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Oil spill fallout
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (259+ words) A satellite view of the oil spill from off the coast of South, Trinidad. State-owned oil com'pa'ny Her'itage Pe'tro'le'um says there is cur'rent'ly no ev'i'dence to sup'port the pres'ence of large amounts of hy'dro'car'bons in the sea, fol'low'ing an im'me'di'ate…...
Is this world war III?
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (788+ words) Giv'en the head'lines in 2026, it would be rea'son'able to ask, "Have we en'tered World War 3?" Mil'i'tary con'flicts have touched the Caribbean and Latin Amer'i'ca with Venezuela, Eu'rope, with Ukraine and the Mid'dle East with the Iran con'flict. There is al'so…...
Netanyahu and Trump are at odds over the war they started together
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (1081+ words) Is'rael's lat'est strikes on Lebanon and Iran have made clear that U. S. Pres'i'dent Don'ald Trump and Is'raeli Prime Min'is'ter Ben'jamin Ne'tanyahu, who start'ed the war in lock'step, want dif'fer'ent things. Trump had pub'licly warned Is'rael not to strike Beirut in its…...
PM stands firm on no-protest zones
1+ week, 3+ day ago (331+ words) Prime Min'is'ter Kam'la Per'sad-Bisses'sar says her Gov'ern'ment will not back down from reg'u'la'tions re'strict'ing ac'cess to 15 no-protest zones across Trinidad and To'ba'go, de'spite threats of le'gal ac'tion from a coali'tion of trade unions. The re'stric'tions were an'nounced short'ly af'ter protests…...
Higher oil prices a double-edged sword, expert says
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (437+ words) Sub'sidy costs and na'tion'al en'er'gy se'cu'ri'ty are un'der the mi'cro'scope as en'er'gy ex'perts An'tho'ny Paul and Car'olyn Seep'er'sad-Bachan warn that the es'ca'lat'ing war in the Mid'dle East'specif'i'cal'ly last week'end's mil'i'tary strikes by the US and Is'rael against Iran'has placed T…...
To tame the bullies
2+ week, 6+ day ago (425+ words) The most sig'nif'i'cant state'ment of de'sire which came out of the re'cent pres'i'den'tial sum'mits be'tween Chi'na's Pres'i'dent Xi Jin'ping and US Pres'i'dent Don'ald Trump, and that be'tween Bei'jing and Rus'sia, is Pres'i'dent Xi's call for a "mul'ti'po'lar world or'der. In…...
Saudi Arabia attacks Iran, UAE exits OPEC
3+ week, 4+ day ago (474+ words) In an un'prece'dent'ed move in Mid'dle East'ern af'fairs, both Sau'di Ara'bia and the UAE have at'tacked Iran di'rect'ly. The UAE al'so made the de'ci'sion to leave the Or'gan'i'sa'tion of Pe'tro'le'um Ex'port'ing Coun'tries (OPEC), which re'flects a sud'den shift in eco'nom'ic…...
UWI philosopher discusses biblical archaeology
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (630+ words) As the East'er sea'son ap'proach'es, many fol'low'ers of Catholi'cism and oth'er Chris't'ian de'nom'i'na'tions are in a pe'ri'od of fast'ing and re'flec'tion in prepa'ra'tion for the most im'por'tant event on the church cal'en'dar, Good Fri'day and East'er Sun'day. This year, I…...
Suspicious flight
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (819+ words) The Ukrainian aircraft on the tarmac at the Piarco International Airport's South Terminal yesterday. The crew of a Ukrain'ian air'craft, which land'ed at the Pi'ar'co In'ter'na'tion'al Air'port on Thurs'day night with sev'er'al tonnes of in'dus'tri'al ex'plo'sives on board, was al'lowed…...
Minister Ameen condemns assault on Port of Spain alderman Wayne Griffith
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (246+ words) Rural Development Minister Kadijah Ameen Min'is'ter of Rur'al De'vel'op'ment and Lo'cal Gov'ern'ment Khadi'jah Ameen has con'demned the as'sault of Port of Spain City Cor'po'ra'tion Al'der'man Wayne Grif'fith fol'low'ing the cir'cu'la'tion of a vi'ral video on so'cial me'dia. Grif'fith was at'tacked…...