The Caribbean Cat­a­stro­phe Risk In­sur­ance Fa­cil­i­ty (CCRIF) SPC has an­nounced a sec­ond pay­out of US$21.1 mil­lion to the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica due to the trig­ger­ing of the coun­try’s ex­cess rain­fall para­met­ric in­sur­ance pol­i­cy fol­low­ing Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa. This fol­lows a pre­vi­ous pay­out of US$70.8 mil­lion on Ja­maica’s trop­i­cal cy­clone pol­i­cy, bring­ing the to­tal re­ceived from CCRIF to US$91.9 mil­lion.

World lead­ers who de­scend­ed on the Unit­ed Na­tions an­nu­al cli­mate sum­mit in Brazil on Thurs­day on­ly need­ed to look out their air­plane win­dows to sense the un­fath­omable stakes.

A light­ning strike is be­lieved to have caused the pow­er out­age at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) on Thurs­day af­ter­noon, ac­cord­ing to North-Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Pho­to: The Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion an­nounced Wednes­day that it will re­duce air traf­fic by 10% across 40 “high-vol­ume” mar­kets be­gin­ning Fri­day morn­ing to main­tain safe­ty dur­ing the on­go­ing gov­ern­ment shut­down.

Of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion ar­rest­ed two per­sons and seized an AR-15 ri­fle and rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing two an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the San Fer­nan­do dis­trict on Tues­day.

A day af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro re­port­ed that a dra­mat­ic drop in the in­flux of il­le­gal drugs may prompt some per­sons to grow and cul­ti­vate their own prod­uct lo­cal­ly, a 56-year-old Ari­ma man was ar­rest­ed with the pos­ses­sion of a quani­ty of mar­i­jua­na plants.

Nu­trien Ltd has con­firmed that its 2025 ni­tro­gen sales fore­cast as­sumes “no ad­di­tion­al sales vol­umes from our Trinidad op­er­a­tions for the re­main­der of 2025.”

The Unit­ed Na­tions has launched a US$74 mil­lion fund to aid Cu­ba in the wake of de­struc­tion caused by Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

At­tack­ers fir­ing ma­chine guns and rock­et-pro­pelled grenades board­ed a tanker car­ry­ing gaso­line off the coast of So­ma­lia on Thurs­day, au­thor­i­ties said, like­ly the lat­est as­sault by resur­gent So­ma­li pi­rates op­er­at­ing in the re­gion.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment says it will an­nounce a se­ries of sup­port pack­ages to mem­bers of the pop­u­la­tion in­clud­ing a GUY$150,000 (One Guyana dol­lar=US$0.004 cents) cash grant for each fish­er­man and the re­moval of tax­es on key ma­te­ri­als used in the sec­tor.

A 47-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day to an­swer more than 50 charges of unau­tho­rised use of an ABM card, po­lice said.

The Break­fast Shed in Port-of-Spain, al­so known as Femmes Du Chalet, has re­opened fol­low­ing an in­ter­ven­tion by for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Robert Le Hunte, who wrote sev­er­al let­ters to var­i­ous in­sti­tu­tions on be­half of ten­ants.