The following is the CANANews and SPORTS Schedule for Friday, July 24, 2026.
GEORGETOWN – Divers have returned to the site of the sunken MV Barima on Friday hoping to retrieve bodies as the death toll has risen to 72, President Irfaan Ali has said.
PORT OF SPAIN – Two Venezuelan nationals, including a five-year-old child, have died after a pirogue carrying 29 people overturned off Los Iros Beach, on the south coast of Trinidad, during an illegal sea crossing to Venezuela on Wednesday.
PARAMARIBO – Public Health, Welfare and Labour MInister, André Misiekaba, is calling for an urgent and national approach to suicide after figures released by the police show a significant increase in cases in the month of June.
PORT OF SPAIN – Chairman of the main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM), Marvin Gonzales, has burnt a copy of the High Court ordered unexplained wealth order granted to the Trinidad and Tobago Police last week, saying it ‘was born in sin and it was shaped in political iniquity’.
ROSEAU – The Dominica government says it will commission its 10-megawatt geothermal power plant on July 31 as the country continues with efforts to transition to a cleaner, more resilient energy sector.
SPORTS:
PORT OF SPAIN – West Indies head coach Daren Sammy has maintained that the recent performances of both Joshua Bishop and Kirk McKenzie merit their selection to the West Indies squad for the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.