Prime Min­is­ter Philip J. Pierre has ex­tend­ed con­do­lences on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and Peo­ple of Saint Lu­cia to Venezuela fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes that caused sig­nif­i­cant loss of life and wide­spread de­struc­tion.

The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) has ex­pressed con­do­lences fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes that struck Venezuela on Wednes­day, leav­ing peo­ple dead and in­jured and caus­ing wide­spread dam­age to homes and in­fra­struc­ture.

World lead­ers re­act­ed Thurs­day with mes­sages of sol­i­dar­i­ty and of­fers of as­sis­tance af­ter two pow­er­ful earth­quakes shook Venezuela, killing at least 164 peo­ple, in­jur­ing more than 1,000 and trap­ping many be­neath col­lapsed build­ings.

The lat­est de­vel­op­ments in re­search and in­no­va­tion across sev­er­al crit­i­cal sec­tors are be­ing show­cased as the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) launched its in­au­gur­al Knowl­edge Week 2026 at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre in Port of Spain this week.

At least 164 peo­ple have died and 971 were in­jured af­ter a pair of pow­er­ful quakes rocked Venezuela, Act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez said Thurs­day, adding that res­cue teams are rush­ing to the hard­est-hit ar­eas to free peo­ple trapped un­der rub­ble.

A pair of pow­er­ful earth­quakes rocked Venezuela, tear­ing down build­ings, clos­ing the coun­try’s main air­port and send­ing pan­icked res­i­dents of the cap­i­tal pour­ing in­to the streets. At least 32 have died, the act­ing pres­i­dent said Thurs­day, warn­ing that the toll was ex­pect­ed to rise.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go has ex­pressed sol­i­dar­i­ty with Venezuela and of­fered as­sis­tance fol­low­ing a pow­er­ful earth­quake that struck off the South Amer­i­can coun­try's coast on Wednes­day.

Just 13 days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar en­dorsed a warn­ing by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that no seg­ment of so­ci­ety, in­clud­ing the so-called “one per cent,” was be­yond the reach of the law, the own­er of Blue Wa­ters Lim­it­ed, Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve, were ar­rest­ed by po­lice yes­ter­day.

A re­cent Unit­ed King­dom Home Of­fice re­port es­ti­mat­ing that 186 gangs with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,750 mem­bers are op­er­at­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go has reignit­ed dis­cus­sion about the coun­try’s crime sit­u­a­tion. How­ev­er, ex­perts are say­ing the doc­u­ment should be viewed with­in its in­tend­ed con­text.

Min­is­ter in the For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry Nicholas Mor­ris says the il­lic­it traf­fick­ing of firearms, nar­cotics and per­sons pos­es a sig­nif­i­cant threat to na­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and it is be­ing con­front­ed head-on.

The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion staged its an­nu­al City Day Pa­rade yes­ter­day, as part of cel­e­bra­tions mark­ing the city’s 112th an­niver­sary.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has threat­ened to sue Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land and a mem­ber of his law cham­bers over the rep­re­sen­ta­tion they pro­vid­ed in its bid to re­cov­er ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2.4 mil­lion in un­paid elec­tric­i­ty charges from ice cream man­u­fac­tur­er Fla­vorite Foods Ltd.