Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day that the U.S. has car­ried out a strike in the south­ern Caribbean against a drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel that de­part­ed from Venezuela.

He is the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Caribbean Chem­i­cal, a com­pa­ny found­ed by his fa­ther, Joe Pires Snr in 1966.

T&T se­nior men’s foot­ball team coach Dwight Yorke kicked off their prepa­ra­tions for their up­com­ing Group B Con­ca­caf Fi­nal Round 2026 World Cup Qual­i­fi­er against Cu­ra­cao at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Fri­day at 8 pm with a light train­ing ses­sion at St Mary’s Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, St Clair on Mon­day.

As T&T marks its 63rd year of in­de­pen­dence, the rhythms of ca­lyp­so and so­ca will take cen­tre stage in a spe­cial trib­ute con­cert ho­n­our­ing two of the art­form’s tow­er­ing fig­ures—Em­rold Phillip, bet­ter known as the Peo­ple’s Ca­lyp­son­ian Bro Valenti­no, and the late Ce­cil Hume, the trail­blaz­ing Mae­stro.

On his re­cent vis­it to our shores as part of his mul­ti-na­tion tour, In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Mo­di spoke of the im­por­tance of the “Glob­al South,” a ref­er­ence to BRICS, an in­ter­gov­ern­men­tal po­lit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic fo­rum of which In­dia is a found­ing mem­ber. Af­ter the BRICS sum­mit was held in Rio de Janeiro this Ju­ly, the lead­ers of these grow­ing economies joint­ly de­clared their “se­ri­ous con­cerns about the rise of uni­lat­er­al tar­iff and non-tar­iff mea­sures.”