Hun­dreds of mi­grants, in­clud­ing moth­ers with young chil­dren, lined up un­der tents out­side the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, en­dur­ing in­tense heat as they wait­ed to be processed.

Of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate rob­beries re­port­ed across the cap­i­tal on Sat­ur­day.

Fish­er­folk along the south-east coast are on alert as two men re­main miss­ing at sea be­tween Guayagua­yare and Moru­ga.

As ris­ing ten­sions in­volv­ing Iran push glob­al oil and gas prices high­er, for­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed the At­lantic LNG re­struc­tur­ing, say­ing the coun­try is now po­si­tioned to ben­e­fit be­cause of de­ci­sions tak­en un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment.

Econ­o­mist Dr Vaalmik­ki Ar­joon has warned that sim­ply in­creas­ing con­tri­bu­tions will not be enough to sus­tain the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Fund, call­ing for broad­er re­forms such as grad­u­al­ly rais­ing the re­tire­ment age to re­flect longer life ex­pectan­cy.

No in­struc­tions were ever is­sued by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion re­quir­ing teach­ers or staff to pay for ser­vices un­der the Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAP), Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath told Par­lia­ment last Fri­day.

A po­ten­tial bil­lion-dol­lar surge in en­er­gy rev­enue could be on the hori­zon for Trinidad and To­ba­go, dri­ven by es­ca­lat­ing geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions and a re­struc­tured At­lantic LNG pric­ing for­mu­la, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has said.

Di­nesh Gadraj is sched­uled to leave T&T in just two weeks for Apol­lo Hos­pi­tal in In­dia—a jour­ney his fam­i­ly prays will save his life. But as March 11 draws clos­er, the 20-year-old re­mains heart­break­ing­ly far from rais­ing the more than US$165,000 need­ed for the stem cell trans­plant that could give him a fight­ing chance.

The MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny car­go ves­sel will sail from Port-of-Spain to Scar­bor­ough at 2 pm, Mon­day to Fri­day, this week, as au­thor­i­ties move to re­store sta­bil­i­ty to the in­ter-is­land seabridge.

Crews from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) worked along­side tech­ni­cal staff at the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) on Sun­day to re­store elec­tric­i­ty to sec­tions of the new wing of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, near the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency (A&E) de­part­ment, af­ter an elec­tri­cal break­er failed, plung­ing parts of the fa­cil­i­ty in­to dark­ness.

Stake­hold­ers say while they wel­come the prime min­is­ter’s meet­ing with the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States as a pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment, she is be­ing ad­vised that, al­though sig­nif­i­cant, “ac­cess alone is not achieve­ment.”

The re­cent mil­i­tary strike on Iran by the Unit­ed States and Is­rael has drawn sharp crit­i­cism from Cuban and Caribbean lead­ers, who warned of po­ten­tial vi­o­la­tions of in­ter­na­tion­al law and threats to re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty.