Trinidad and To­ba­go is stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Venezuela as the neigh­bour­ing coun­try mourns vic­tims of the re­cent earth­quake while al­so mark­ing the 215th an­niver­sary of its De­c­la­ra­tion of In­de­pen­dence.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Seis­mic Re­search Cen­tre has con­firmed that the coastal up­lift that tore through the Gal­fa coast­line in Ce­dros last week was a re­sult of the two dead­ly twin earth­quakes that rocked Venezuela’s north­ern coast.

Out­go­ing Chair­man of the 15-mem­ber Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ter­rance Drew has urged re­gion­al lead­ers to make every ef­fort to at­tend meet­ings where ma­jor de­ci­sions are tak­en, amid the on­go­ing con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

Con­fir­ma­tion the TTPS brawled with Sil­ver Stars pan mem­bers af­ter TRIBE's band launch around 2:00 on Sun­day morn­ing. The pan side had been hired to close the fes­tiv­i­ties.