Sau­di Ara­bia said Fri­day it shut down a ma­jor pipeline a day af­ter it was at­tacked by drones, and Yemen’s Iran­ian-backed Houthi rebels cap­tured a strate­gic is­land at the south­ern en­trance to the Red Sea, two of­fi­cials said, open­ing a new front in the Iran war.

T&T In­sur­ance Ltd (Tatil) and Colo­nial Fire & Gen­er­al In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny Ltd (Colfire) are seek­ing to for­mal­ly com­bine their op­er­a­tions through a pro­posed amal­ga­ma­tion that will cre­ate a sin­gle le­gal en­ti­ty from Jan­u­ary 1, 2027, sub­ject to ap­proval from the Cen­tral Bank.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The South African duo of Chris Green and Quin­ton de Kock pro­duced match-win­ning per­for­mances to push the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents with­in one win of the Caribbean Pre­mier League play­offs via a nervy four-wick­et win over the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots on Thurs­day night.

Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

On Wednes­day, on the steps of the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­clared that she loves Venezuela’s in­ter­im Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez and looks for­ward to meet­ing her on the side­lines of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly lat­er this month.