More Than 100 Buildings Collpase
Posted: Friday, June 26, 2026

UN Reports More Than 100 Buildings Collpase In Venezuela Earthquakes
The quakes were so strong that they were felt in the Brazilian city of Manaus, in the Amazon, more than 1,000 miles to the south of Caracas, forcing people to flee their homes.

PM: T&T stands ready to assist
Thousands feared dead as twin quakes leave trail of devastation in Venezuela...

Venezuelans in T&T spend hours reaching out to relatives
More than 180 killed by massive quakes

Government offers support to Venezuela as Earthquake damage mounts

TT Government Ready To Help Earthquake Hit Venezuela

UN Working With Caribbean Governments To Help Earthquake Hit Venezuela

Caricom Sends Best Wishes To Venezuela

Prime Minister returns after attending funeral abroad

HADEED PROBE INTENSIFIES
69-year-old Westmoorings businesswoman arrested a day after
Blue Waters owner and wife detained

Agony over arrest of female member of another prominent business family

$6m bail for woman charged in alleged $20m fraud

Criminologist says UK report on T&T gangs credible
... but notes it was done within an immigration context

The rise of African nations
The game had changed. Borders still existed. Flags still mattered. National anthems would still play. But football, like the world itself, had become something larger than geography.

T&TEC threatens legal action against Scotland over $2.4M debt claim
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.

MP denies close ties with Monteil
Scotland on PM's T&TEC claims:

Why PCOS became PMOS—and why medical names matter
In the medical profession we often focus on diagnosis and treatment. But sometimes, the words we use matter just as much. A name can shape how a disease is understood, how quickly it is diagnosed and even how patients feel about living with it.

Woman with cerebral palsy faces ongoing leak in HDC home
A lifetime of overcoming cerebral palsy has taught Arlene Alexander resilience, but the 56-year-old now fears a recurring leak in her Housing Development Corporation (HDC) apartment could one day rob her of the independence she fought so hard to achieve.

Gunned down in insurance company parking lot
The victim was seated in a Honda Vezel sports utility vehicle, in the parking lot of an insurance company along Caroni Savannah Road, when he was ambushed at around 8pm.

Family in fear: Murdered 13-year-old laid to rest
The shooting occurred on June 11 at Tramline Road, Union Park East, in Marabella during what investigators believe was a robbery at the home of doubles vendors Krishna Khanhai and Leela Pariag.

Black Rock 'Batman' held after botched ATM heist
A Black Rock man was held by police yesterday in connection with the failed heist of a First Citizens ATM (automated teller machine) by five men who stole an excavator and used it to tear through a wall to get to the money-dispensing machine in Plymouth.

Police review CCTV, GPS data in missing businessman's case
A renewed search for missing Williamsville businessman Kelvin Samaroo has so far yielded no breakthrough, with relatives confirming that he remained unaccounted for up to yesterday as police and volunteer teams continued investigations across southern Trinidad.

Samaroo, 51, proprietor of Copy Rite Stationery Supplies in San Fernando, was last seen on Friday night along the Union Road, Marabella, according to police records and family accounts.


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