Co­me­di­an Ger­vail Sean Lemo, known as Jr Lee, has ex­pand­ed his per­for­mances to in­ter­na­tion­al stages, tak­ing his brand of Caribbean hu­mour to au­di­ences in Cana­da and the wider re­gion.

Po­lice Con­sta­ble Amon An­drews re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has again sus­pend­ed its rou­tine fore­cast prod­ucts and ser­vices at the Syn­op­tic (Fore­cast­ing) Branch due to a staff short­age.

The Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) is re­mind­ing the pub­lic of crit­i­cal safe­ty steps to fol­low when han­dling LPG cylin­ders, fol­low­ing re­ports of an ex­plo­sion that re­sult­ed in the death of Ria George.

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has wel­comed the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar and Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio re­gard­ing U.S. sup­port for the Drag­on Gas pro­pos­al.

Re­pub­lic Bank has ad­vised that it is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a tech­ni­cal chal­lenge with its teller sys­tem that has re­sult­ed in ser­vice de­lays at its branch­es.

The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment has hint­ed at the pos­si­bil­i­ty of changes be­ing made to the Eco­nom­ic Sub­stance Act, chang­ing the num­ber of ways in which the is­land moves from be­ing a nom­i­nal tax ju­ris­dic­tion to be­ing a pref­er­en­tial tax ju­ris­dic­tion.

Plunged in­to a gov­ern­ment shut­down, the U.S. is con­fronting a fresh cy­cle of un­cer­tain­ty af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Con­gress failed to strike an agree­ment to keep gov­ern­ment pro­grams and ser­vices run­ning by Wednes­day’s dead­line.

As this coun­try grap­ples with one of the high­est brain drain rates in the re­gion, the Trin­ba­go Di­as­po­ra Out­reach Net­work (TDON) is tak­ing steps to re­con­nect na­tion­als abroad with the event, Home­com­ing 2025.

Three months af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­clared the Drag­on gas deal “dead” —and five months af­ter re­vok­ing two Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cences to ex­plore the Drag­on and Cocuina-Man­akin fields in Venezue­lan wa­ters—the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment has re­versed its de­ci­sion.

Fol­low­ing his meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day, US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio’s of­fice re­leased the fol­low­ing state­ment:

The En­er­gy Cham­ber has wel­comed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment that US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio sup­ports the ap­proval of the rel­e­vant Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cences to be­gin dis­cus­sions with Venezuela to­ward de­vel­op­ing its cross-bor­der hy­dro­car­bons.