Po­lice and prison of­fi­cers con­tin­ued search­ing late in­to Sat­ur­day evening for es­caped pris­on­er Ja­mal Joseph, who fled the Car­rera Is­land Con­vict Prison on Fri­day night.

The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion says of­fi­cers made four sep­a­rate nar­cotics seizures over the past week dur­ing rou­tine op­er­a­tional ac­tiv­i­ties.

The Unit­ed States says its mil­i­tary co­op­er­a­tion with the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force re­mains a key pil­lar of re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease is­sued to­day by the U.S. Em­bassy.

A video show­ing Erin fish­er­man Daniel Abra­ham be­ing tied and beat­en on the ground by Venezue­lan men has been sent to his fam­i­ly, in­ten­si­fy­ing fears for him and two oth­er fish­er­men who dis­ap­peared and were pos­si­bly kid­napped for ran­som in Venezuela. Rel­a­tives say the cap­tors are de­mand­ing US$40,000 for the men's re­lease. Fish­er­man Win­ton Taitt said US$18,000 was lat­er de­mand­ed.

Is There Not A Cause? (ITNAC) is spear­head­ing a ma­jor re­lief op­er­a­tion for Ja­maica and Haiti, where com­mu­ni­ties are still strug­gling to re­cov­er from the de­struc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, which slammed in­to parts of the north­ern Caribbean ear­li­er this month.

The labour move­ment is mourn­ing the pass­ing of Clifton Simp­son, the First Deputy Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), who died yes­ter­day at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal in To­ba­go.

Rus­sia un­leashed a ma­jor mis­sile and drone bar­rage on Kyiv ear­ly Fri­day, killing six peo­ple, leav­ing gap­ing holes in apart­ment build­ings and start­ing fires as the sound of ex­plo­sions boomed across the city and lit up the night sky. A preg­nant woman was among at least 35 peo­ple wound­ed, Ukrain­ian au­thor­i­ties said.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice says an in­mate was dis­cov­ered miss­ing from his cell at the Car­rera Con­vict Prison at about 8.32 p.m. on Fri­day No­vem­ber 14, 2025, dur­ing rou­tine checks.

Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers says the US Ma­rine Corps 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit (MEU) will be com­ing to this coun­try to take part in mil­i­tary train­ing ex­er­cis­es from No­vem­ber 16 to 21 with the lo­cal De­fence Force.

The Bo­li­var­i­an Al­liance for the Peo­ples of Our Amer­i­ca (AL­BA-TCP) has con­demned the re­cent mil­i­tary buildup by the Unit­ed States in the Caribbean, warn­ing it could “desta­bilise” the re­gion.

Two mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion are rais­ing sev­er­al ques­tions about the Gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment of joint train­ing ex­er­cis­es with the Unit­ed States 22nd Ma­rine Ex­pe­di­tionary Unit.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment was un­able to pro­vide an up­date on how yes­ter­day’s cau­cus went, even as the par­ty con­sid­ers whether to ask the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion to in­ves­ti­gate Hous­ing Min­is­ter Anil Roberts.