The body of a man was found be­low the North Coast Road near the Mara­cas look­out on Tues­day morn­ing.

The Women Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of Trinidad and To­ba­go (WPTT) have con­demned sex­u­al ref­er­ences and in­nu­en­do di­rect­ed at women par­lia­men­tar­i­ans dur­ing the re­cent bud­get de­bate, say­ing po­lit­i­cal dis­agree­ments must not jus­ti­fy lan­guage that de­means women.

A Coast Guard of­fi­cer who com­mand­ed a ves­sel that ran aground ap­peared be­fore a five-mem­ber mil­i­tary tri­bunal on Mon­day to an­swer four charges aris­ing from the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has con­firmed that law en­force­ment of­fi­cials car­ried out a search at the home of Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen, say­ing he will on­ly pro­vide “up­dates if and when nec­es­sary and ap­pro­pri­ate to do so”.

For­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the Ernst & Young re­port be­ing used by his suc­ces­sor, Bar­ry Padarath, to ques­tion trans­ac­tions at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) was com­mis­sioned un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion to in­ves­ti­gate sus­pect­ed ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties be­fore out­stand­ing in­voic­es were paid.

Britain an­nounced Tues­day that it is ex­pand­ing mil­i­tary sup­port for Sau­di Ara­bia against the Houthis to in­clude “de­fen­sive” air pa­trols by Roy­al Air Force jets, but stressed there is no mil­i­tary so­lu­tion to the con­flict.

Paris re­turned to calm on Tues­day af­ter its first qui­et night since a week­end marred by France’s most de­struc­tive ri­ot­ing in years, as au­thor­i­ties im­posed cur­fews in sev­er­al cities in an ef­fort to pre­vent an­oth­er round of ri­ot­ing and loot­ing.

Five new­ly in­stalled buoys and 19 ma­rine an­chors used to se­cure bathing-area safe­ty bar­ri­ers have been stolen at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, prompt­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to con­demn what he de­scribed as a bla­tant dis­re­gard for pub­lic safe­ty.

The Ju­di­cia­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go says due process and the pre­sump­tion of in­no­cence re­main im­por­tant fol­low­ing a po­lice search of the home of Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath says sev­er­al mat­ters aris­ing from foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to state en­ti­ties will be re­ferred to the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has warned pub­lic sec­tor em­ploy­ees who fail to per­form their du­ties that they will be dis­missed and re­placed by peo­ple will­ing to work.

Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein says the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice will probe the lease of Ch­aguara­mas state lands by Tem­blado­ra En­er­gy Lo­gis­tics Lim­it­ed (TELL), where for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) trea­sur­er Howard Chin Lee is a di­rec­tor—but Chin Lee has deemed Ho­sein’s state­ments on the lease mis­lead­ing.”