Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez an­nounced to­day that the gov­ern­ment has pro­posed to Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro the im­me­di­ate de­nun­ci­a­tion of the En­er­gy Co­op­er­a­tion Frame­work Agree­ment with Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness has out­lined a mul­ti-lay­ered strat­e­gy for his coun­try’s quick re­cov­ery fol­low­ing the pas­sage of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa, which is ex­pect­ed to move over the coun­try on Mon­day night and ear­ly Tues­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her gov­ern­ment has reached out to Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness and is mo­bil­is­ing to pro­vide im­me­di­ate as­sis­tance in the wake of the dis­as­ter. Cat­e­go­ry 5 storm Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa is bear­ing down on Ja­maica and is fore­cast to be the one of the worst in the is­land’s his­to­ry.

Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed (NFM) has an­nounced the post­pone­ment of its 52nd An­nu­al Meet­ing of Share­hold­ers, which was orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 28, 2025.

Fol­low­ing the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment's state­ment yes­ter­day con­demn­ing T&T for al­leged­ly align­ing with the Cen­tral In­tel­li­gence Agency (CIA) to desta­bilise Venezuela, Venezuela’s For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Yván Gil in a state­ment on Mon­day urged T&T not to be dragged in­to "a dirty war."

A 6.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake struck the north-east­ern Caribbean at 8:38 am to­day, cen­tred 222 kilo­me­tres east of Guade­loupe at a depth of 12 kilo­me­tres, ac­cord­ing to the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre (UWI-SRC).

Amid fears of es­ca­lat­ing ten­sions in the re­gion and the ar­rival of a US Navy ves­sel in Port of Spain, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment has sought to down­play con­cerns about the Amer­i­can mil­i­tary pres­ence in the coun­try.

Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa in­ten­si­fied to Cat­e­go­ry 5 strength Mon­day as it neared Ja­maica with up to 30 inch­es (76 cen­time­tres) of rain and a life-threat­en­ing storm surge.

The wider Caribbean has of­fered to be­come in­ter­me­di­aries be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela amid their cur­rent height­ened ten­sions and the mil­i­tary build-up in the re­gion, which has trig­gered deep con­cerns about the threat of war, and has now prompt­ed moves to pre­vent it.

Venezuela has ac­cused Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Gov­ern­ment of be­ing un­der US con­trol and part of an ef­fort that could spark a full mil­i­tary con­fronta­tion against Venezuela. How­ev­er, the Gov­ern­ment has un­der­scored the rea­sons for the vis­it of the USS Grave­ly and stressed that it val­ues the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with the peo­ple of Venezuela.

The ar­rival of the USS Grave­ly in Port-of-Spain just af­ter 9 am yes­ter­day cre­at­ed a stir among cu­ri­ous on­look­ers, who still be­lieved it was not too late for the Gov­ern­ment to adopt a neu­tral po­si­tion in the ten­sions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela.

For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Rishi Sama­roo and Chad ‘Char­po’ Joseph, two Trinidad and To­ba­go men whose rel­a­tives be­lieve were killed in a US airstrike, may not be dead but could be miss­ing.