SM Jaleel & Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed has con­firmed that it made a bid to sup­ply bot­tled wa­ter to State-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL), but says dis­cus­sions are still un­der­way with the air­line, al­though CAL has al­ready con­firmed that it has award­ed the com­pa­ny a $405,600 con­tract.

A 65-year-old woman died af­ter she was struck by a van along the South­ern Main Road in Mara­bel­la on Tues­day.

For­mer prime min­is­ter and en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young has urged the Gov­ern­ment to pro­ceed cau­tious­ly with its pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tre projects, point­ing to New York’s de­ci­sion to pause con­struc­tion of large fa­cil­i­ties over con­cerns about their im­pact on pow­er and wa­ter re­sources.

At­tor­ney H. R. Ian Roach has been ap­point­ed a mem­ber of the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (JLSC).

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Stu­art Young SC says it is a time­ly warn­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go that New York yes­ter­day be­came the first US state to halt the con­struc­tion of large new da­ta cen­tres be­cause of con­cerns about their im­pact on elec­tric­i­ty costs, wa­ter sup­plies and host com­mu­ni­ties.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with a high-lev­el Unit­ed States del­e­ga­tion on Mon­day for dis­cus­sions aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al ties and ex­pand­ing co­op­er­a­tion in in­vest­ment, eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment and re­gion­al is­sues.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve will re­main in prison while the Court of Ap­peal mulls over re­leas­ing them pend­ing a law­suit chal­leng­ing their de­ten­tion over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

The Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Copy­right Col­lec­tion Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TTC­CO), As­ten Isaac, is call­ing for greater trans­paren­cy over the li­cens­ing of FI­FA World Cup broad­casts in com­mer­cial es­tab­lish­ments, say­ing the de­bate should be guid­ed by con­trac­tu­al rights and in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty law rather than spec­u­la­tion.

The chief in­ves­ti­ga­tor with the Air­craft Ac­ci­dent In­ves­ti­ga­tion Au­thor­i­ty (AA­IA) of The Ba­hamas, Kendall I. Dorsett Jr., con­firmed Tues­day that they are still gath­er­ing da­ta re­gard­ing last Fri­day’s plane crash that claimed the lives of all 10 peo­ple on board.

The Ebo­la out­break in east­ern Con­go “con­tin­ues to out­pace the re­sponse ef­forts,” the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion’s emer­gen­cies chief said on Tues­day af­ter re­turn­ing from a trip to Bunia, in Ituri province, which is one of the worst hit ar­eas.

The U.S. launched strikes on Iran ear­ly Tues­day, hours af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump vowed to re­in­state an Amer­i­can block­ade of Iran­ian ports and charge ships for safe pas­sage through the Strait of Hor­muz. Iran re­spond­ed with at­tacks on Mid­dle East al­lies of the U.S.

A Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al who made in­ter­na­tion­al head­lines af­ter be­ing con­vict­ed in the Unit­ed States for at­tempt­ing to arrange the mur­der of his for­mer girl­friend's part­ner has died in Flori­da.