The Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion‘s un­prece­dent­ed or­der to scale back flights na­tion­wide be­cause of the record-long gov­ern­ment shut­down took ef­fect Fri­day morn­ing, with some pas­sen­gers try­ing to fig­ure out back­up trav­el plans.

An oil spill forced the evac­u­a­tion of one fam­i­ly in Fyz­abad, but Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um’s swift re­sponse pre­vent­ed the oil from spread­ing to the Av­o­cat Riv­er. As a pre­cau­tion, the af­fect­ed fam­i­ly was re­lo­cat­ed to the Paria Suites Ho­tel in La Ro­main while cleanup op­er­a­tions took place.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Floyd Green has de­scribed the dam­age to the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor as “cat­a­stroph­ic” not­ing that it has de­liv­ered a crip­pling blow to farm­ers, fish­ers and rur­al com­mu­ni­ties whose liveli­hoods are now at ex­treme risk.

Sen­ate Re­pub­li­cans vot­ed to re­ject leg­is­la­tion Thurs­day that would have put a check on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s abil­i­ty to launch an at­tack against Venezuela, as De­moc­rats pressed Con­gress to take a stronger role in Trump’s high-stakes cam­paign against Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil has be­gun un­veil­ing its can­di­dates for the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion.

A fire de­stroyed three hous­es at Mela­jo Junc­tion, Ve­ga de Oropouche, along the To­co Main Road this morn­ing.

The In­sti­tute of Bank­ing and Fi­nance (IBF) turned the spot­light on its 2025 grad­u­at­ing class dur­ing its An­nu­al Vir­tu­al Grad­u­a­tion Cer­e­mo­ny yes­ter­day, high­light­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of cer­ti­fied fi­nan­cial ad­vi­sors poised to take on the chal­lenges of an evolv­ing, tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven fi­nan­cial land­scape.

Ty­phoon Kalmae­gi brought fierce winds and tor­ren­tial rains to Viet­nam on Fri­day, killing at least five peo­ple, flat­ten­ing homes, blow­ing off roofs and up­root­ing trees. In the Philip­pines, where the storm left scores dead ear­li­er in the week, sur­vivors wept over the coffins of their loved ones and braced for an­oth­er ty­phoon.

De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth on Thurs­day an­nounced an­oth­er dead­ly U.S. strike on a boat he said was traf­fick­ing nar­cotics in the Caribbean Sea.

Pres­i­dent of the new­ly formed Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) Nigel Tenia has warned that as many as 100,000 jobs across the con­struc­tion in­dus­try are at risk as quar­ry op­er­a­tors shut down op­er­a­tions over the Gov­ern­ment’s fail­ure to is­sue long-over­due pro­cess­ing li­cences.

For­mer chair­man of Stud­ley Park En­ter­prise Ltd (SPEL), David Walk­er, says the To­ba­go quar­ry has the ca­pac­i­ty to meet the de­mands of both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets, pro­vid­ed the right equip­ment is pro­cured.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is promis­ing 50,919 jobs on the way as she un­veiled an am­bi­tious Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print with a wave of in­fra­struc­ture projects.