The Caribbean wel­comed 35 mil­lion vis­i­tors in 2025, ac­cord­ing to the Caribbean Tourism Or­ga­ni­za­tion (CTO), once again sur­pass­ing pre-pan­dem­ic lev­els. But did every vis­i­tor tru­ly feel wel­come in the re­gion? That’s the ques­tion Roni Weiss, the ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of Trav­el Uni­ty, a non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion work­ing to cre­ate a more di­verse and in­clu­sive trav­el in­dus­try, is putting to des­ti­na­tions.

For­mer PNM of­fi­cer Dane Wil­son be­lieves both Siparia Al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts and Diego Mar­tin Al­der­man Paul Na­hous — who switched from the NTA to the UNC in 2025 — should re­sign from their po­si­tions af­ter chang­ing their po­lit­i­cal al­le­giance.

Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram has promised to re­fur­bish the Ota­heite Fish­ing Fa­cil­i­ty, with ef­forts to re­store elec­tric­i­ty set to be­gin to­day while fund­ing is se­cured for ma­jor re­pairs.

The First Wave Move­ment has con­demned the crim­i­nal charges laid against Ka­ia Sealy, de­scrib­ing the pros­e­cu­tion as “a trav­es­ty of jus­tice” and call­ing for the im­me­di­ate with­draw­al of the charges.

UNC Coun­cil­lor Anil Bali­ram (Freeport/Chick­land) was in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a sus­pect­ed sui­cide at­tempt.

A 35-year-old man was shot and killed just me­tres away from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Philip­pine res­i­dence on Sat­ur­day night.

Su­san Lakhan-Bap­tiste, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Na­ture Seek­ers, said she has wit­nessed more than three decades of growth and trans­for­ma­tion with­in the non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tion, which she de­scribed as a mod­el of com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven con­ser­va­tion suc­cess.

Emo­tions re­main high in Good­wood af­ter Shan­non Miller, the step­fa­ther of two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias-Plaza, was charged with the child’s mur­der.

House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh has come un­der re­newed crit­i­cism from the Op­po­si­tion fol­low­ing a rul­ing that spared him re­fer­ral to the Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee over al­le­ga­tions of bias in his role as Chair­man of the Pub­lic Ac­counts and Ap­pro­pri­a­tions Com­mit­tee (PAAC).

Friends of Ka­ia Sealy and her late part­ner Joshua Sama­roo staged an­oth­er protest out­side the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing yes­ter­day, con­demn­ing the charges laid against Sealy, call­ing for a re­sponse from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and de­mand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro.

In the past few years, the Caribbean has been iden­ti­fied as the sixth re­gion of Africa with plans for greater con­nec­tiv­i­ty be­tween the re­gion and the con­ti­nent be­ing cham­pi­oned by nu­mer­ous groups on both sides of the At­lantic.

Ka­ia Sealy is break­ing her si­lence on manslaugh­ter and shoot­ing with in­tent charges to be laid against her, say­ing she is not a gang­ster, has nev­er owned a gun and re­mains in dis­be­lief over the en­tire sit­u­a­tion sur­round­ing the death of her part­ner Joshua Sama­roo and the in­juries she sus­tained.