Amid com­plaints from mem­bers of the TT De­fence Force (TTDF) Re­serves over the non-pay­ment of salaries, the De­fence Force has promised to de­liv­er cheques of out­stand­ing salaries to banks by to­day (Wednes­day).

The Com­mis­sion of In­quiry, ap­point­ed to in­ves­ti­gate the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the Ju­ly 18 cap­siz­ing of the M/V Bari­ma that re­sult­ed in the deaths of more than 100 peo­ple, says it is com­mit­ted to con­duct­ing its work “in­de­pen­dent­ly, im­par­tial­ly, thor­ough­ly and ex­pe­di­tious­ly, with­out fear or favour”, and in ac­cor­dance with its terms of man­date.

The Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) is warn­ing gov­ern­ments not to treat the pos­si­bil­i­ty of glob­al tem­per­a­tures ex­ceed­ing 1.5°C as a rea­son to aban­don the cli­mate tar­get, fol­low­ing the re­lease of a new Unit­ed Na­tions En­vi­ron­ment Pro­gramme re­port on lim­it­ing tem­per­a­ture over­shoot.

A 19-year-old Va­len­cia man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized a 9mm pis­tol loaded with sev­en rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a road check op­er­a­tion on Tues­day night.