The Unit­ed States Coast Guard on Wednes­day said the crew of the Coast Guard Cut­ter Tam­pa end­ed Fleet Week Fort Laud­erdale with the of­fload, at Port Ever­glades, of about 3,750 pounds of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na, worth an es­ti­mat­ed US$12.3 mil­lion, seized in the Caribbean Sea.

Af­ter months of tense ne­go­ti­a­tions, the U.S. and Ukraine signed a deal that is ex­pect­ed to give Wash­ing­ton ac­cess to the coun­try’s crit­i­cal min­er­als and oth­er nat­ur­al re­sources, an agree­ment Kyiv hopes will se­cure long-term sup­port for its de­fence against Rus­sia.

The Women’s In­sti­tute for Al­ter­na­tive De­vel­op­ment (WINAD) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on as­sum­ing the of­fice of Prime Min­is­ter.

Pre­lim­i­nary da­ta re­leased by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) fol­low­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion high­lights sig­nif­i­cant trends in vot­er en­gage­ment and par­ty per­for­mance across the coun­try’s 41 con­stituen­cies.

Dr Kei­th Row­ley, in one of his fi­nal acts as Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), has re­voked the ap­point­ments of Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly and Colm Im­bert as Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Lead­ers of the par­ty.

That was the mes­sage to the pub­lic from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Ari­ma MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son, who will be­come the par­ty’s Op­po­si­tion leader, af­ter a unan­i­mous Gen­er­al Coun­cil de­ci­sion yes­ter­day.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley says he, as par­ty leader, lost Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion and not out­go­ing PM Stu­art Young.

In a state­ment is­sued by its For­eign Min­istry yes­ter­day, the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed the vic­to­ry of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and con­grat­u­lat­ed Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stal­wart Fer­die Fer­reira has warned that the par­ty’s great­est mis­take was pan­ick­ing and se­lect­ing the wrong leader fol­low­ing its crush­ing 26-13 de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis says he will not re­sign, even as oth­er par­ty of­fi­cials have stepped down fol­low­ing the par­ty’s heavy de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be sworn in as T&T’s ninth Prime Min­is­ter at 4 pm to­day at Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s.

To­ba­go is brim­ming with op­ti­mism fol­low­ing a ma­jor po­lit­i­cal shift at the na­tion­al lev­el. With the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress de­thron­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment and new­com­er the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty cap­tur­ing both of the is­land’s seats, hopes are high for mean­ing­ful change.