CAS­TRIES: Prime Min­is­ter Philip J Pierre’s Saint Lu­cia Labour Par­ty (SLP) has cre­at­ed his­to­ry by se­cur­ing a con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, mark­ing the first time in a decade that a po­lit­i­cal par­ty on the is­land has achieved back-to-back wins.

Act­ing For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says if a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis un­folds in Venezuela due to po­ten­tial land at­tacks from the Unit­ed States, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­ready giv­en her com­mit­ment that Trinidad and To­ba­go will stand with the Venezue­lan peo­ple.

Hu­man rights ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa-Leon says Venezue­lans across the globe are hop­ing for a regime change in Venezuela.

Amid T&T’s role in cur­rent geopo­lit­i­cal is­sues and the re­cent US radar in­stal­la­tion in To­ba­go, the Cham­bers of the Greater Tu­na­puna, Greater San Fer­nan­do and Ch­agua­nas ar­eas have stressed that clear com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the State is need­ed to en­sure busi­ness and in­vest­ment re­main strong — and they have cit­ed con­cerns by some of their mem­bers and in­vest­ment col­leagues.

Apart from grow­ing pub­lic and vis­i­tor con­cern on T&T’s po­si­tion amid geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions, cruise ship op­er­a­tors have re­port­ed a sig­nif­i­cant re­duc­tion in pre-booked tours, in­clud­ing one ves­sel can­celling its To­ba­go call for this Fri­day.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — The White House said yes­ter­day that a Navy ad­mi­ral act­ed “with­in his au­thor­i­ty and the law” when he or­dered a sec­ond, fol­low-up strike on an al­leged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a Sep­tem­ber US mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion that has come un­der bi­par­ti­san scruti­ny.

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says that en­hanced tech­nol­o­gy and train­ing cour­tesy the US gov­ern­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly in deal­ing with crime-fight­ing, will be in­tro­duced to T&T.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne con­firmed that 24 ve­hi­cles were wrecked yes­ter­day, as en­force­ment re­sumed across the cap­i­tal’s busi­ness dis­trict.

En­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Dr Wayne Kublals­ingh and farmer Shi­raz Khan have suc­ceed­ed in a law­suit chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) to ap­prove a State hous­ing project near or on the site of the St Au­gus­tine Nurs­eries. 

A PH taxi dri­ver from cen­tral Trinidad has lost his ap­peal chal­leng­ing his con­vic­tion for aid­ing and abet­ting a group of men, who kid­napped, robbed and raped a woman over two decades ago.

A 63-year-old San Fer­nan­do woman is plead­ing for ur­gent help af­ter what she claimed has been four years of ter­ror at her home on La­dy Hailes Av­enue.

A 25-year-old woman claimed she was kid­napped, beat­en and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed by her chil­dren’s fa­ther dur­ing a ter­ri­fy­ing or­deal on Sun­day night.