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.

Dozens of sol­diers and po­lice fanned out across a neigh­bour­hood on a re­cent night in the Turks & Caicos Is­lands just days af­ter the arch­i­pel­ago re­port­ed a record 40 killings this year.

Two men died af­ter a shoot­ing in Diego Mar­tin last night. Au­thor­i­ties iden­ti­fied them as An­fer­nee Eligon and Calvin Levine. A third man, wound­ed dur­ing the in­ci­dent, re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

Re­pub­li­cans have won enough seats to con­trol the U.S. House, com­plet­ing the par­ty’s sweep in­to pow­er and se­cur­ing their hold on U.S. gov­ern­ment along­side Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is call­ing for le­gal ac­tion against un­scrupu­lous peo­ple, in­clud­ing res­i­dents, whose un­law­ful ac­tions con­tribute to flood­ing.

Un­der heavy clouds, Wood­land res­i­dents pre­pared for pos­si­ble evac­u­a­tion as flood­wa­ters from the South Oropouche Riv­er Basin rose, spread­ing across the low­er plains and flood­ing homes.

It is a har­row­ing time for many Pe­nal res­i­dents as they grap­ple with heavy fi­nan­cial and sen­ti­men­tal loss­es in the af­ter­math of Tues­day’s tor­ren­tial rain. While some took ad­van­tage of the flood­ed rivers by fish­ing for cas­cadu­ra, sev­er­al el­der­ly peo­ple were forced to flee their homes.

TTUTA pres­i­dent Mar­tin Lum Kin has crit­i­cised the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, claim­ing it did not or­der the ear­ly dis­missal of schools in flood-af­fect­ed Pe­nal, leav­ing stu­dents and staff strand­ed in haz­ardous con­di­tions on Tues­day.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) lead­ers have used the on­go­ing flood­ing across the re­gion to press home their case for cli­mate fi­nance as the third day of COP29 closed yes­ter­day in Baku, Azer­bai­jan.