TrinidadAndTobagoNews

04/09/2025

LIFE in the predominantly fishing communities in Cedros appears to be continuing as usual, although they are expressing their concerns about the growing tensions between the US and Venezuela.

04/09/2025

CRIMINOLOGIST Darius Figuera says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar may have been misled by the US government, prompting her 'kill all traffickers' comments. He now warns the nation to prepare for a rougher road ahead.

“If you’ve bought in, lock, stock, and barrel, to a strike that doesn’t even validate the official word of the Trump administration, then you’ve bought into a con. The ride will get rougher before it gets any smoother. The road ahead will be bumpy,” Figuera said in a phone interview on September 3.

CRIMINOLOGIST Darius Figuera says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar may have been misled by the US government, prompting her 'kill all traffickers' comments.

04/09/2025

CARICOM foreign ministers will be writing to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, following a meeting of the group last week.

04/09/2025

Rubio has repeatedly threatened Venezuela if it “were to attack Guyana or attack ExxonMobil.” Though it is not the only oil company there, Guyana is ExxonMobil’s as much as the country was dominated by the British sugar giant Bookers in the 19th century.

As Ben Jacob put it, in a January 20, 2025 piece in the New Internationalist, “life-and-death decisions for the colony’s population were made from a boardroom in London.” Today, they are made in Houston and Washington.

For example, as far back as April 13, 2019, The Grayzone reported that the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a closed-door and unreported meeting with military officials, Trump circles, USAID, and opposition supporters on “Assessing the Use of Military Force in Venezuela.”

This was before Maduro escalated the border conflict between Venezuela and Guyana in 2023.

To justify US air and naval forces in and around the Southern Caribbean, US propaganda is pendulum-swinging between, on the one hand, the threat of Venezuelan drug cartels to the US and, on the other, Venezuela’s threat to Guyana.

04/09/2025

Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and In­for­ma­tion Fred­dy Nanez has dis­missed the video show­ing US mis­sile fire on a boat churn­ing across the sea in the south­ern Caribbean.

04/09/2025

As United States-Venezuela tensions continue to flare in the aftermath of a deadly American military strike on an alleged Venezuelan vessel in the southern Caribbean sea on Tuesday, the fishermen

04/09/2025

The Dominican Republic is set to host a historic milestone in its economic and logistical development with the arrival of Amazon as a Caribbean distribution hub.

For more: https://www.cnc3.co.tt/amazon-launches-caribbean-distribution-hub-in-dominican-republic/

04/09/2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary

04/09/2025

Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro has thanked the United States military for carrying out a strike on a vessel in the southern Caribbean suspected of transporting narcotics. He said he does not pity the 11 people who died on the vessel or anyone running afoul of the law.

For more: https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/cop-to-drug-runners-when-us-armada-comes-calling-i-wish-you-luck-6.2.2391894.eba4c253a4

04/09/2025

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar came under heavy fire from various quarters yesterday for her “kill them all violently” statement.

04/09/2025

With a US$50 million bounty for information leading to Maduro’s arrest or conviction—the highest ever issued by the US government, and twice that once offered for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden—regime change is an obvious goal of the US mission.

“I have no sympathy for traffickers, the US military should kill them all violently.”

03/09/2025

Our fight for racial justice doesn’t stop at the figurative “schoolhouse gate.” The school-to-prison pipeline is yet another way that Black and Brown bodies are funneled into negative interactions with law enforcement at a young age. Our fight for racial justice doesn’t stop at the figurativ...