Be­lize Prime Min­is­ter John Briceño has thrown his sup­port be­hind CARI­COM Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett while crit­i­cis­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ab­sence from a re­cent head of gov­ern­ment meet­ing, de­scrib­ing the sit­u­a­tion as one that should be re­solved with­in the re­gion­al bloc.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has an­nounced that the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of T&T (NGC) record­ed a prof­it af­ter tax of $3.285 bil­lion in 2025, its high­est in 11 years, de­clar­ing the re­sult a sign of im­proved man­age­ment un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment has been work­ing con­sis­tent­ly—up to a March meet­ing—to have the UK visa im­po­si­tion over­turned, says For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers.

Nurs­es came out in their hun­dreds yes­ter­day to de­mand an in­crease in salaries, over­time rates com­pa­ra­ble to oth­er work­ers and to send a mes­sage to the Gov­ern­ment that they have had enough.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured that there is no health cri­sis in T&T at this time.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will make an of­fi­cial vis­it to Guyana fol­low­ing dis­cus­sions with that coun­try’s Pres­i­dent, Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, yes­ter­day, where both lead­ers agreed on a wide-rang­ing de­vel­op­ment, trade and eco­nom­ic agen­da aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana.

The sus­pect in the fa­tal jet ski ac­ci­dent, which claimed the life of An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie at the Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park on Wednes­day, re­mains in po­lice cus­tody.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a ban on all jet ski ac­tiv­i­ties near the pop­u­lar bathing ar­eas at Pi­geon Point, To­ba­go.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has is­sued a for­mal apol­o­gy fol­low­ing a breach of min­is­te­r­i­al pro­to­col in­volv­ing a so­cial me­dia ad­ver­tise­ment for a promi­nent lo­cal re­tail­er, Pen­ny­wise.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty has not con­firmed whether an emer­gency meet­ing of Heads of Gov­ern­ment, con­vened by Cari­com chair and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Ter­rance Drew, went ahead as sched­uled yes­ter­day, amid an es­ca­lat­ing dis­pute over the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Gov­ern­ment was forced to “eat hum­ble pie” fol­low­ing its de­ci­sion to for­mal­ly recog­nise Del­cy Ro­dríguez as in­ter­im Pres­i­dent of Venezuela.

A small busi­ness own­er from Rio Claro, who was gang raped by fel­low pris­on­ers while on re­mand for a crime he was framed for, has been award­ed a lit­tle over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion.