In re­sponse to es­ca­lat­ing weath­er con­di­tions un­der the Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert, the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy has or­dered the im­me­di­ate clo­sure of all schools across To­ba­go. This pre­cau­tion­ary sus­pen­sion of the cur­ricu­lum aims to pro­tect stu­dents and staff amid fore­casts of in­ten­si­fy­ing storms.

Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es yes­ter­day, con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the East­ern and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions.

A Mal­oney man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of Michael Au­gus­tine, which oc­curred in May last year.

Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our vis­it­ed the City Gate Tran­sit Hub as part of on­go­ing talks with the Route Two Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, fol­low­ing com­plaints about poor in­fra­struc­ture and op­er­a­tional in­ef­fi­cien­cies.

A Yel­low Lev­el Ad­verse Weath­er Alert has been ac­ti­vat­ed for Trinidad and sur­round­ing wa­ters, and to a less­er ex­tent, To­ba­go.

Rus­sia sent waves of drones and mis­siles in an at­tack on two Ukrain­ian cities ear­ly Tues­day that killed three peo­ple and wound­ed at least thir­teen oth­ers, Ukrain­ian of­fi­cials said.

This is the ad­vice of a se­nior Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial to the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­min­is­tra­tion, amid con­tin­u­ing diplo­mat­ic ten­sion be­tween the neigh­bour­ing coun­tries.

De­spite signs of new ten­sion from Venezuela yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said T&T’s re­la­tion­ship with our neigh­bour was “peace­ful.”

De­spite a new sal­vo of crit­i­cism from the Venezuela gov­ern­ment yes­ter­day, For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is re­as­sur­ing the pub­lic that re­la­tions be­tween T&T and its neigh­bour re­main strong and sta­ble.

For­mer For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs min­is­ter Amery Browne has reached out to the min­istry to of­fer his help in set­tling the cur­rent diplo­mat­ic is­sue with Venezuela—but cur­rent For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says it is not Browne’s place.

For­mer Rur­al De­vel­op­ment min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi claims work­ers who dealt with the COVID-19 re­sponse in the re­gion­al health au­thor­i­ties and sev­er­al work­ers in the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Min­istry are among the lat­est fac­ing job­less­ness due to the non-re­new­al of con­tracts.

Un­less the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al takes the mat­ter to the Privy Coun­cil, three Ap­peal Court judges yes­ter­day cleared the way for nine men freed of the mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man to col­lect a $20 mil­lion pay­out.