In Nobody’s Backyard: Open Letter Opposing US Military Incursions and Reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace

Yesterday, October 19, marked the anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada. Forty-two years later, regional sovereignty remains a vexed question in the Caribbean, and it is being put to the test by the current US military incursions that have...

QCinema showcases Quezon City’s strengths on its 13th year

THE QCINEMA International Film Festival returns for a 13th year with new sections and expanded programs. With the theme “Film City,” the festival will run from Nov. 14 to 23 and will feature over 80 films across 14 sections which will be shown in...

Prime Minister absent from Divali Nagar finale

News Yvonne Webb 5 Hrs Ago Dancers from the Bollywood Dance Company on stage at the Divali Nagar, Chaguanas, on October 16. - Innis Francis Amid heightened security concerns following a United States advisory to its citizens in Trinidad and...

Alexander buffs Scotland over ‘secret’ drones

News Sean Douglas 7 Hrs Ago Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander. - File photo MINISTER of Homeland Security Roger Alexander chided Port of Spain MP Keith Scotland for seemingly exposing details of six spy drones being acquired by the...

GSIS welcomes four new trustees, vows to uphold good governance

PASAY CITY– Four new members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) board of trustees, recently appointed by Malacañang, reported for their first day at the GSIS Head Office and met with GSIS president and general-manager Jose Arnulfo...

High Fire Danger Prompts Red Flag Warning for Southern Colorado on Monday

PUEBLO, CO — The National Weather Service in Pueblo has issued a Red Flag Warning for much of southern and central Colorado on Monday, cautioning residents that critical fire weather conditions could develop due to strong winds and very low...

"Warm storm" sets its sights on Colorado, with rain and snow late this week

Today’s Forecast: An area of low pressure will move from southern Nevada into Colorado over the next 12-24 hours, and it will bring some big changes to our forecast late this week. Rain and snow showers over the mountains this morning will spread...

Lamar Police Department recognizes Lamar High School DECA members Alexa Ridder and Mae Shelton for recent food drive to benefit Sparrow House Ministries

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2025 Heisman Trophy odds, Week 9 outlook: Contenders separate from pretenders in biggest shakeup of season

The second half of the 2025 college football season opened with a bang, and the combination of five top-25 showdowns and multiple upsets entirely reshaped the Heisman Trophy race. There was more separation between the top contenders and longshots...

Gusty October winds spark Red Flag Warnings across Colorado on Monday

Today’s Forecast: A strong jet stream presence will bring a very active weather day to Colorado on Monday. A High Wind Warning is currently in effect for the southern Sangres and Raton Mesa Region. Gusts on the eastern slopes this morning could...

Strengthening industrial resilience

Business Newsday 3 Hrs Ago FLASHBACK: An aerial view of the oil spill in Tobago in 2024. - Photo by Dayreon Mitchell Kirth A Regis As the world observes the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, commemorated on October 13, TT finds itself...

Tax hike$ unavoidable amid fiscal realities

EXECUTIVE chairman of EY Caribbean Wade George says that although higher taxes are never popular, the nation’s fiscal realities make them unavoidable. “Whilst few of us welcome the prospect of increased taxation, the realities of our fiscal...

Barbados ‘lacking PPP policies’

Government and the business community need to do more to facilitate and undertake investment projects using public-private partnerships (PPPs). That is the recommendation in the new Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report Catalyzing Capital:...

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

The decades of exploration in the Caribbean and Spanish encounters with indigenous peoples, and the use of enslaved labor in mining, would lead to the cultivation of critical crops—namely, sugar—that would soon come to be developed using enslaved...

Americas Paralympic Grassroots Project- Inclusivity and Awareness

The Amer­i­c­as Par­a­lympic Com­mit­tee, in con­junc­tion with CAF De­vel­op­ment Bank of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Par­a­lympic Com­mit­tee, pro­vid­ed an up­date on the Trinidad and To­ba­go leg of the...

Energy services and contractors’ contribution to T&T’s GDP

Over the past few weeks, we have high­light­ed the en­er­gy sec­tor’s con­tri­bu­tion to the econ­o­my of T&T. A vi­tal area of this sec­tor is the en­er­gy ser­vices sub­sec­tor, which con­sists of the many lo­cal and for­eign con­trac­tors that...

Unlocking the next generation economy

Business Newsday 2 Hrs Ago Andy Berahazar, chairman of Creative Arts, left; Colin Ramsey, partner Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR), Ernest and Young; Cheryl Bowles, founder of Cher-Mere; Sonji Pierre-Chase, president of TT Chamber; and Joe...

Azim Bassarath set for sixth straight term as TTCB President

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Azim Bassarath is poised to extend his remarkable reign over Trinidad and Tobago cricket, set to be re-elected president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) for a record sixth consecutive term. - Advertisement...

Hundreds of jobs on the line: Nutrien threatens shutdown over retroactive port fees

KEVON FELMINE Se­nior Re­porter kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien has re­ject­ed claims by the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Cor­po­ra­tion (NEC) that it owes sev­er­al mil­lion dol­lars in retroac­tive port fees,...

Christie: Mount Pleasant ready for semi-finals

SPORTING DIRECTOR of Mount Pleasant Academy Paul Christie says no effort will be spared to grab a first-leg victory when they face Defence Force FC of Trinidad and Tobago in the Concacaf Caribbean Cup semi-finals on Wednesday. The game, which will...