Short­ly af­ter all mo­torists were grant­ed ac­cess to the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route on Wednes­day morn­ing, that ac­cess has been re­voked to al­low for nor­mal op­er­a­tions on the PBR.

Steep U.S. tar­iffs on a range of In­di­an prod­ucts took ef­fect Wednes­day, threat­en­ing a se­ri­ous blow to In­dia’s over­seas trade in its largest ex­port mar­ket.

In­de­pen­dence Day in T&T can of­ten throw up some sur­pris­es, like the oc­ca­sions of the coun­try’s 40th an­niver­sary and 50th an­niver­sary.

A prison of­fi­cer with al­leged links to mur­der ac­cused Ra­jaee Ali, is one of the lat­est peo­ple to have a de­ten­tion or­der is­sued against him un­der the State of Emer­gency.

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has fi­nal­ly bro­ken his si­lence on the al­leged threat against his life.

Sources in the De­fence Force say the pres­ence of US Naval ships in the Caribbean Sea was not dis­cussed dur­ing a meet­ing on Mon­day in­volv­ing se­nior mil­i­tary of­fi­cials. Sources, who asked not to be named, said the meet­ing was lim­it­ed to “do­mes­tic af­fairs” on­ly.

The Unit­ed States’ re­cent move to or­der ad­di­tion­al ships—in­clud­ing a nu­clear-pow­ered at­tack sub­ma­rine—to the south­ern Caribbean to ad­dress drug car­tel threats has been con­demned by Venezuela’s mis­sion to the Unit­ed Na­tions, which says the en­try of a nu­clear sub­ma­rine to the re­gion vi­o­lates treaties the US has signed.

The Don­ald Trump Unit­ed States (US) ad­min­is­tra­tion has hailed Trinidad and To­ba­go as an al­ly in its fight against Venezue­lan and Mex­i­can drug car­tels in the re­gion.

In the af­ter­math of a shock­ing at­tack on a cher­ished Clax­ton Bay shop­keep­er, a com­mu­ni­ty is now fear­ful, cling­ing to hope for di­vine in­ter­ven­tion and jus­tice amidst the chaos.

Three Venezue­lan im­mi­grants, who al­leged­ly in­vad­ed the home of an­oth­er mi­grant cou­ple in Debe on Mon­day night, are in po­lice cus­tody, af­ter be­ing caught short­ly af­ter the crime.

De­spite ear­li­er promis­es that con­sul­ta­tions on the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion (Self-De­fence and De­fence of Prop­er­ty) Bill, 2025, will reach every con­stituen­cy, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein could not con­firm yes­ter­day that ses­sions were held across the 13 Op­po­si­tion con­stituen­cies.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath says Form One stu­dents will re­ceive their Gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops at the end of Sep­tem­ber.