The Unit­ed King­dom smashed a cen­tu­ry-old tem­per­a­ture record for the sec­ond time in 24 hours on Tues­day as a spring heat wave con­tin­ued to scorch parts of West­ern Eu­rope, trig­ger­ing gov­ern­ment warn­ings about risks to life. Sev­er­al drown­ings were re­port­ed in Britain and France as peo­ple tried to cool down.

Land­lords and rent-col­lect­ing agents now have un­til June 30, 2026, to com­plete manda­to­ry reg­is­tra­tion un­der the Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge af­ter the Min­istry of Fi­nance an­nounced an ex­ten­sion fol­low­ing pub­lic en­gage­ment by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo.

Guyana is mak­ing med­ical his­to­ry on Tues­day by par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ground­break­ing ro­bot­ic car­diac surgery that will be per­formed in that coun­try by a spe­cial­ist based in In­dia.

Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics seized dur­ing a se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es car­ried out by po­lice in the North Cen­tral and South­ern Di­vi­sions overnight.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has com­plet­ed ma­jor con­struc­tion works and be­gun tran­si­tion­ing to up­grad­ed pipeline in­fra­struc­ture as part of an on­go­ing As­set In­tegri­ty Man­age­ment Pro­gramme aimed at im­prov­ing op­er­a­tional safe­ty, en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion and sys­tem re­li­a­bil­i­ty.

Af­ter spend­ing near­ly a year on the side­lines with in­jury, West In­dies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph says he is ea­ger to re­turn to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et and help lift the re­gion­al team to greater heights.

That is the lat­est ad­vice to mem­bers of the pub­lic from at­tor­ney Criston CJ Williams, who is rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly of Joshua Sama­roo, as emo­tions con­tin­ue to run high over the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s han­dling of the probe in­to his death in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in­ci­dent Jan­u­ary. 

Two stake­hold­ers yes­ter­day ques­tioned the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) han­dling of the Joshua Sama­roo case and again called for the full use of body cam­eras by po­lice dur­ing their op­er­a­tional du­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has paid trib­ute to for­mer Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) min­is­ter Her­bert Atwell fol­low­ing his death over the week­end, de­scrib­ing him as part of a gen­er­a­tion of po­lit­i­cal lead­ers who helped shape Trinidad and To­ba­go’s democ­ra­cy dur­ing one of its most defin­ing pe­ri­ods.

One day af­ter the Sun­day Guardian pub­lished an ar­ti­cle stat­ing that book­ing an e-ap­point­ment for a pass­port on the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty web­site takes as long as six months, the min­istry is­sued an ex­pres­sion of in­ter­est (EOI) for suit­ably qual­i­fied en­ti­ties to up­grade its pass­port por­tal.

As the Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter con­tin­ues to face ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia over ques­tion­able hir­ing prac­tices at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les is warn­ing Bar­ry Padarath that he is “com­ing af­ter him” when Par­lia­ment re­sumes.

Warn­ing that too many young men are falling be­hind in ed­u­ca­tion, em­ploy­ment and train­ing, Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing, Prakash Per­sad, yes­ter­day de­scribed the is­sue as a grow­ing so­cial cri­sis.