The death toll from Wednes­day’s dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes in Venezuela has climbed to 920, ac­cord­ing to an up­date pro­vid­ed at 1.30 pm on Fri­day by Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­sem­bly, Jorge Ro­dríguez.

A Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing signed be­tween the Unit­ed States and Iran last week has giv­en the glob­al avi­a­tion in­dus­try its first re­al sense of op­ti­mism in over 100 days.

Trinidad and To­ba­go-born small for­ward Malique Lewis was se­lect­ed by the Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards with pick num­ber 30 (60th over­all) of the sec­ond round of the 2026 NBA Draft at Bar­clays Cen­tre in Brook­lyn, New York, on Wednes­day night. Hav­ing been se­lect­ed by Wash­ing­ton, Lewis was then trad­ed im­me­di­ate­ly to the Mil­wau­kee Bucks.

If the songs Bal­ance and Wah Yo Deh Pan by Ayet­ian are in heavy ro­ta­tion on your playlists, or even Valen­tine by Kalon­ji, then you’re al­ready fa­mil­iar with the work of a Point Fortin pro­duc­er who has con­sis­tent­ly been cre­at­ing dance­hall hits. Akiel Ri­ley, al­so known as Black­s­The­Man, con­tin­ues to blaze the trail.

The rainy sea­son had set­tled in­to Trinidad like an un­in­vit­ed rel­a­tive who say they com­ing for a week­end and still there three months lat­er. Every time the clouds gath­er over the vil­lage, some­body would pre­dict rain. Every evening some­body would still get wet.