The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is debating whether it should remove statues, signs and monuments with colonial ties and how those spaces should be used instead.

Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating.

Beryl strengthened into a new Category hurricane on Saturday afternoon and is forecast to strengthen into a Category 3.

Authorities say an offshore oil spill that led Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away.

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister says a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency.”.

Kwamé Ryan was hired as music director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina and given a four-year contract to start with the 2024-25 season.

Christian Pulisic and Tim Weah will miss the United States’ Copa América qualifiers against Trinidad and Tobago because of hamstring- injuries, joining captain Tyler Adams on the sidelines.

U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken says a multinational force is needed to help Haiti’s National Police as he echoed recent appeals made by United Nations officials who warn that the country’s insecurity is worsening.

Jesús Ferreira became the first American to score international hat tricks in consecutive games, and the United States advanced to the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals with a 6-0 rout of Trinidad and Tobago.

Canada captain Christine Sinclair says she’s confident the Canadian women’s national team will come to a last-minute pay agreement with its federation before the players depart for the Women’s World Cup.

For the last four years, Raj the Iguana Man, has been removing iguanas all around South Florida.

The last time the United States Men’s Soccer Team took the field for a World Cup qualifier, it produced one of the most humiliating moments in the program’s history.

No. 103 Trinidad and Tobago held 11th-ranked Mexico to a 0-0 draw in the opener of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the championship of soccer’s North and Central American and Caribbean region.

U.S. Soccer, Major League Soccer and the National Women’s Soccer League are joining a trial program to address concussions.

AdLewis scored his first and second international goals, and Miles Robinson got his first. Perea, who plays for Orlando, started for Colombia at the 2017 Under-17 World Cup and 2019 Under-20 World Cup. AdLewis put the U.S. ahead 1:40 in off a pass from Ferreira, and Ferreira doubled the lead in the ninth minute with a left-footed volley from 6 yards. 103 Trinidad played for the first time under coach Terry Fenwick, a defender from England’s 1986 World Cup squad, and for the first time since November 2019. T&T opens World Cup qualifying March 24 against Guyana and are favored to advance from a first-round group that also includes the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and St. Kitts and Nevis.

The travelers were all from Güiria, a town of about 40,000 people that is only a two-and-a-half-hour ferry ride away from Trinidad and Tobago. The fatal trip highlights a worsening migration problem that has increased tensions between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, with government officials and opposition leaders blaming each other. At least 23 people died in the attempt in early December, and more than a dozen remain missing. Bodies were found at sea or washed up on nearby beaches, and the search continues for those missing. More than 5.4 million people have fled Venezuela in recent years, the equivalent of 18% of the country’s population of 30 million.

MIAMI – President Donald Trump’s administration has deported Venezuelan migrants to Trinidad and Tobago, according to Sen. Robert Menendez. law forbids the forcible return of refugees to a place where their lives or freedom would be threatened," Menendez wrote. Trump recognized Juan Guaidó as the president of Venezuela, and he has imposed sanctions. Syracuse University’s Transactional Access Records Clearinghouse reports about 30 to 40% of asylum cases for Venezuelan refugees are being denied. The National Assembly elections are in December, but since Maduro excluded three of the four opposition political parties there is little hope for change.

NEW YORK The United States will open qualifying for the 2022 World Cup on the road next June, possibly back in Trinidad and Tobago where it was eliminated from reaching the 2018 tournament. The Americans will close their 14-match round in March 2022 at Costa Rica, where they have lost seven straight qualifiers. The Americans are among five nations with direct berths in the final round of qualifying known as the octagonal joined by Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Jamaica. CONCACAF had used the hexagonal for the final round of qualifying for the World Cups of 1998 through 2018. Canada headed six teams seeded into first-round groups that play a single round robin, with two games each in October and November.

The National Hurricane Center has been tracking a small tropical disturbance technically a tropical wave just east of the southern Caribbean islands. The tropical moisture channel feeding into that system has been just south of the Florida peninsula. The entire system the circulation and its moisture feed will slowly start to lift north later today, increasing the tropical moisture over South Florida. Our chance of heavy thunderstorms will increase a bit today, with the moisture plume arriving in earnest tonight. (CIRA/NOAA)The core of the moisture channel is forecast to be over South Florida tomorrow and Friday, meaning periods of heavy rain are expected.

CNN Weather(CNN) - Tropical Storm Karen formed just east of the Windward Islands and has sustained winds of 40 mph. A tropical storm warning has been issued for Trinidad and Tobago, along with Grenada and its dependencies. A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area, in this case within the next 12 hours. A tropical storm watch will likely be required for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands later Sunday, and tropical storm warnings may be issued for other areas in the Windward Islands later this morning. Karen will then approach Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Tuesday as a tropical storm.

LA BREA, Trinidad - The United States Naval Ship Comfort is still on a humanitarian medical mission aiming to treat as many Venezuelan refugees as possible. Earlier this month, the hospital ship sailed into the Gulf of Paria, an inland sea between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. Peter McIntyre, the Navy medical site coordinator, said the Venezuelan refugees had access to physicians from the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army. According to Lt. Gen. Michael Plehn, deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command, it was the first time the hospital ship had visited Trinidad and Tobago since 2007. The hospital ship, which has been on a five-month deployment, has also made stops in Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia and Curacao.

She said most of the people in need are Venezuelan and the nonprofit sector is stepping up where the government isn't. The United Nations estimates that about 40,000 of the 4 million Venezuelan refugees who have left their homes are in Trinidad and Tobago. Karen Lopez said she moved to Trinidad and Tobago about a year ago, and she misses her family. Lopez is documented because Trinidad and Tobago offered Venezuelan migrants amnesty in May. is one of the nongovernmental organizations based out of Port of Spain that are helping Venezuelan refugees in need.

Wendy Marcelle Fitzwilliam, a Trinidadian lawyer, said she often feels the desperation of the migrants who move to Trinidad and Tobago to run away from the economic and political crisis in Venezuela. Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

She said most of the people in need are Venezuelan and the nonprofit sector is stepping up where the government isn't. The United Nations estimates that about 40,000 of the 4 million Venezuelan refugees who have left their homes are in Trinidad and Tobago. Karen Lopez said she moved to Trinidad and Tobago about a year ago, and she misses her family. Lopez is documented because Trinidad and Tobago offered Venezuelan migrants amnesty in May. is one of the nongovernmental organizations based out of Port of Spain that are using their resources to help Venezuelan refugees in need.

LA BREA, Trinidad - Earlier this month, United States Naval Ship Comfort, a hospital ship on a humanitarian medical mission to help Venezuelan refugees, sailed into the Gulf of Paria, an inland sea between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. The United Nations estimates Trinidad and Tobago, a dual-island Caribbean nation, hosts more than 40,000 Venezuelans. Peter McIntyre, the Navy medical site coordinator, said the Venezuelan refugees had access to physicians from the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army. According to Lt. Gen. Michael Plehn, deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command, it was the first time the hospital ship had visited Trinidad and Tobago since 2007. The hospital ship, which has been on a five-month deployment, has also made stops in Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia and Curacao.