The Cana­di­an In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Of­fice (CIPO) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Of­fice (TTIPO) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion on in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and deep­en­ing long­stand­ing re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries.

Ja­maica's Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and Peace Min­is­ter, Dr. Ho­race Chang, con­firmed on Wednes­day that Ja­maica is in ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Unit­ed States to ac­cept no more than 25 non-crim­i­nal third-coun­try na­tion­als and refugees.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says it is step­ping up ef­forts to com­bat van­dal­ism and theft tar­get­ing crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture af­ter a 42-year-old man ap­peared be­fore the courts in con­nec­tion with a stolen pipe in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Res­i­dents and busi­ness­es along Bil­jah Road and sev­er­al sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties in Cen­tral Trinidad are be­ing ad­vised to pre­pare for a sched­uled elec­tric­i­ty in­ter­rup­tion lat­er this month.

Caribbean Air­lines has an­nounced the in­tro­duc­tion of dai­ly non-stop flights be­tween Toron­to, Cana­da, and George­town, Guyana, ef­fec­tive 1 Ju­ly 2026, ex­pand­ing its re­gion­al net­work amid ris­ing de­mand for trav­el be­tween North Amer­i­ca and South Amer­i­ca.

The Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed (Na­tion­al En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed) has re­port­ed a net prof­it of TT$237 mil­lion for the six months end­ed 31 March 2026, sup­port­ed by strong un­re­alised fair val­ue gains across its strate­gic in­vest­ment port­fo­lio, and has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to a 90 per cent div­i­dend pay­out pol­i­cy.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has con­firmed the ex­is­tence of a “spe­cial pro­tect­ed list” that re­stricts its abil­i­ty to dis­con­nect cer­tain cus­tomers with out­stand­ing elec­tric­i­ty ar­rears, stat­ing that the mat­ter is now un­der le­gal re­view amid pub­lic con­cern over fair­ness and trans­paren­cy.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) says it has sought le­gal ad­vice over the ex­is­tence of a con­tro­ver­sial “pro­tect­ed list” of cus­tomers shield­ed from the nor­mal dis­con­nec­tion process for un­paid elec­tric­i­ty bills, as it ad­mit­ted there is no doc­u­ment­ed pol­i­cy, pro­ce­dure or record ex­plain­ing how cer­tain in­di­vid­u­als and pri­vate com­pa­nies came to be in­clud­ed on the list.

The in­ter­im deal be­tween the Unit­ed States and Iran is sup­posed to ush­er in a two-month pe­ri­od that would ad­dress the most di­vi­sive is­sue be­tween the long­time ad­ver­saries — Tehran’s nu­clear pro­gram.

Lead­ers at the Group of Sev­en sum­mit on Wednes­day threw their sup­port be­hind U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ten­ta­tive agree­ment with Iran to open the Strait of Hor­muz and fur­ther ex­tend a shaky cease­fire — even though nei­ther the White House nor Iran has pub­licly re­leased the text of the deal.

Cu­ba’s pow­er­ful Com­mu­nist Par­ty, or PCC, called an ex­tra­or­di­nary ple­nary ses­sion Wednes­day, days af­ter Pres­i­dent Miguel Díaz-Canel’s an­nounced an eco­nom­ic re­form pack­age aimed at open­ing up the strug­gling is­land’s econ­o­my.

Ka­ia Sealy has been grant­ed $700,000 bail up­on mak­ing her first court ap­pear­ance hours af­ter re­turn­ing to Trinidad from the Unit­ed States, this morn­ing.