An el­der­ly Tri­ni cou­ple va­ca­tion­ing in Pana­ma were al­most tram­pled on yes­ter­day as a mas­sive 7.7 earth­quake caused pan­ic in the city.

A To­ba­go fa­ther is ac­cus­ing po­lice of mur­der af­ter his son and an­oth­er male sus­pect were killed in a po­lice shootout at Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, on Thurs­day night.

The suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing of the eight charges lev­elled against hair styl­ist Ka­ia Sealy, re­lat­ed to a fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Jan­u­ary which claimed the life of her part­ner Joshua Sama­roo, is set to go ahead as sched­uled lat­er this month. 

The trade union move­ment has post­poned its planned mass demon­stra­tion through Port of Spain from Oc­to­ber 16 to Oc­to­ber 23, out of re­spect for the late ca­lyp­so icon Mighty Spar­row, whose state-as­sist­ed fu­ner­al is sched­uled for Oc­to­ber 16.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he has struck a deal to ob­tain diesel from Rus­sia, a stun­ning re­ver­sal of years of U.S. pres­sure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an at­tempt to ad­dress high fu­el prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elec­tions.

Home­own­ers gassed up gen­er­a­tors, filled bath­tubs with wa­ter and bought last-minute sup­plies along the U.S. Gulf Coast on Fri­day while Hur­ri­cane Isa­ias gained strength as it charged to­ward the beach­es of Al­aba­ma and the Flori­da Pan­han­dle.

A pow­er­ful mag­ni­tude 7.7 earth­quake struck Pana­ma on Fri­day morn­ing, shak­ing build­ings in the cap­i­tal, prompt­ing evac­u­a­tions and send­ing tremors as far as neigh­bor­ing Colom­bia.

Po­lice have con­firmed that on­ly one gun was re­cov­ered at the scene fol­low­ing last night’s po­lice shootout at Gold­en Grove Road, Buc­coo, which left two sus­pects dead.

Res­i­den­tial fires in Trinidad and To­ba­go have in­creased by 15 per cent in 2026; fire­fight­ers are urg­ing cit­i­zens to take a clos­er look at every­day habits that could put their homes at risk.

The late Mighty Spar­row will be ho­n­oured with a na­tion­al Cel­e­bra­tion of Life on Oc­to­ber 16, with mem­bers of the pub­lic get­ting two op­por­tu­ni­ties to pay their re­spects ahead of the cer­e­mo­ny.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has im­posed sweep­ing new sanc­tions on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court as part of its cam­paign to dis­man­tle the tri­bunal over in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Unit­ed States and its al­lies, in­clud­ing Is­rael.

The Guyana Po­lice Force (GPF) has con­firmed that the Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Fizal Karim­baksh has been sent on leave pend­ing the out­come of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of rape and threat­en­ing be­hav­iour made against him.