The 4-year-old doc­u­ment has a bland, bu­reau­crat­ic ti­tle — “Ba­sic Prin­ci­ples of State Pol­i­cy on Nu­clear De­ter­rence” — but its con­tents are chill­ing, es­pe­cial­ly with its newest re­vi­sions.

The Gov­ern­ment of Grena­da said Tues­day that mil­lions of dol­lars would be re­quired to re­pair and/or re­place pub­lic in­fra­struc­ture dam­aged or de­mol­ished by the flood­ing caused by the ex­ces­sive rain­fall the coun­try has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing since No­vem­ber 8.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds MP, has re­stat­ed this coun­try’s com­mit­ment to em­brac­ing and im­ple­ment­ing the prin­ci­ples of “restora­tive jus­tice” as the coun­try ob­serves Restora­tive Jus­tice Week this year.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley and a min­is­te­r­i­al del­e­ga­tion will trav­el to George­town, Guyana to­day (Tues­day 19th No­vem­ber, 2024) to at­tend sev­er­al meet­ings with CARI­COM heads of gov­ern­ment and Prime Min­is­ter of In­dia, Shri Naren­dra Mo­di. The sum­mit will fo­cus on strength­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion in agri­cul­ture, food se­cu­ri­ty, health, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, sci­ence, and in­no­va­tion, ac­cord­ing to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

bp has been award­ed the NC­MA 2 block off­shore Trinidad as part of the Shal­low Wa­ter 2023/24 bid round that closed in May 2024.

Ukraine fired six Amer­i­can-sup­plied longer-range mis­siles at Rus­sia’s Bryan­sk re­gion, Moscow said Tues­day, in what would be Kyiv’s first use of the weapons in­side Rus­sia in 1,000 days of war.

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al, con­tin­ued ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­SWA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) Pay Re­view Com­mit­tee to­day, ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Of­fice of the CPO. 

Five per­sons were ar­rest­ed, and a firearm and quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed overnight in the South­ern and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

Pow­er Con­struc­tion Cor­po­ra­tion of Chi­na, a lead­ing in­fra­struc­ture firm, has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to ad­vanc­ing clean en­er­gy projects in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider re­gion.

The Unit­ed Na­tions says more than 20,000 peo­ple have fled their homes across Haiti’s cap­i­tal, Port-au-Prince, in just four days amid es­ca­lat­ing gang vi­o­lence, with more than 17,000 seek­ing shel­ter in 15 dis­place­ment sites as crit­i­cal sup­ply chains col­lapse.

Gun­men shot and killed a Syr­i­an gy­ro ven­dor while he con­duct­ed sales in Fyz­abad ear­ly Mon­day.

Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin on Tues­day signed a re­vised nu­clear doc­trine de­clar­ing that a con­ven­tion­al at­tack on Rus­sia by any na­tion that is sup­port­ed by a nu­clear pow­er will be con­sid­ered a joint at­tack on his coun­try.