the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer and re­gion­al vice pres­i­dent, of cor­po­rate and in­vest­ment bank­ing of RBC Fi­nan­cial (Caribbean) Ltd.

A pow­er­ful earth­quake rocked Myan­mar and neigh­bor­ing Thai­land on Fri­day, de­stroy­ing build­ings, a bridge and a dam. At least 144 peo­ple were killed in Myan­mar, where pho­tos and video from two hard-hit cities showed ex­ten­sive dam­age. At least eight died in the Thai cap­i­tal, where a high-rise un­der con­struc­tion col­lapsed.

The new new­ly ap­point­ed Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to Bar­ba­dos and the East­ern Caribbean, Ab­dulKa­dir Musse, is warn­ing of a dis­turb­ing surge in vi­o­lence against chil­dren in the re­gion.

A pow­er­ful earth­quake rocked Myan­mar and neigh­bor­ing Thai­land on Fri­day, killing at least three peo­ple in Bangkok and bury­ing dozens when a high-rise build­ing un­der con­struc­tion col­lapsed. Footage shared on so­cial me­dia from Myan­mar’s sec­ond-largest city showed wide­spread de­struc­tion, rais­ing fears that many were trapped un­der the rub­ble or killed.

For­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) St Joseph MP Kennedy Swarats­ingh, who de­buted on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' eco­nom­ic con­sul­ta­tion plat­form in St Joseph last night, has slammed cur­rent dif­fi­cul­ties in T&T and en­dorsed Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to be the next prime min­is­ter.