U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has warned Iran that the U.S. will de­stroy one bridge or pow­er plant each time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hor­muz.

All six crew mem­bers aboard the fish­ing ves­sel St Vin­cent VII have been res­cued alive af­ter spend­ing days in dis­tress at sea, fol­low­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse in­volv­ing a com­mer­cial ves­sel and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard.

At least 999 peo­ple have died from the Ebo­la out­break in Con­go, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial da­ta pub­lished overnight in­to Wednes­day, a grim toll in what’s al­ready been de­clared the fastest Ebo­la out­break in his­to­ry.

The State of Emer­gency (SoE) tri­bunal re­view­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed’s Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) has rec­om­mend­ed that he be re­leased from cus­tody, find­ing that his con­tin­ued de­ten­tion was not nec­es­sary or ex­pe­di­ent in the pub­lic in­ter­est, ac­cord­ing to ap­peal doc­u­ments filed be­fore the Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has point­ed to po­lice sta­tis­tics which she says show a de­cline in mur­ders un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion, ar­gu­ing that the da­ta demon­strates the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing mea­sures and the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) is threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) over what it de­scribes as il­le­gal four-hour shifts for nurs­ing and mid­wifery per­son­nel.

Two peo­ple have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der Reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, af­ter the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty de­ter­mined their de­ten­tion was nec­es­sary to pre­vent acts con­sid­ered prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is strength­en­ing its re­sponse to home in­va­sions by work­ing more close­ly with com­mu­ni­ties and di­vi­sion­al po­lice units to en­sure a rapid ex­change of in­for­ma­tion dur­ing emer­gen­cies, ac­cord­ing to head of the Home In­va­sion Team (HIT) ACP Richard Smith.

Pres­i­dent of the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) Ger­ard Gor­don has ques­tioned whether act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Car­los Cor­raspe was af­ford­ed due process be­fore be­ing sent on four months’ ac­cu­mu­lat­ed va­ca­tion leave amid al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing the treat­ment of de­tainee Do­minic Hadeed, founder and ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of Blue Wa­ters Prod­ucts Ltd, at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison.

Rel­a­tives of miss­ing fish­er­man Shan­non Mo­hammed con­tin­ue to cling to hope that he and five oth­er crew mem­bers aboard the MV St Vin­cent VII are still alive some­where in the At­lantic Ocean.

The loss of chil­dren has be­come the most heart­break­ing as­pect of Guyana’s worst mar­itime dis­as­ter in liv­ing mem­o­ry, with Prime Min­is­ter Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips ad­mit­ting that the tragedy has deeply af­fect­ed him as the na­tion con­tin­ues to search for sur­vivors and re­cov­er vic­tims.

To­ba­go stake­hold­ers say there are valu­able lessons to be learned from the mar­itime tragedy in Guyana.