The Trinidad and To­ba­go Ag­gre­gate Pro­duc­ers Al­liance (TTA­PA) says it has de­cid­ed to re­open its mem­bers’ quar­ries af­ter re­cent “con­struc­tive con­ver­sa­tions” with the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, even though no pro­cess­ing li­cences have yet been is­sued.

In­spec­tor of Pris­ons Michael O’Neil says he plans to vis­it the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) soon, fol­low­ing grow­ing com­plaints from de­tainees about in­hu­mane con­di­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty.

The own­er of Trin­ba­go Ship­ping Ex­press, Pamela Lind­say, says out­stand­ing de­mur­rage fees and un­re­solved cus­tomer pay­ments are be­hind the pro­longed de­lays in ship­ments to Trinidad. Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Mon­day, Lind­say said she owed more than US$200,000 to a steamship line af­ter con­tain­ers re­mained at the Port of Port-of-Spain be­yond the free stor­age pe­ri­od.

The threat of dis­as­ter doesn’t just come from the skies or the oceans: it comes from the qui­et and com­pound­ing strain on na­tion­al bud­gets. At COP30, Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS)—a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty fac­ing dis­pro­por­tion­ate risks from the cli­mate cri­sis—are plead­ing with the world to ho­n­our the 1.5 de­grees Cel­sius thresh­old ini­tial­ly out­lined in the Paris Agree­ment. Most SIDS are caught in a vi­cious cy­cle where se­vere weath­er events dec­i­mate crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture, high re­liance on im­ports fur­ther strains re­sources, and mount­ing debt lim­its their abil­i­ty to in­vest in re­silience projects they des­per­ate­ly need.

Short­ly af­ter be­com­ing di­rec­tor of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean for the Green Cli­mate Fund (GCF), Kristin Lang gave an in­ter­view say­ing re­gion­al di­a­logue is “ex­treme­ly im­por­tant” to un­der­stand the needs of this part of the world and how the GCF can serve them.

A Rio Claro fam­i­ly is call­ing on po­lice to act swift­ly and ar­rest the sus­pect be­hind what they be­lieve was an ar­son at­tack that de­stroyed a house and two trucks on Mon­day morn­ing.

A lit­tle over a year af­ter it was blocked from sell­ing or mar­ket­ing a range of spe­cial­ist skin care prod­ucts, Pen­ny­wise Cos­met­ics Lim­it­ed has en­tered in­to a deal to be­come the ex­clu­sive lo­cal au­tho­rised com­mer­cial re­tail­er.

A warn­ing writ­ten on the mir­ror of a wash­room led to the tem­po­rary evac­u­a­tion of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter on St Clair Av­enue on Tues­day, po­lice said.

Amid mount­ing on­line claims that U.S. mil­i­tary air­craft and drones have been fly­ing near or with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space on sur­veil­lance mis­sions tied to Venezuela, the for­mer Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al of Civ­il Avi­a­tion is urg­ing calm, clar­i­ty, and an end to fear-dri­ven spec­u­la­tion.

The gov­ern­ment of Venezuela has or­dered a full-scale mil­i­tary readi­ness ex­er­cise with 200,000 armed troops de­ployed, just as the Unit­ed States’ USS Ger­ald R Ford—the largest air­craft car­ri­er and war­ship ever con­struct­ed—en­tered Caribbean wa­ters.

A Siparia man is de­mand­ing jus­tice af­ter his rel­a­tive, 50-year-old Zane Bowen, was shot and killed dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion with an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer on Mon­day. Ini­tial re­ports stat­ed that around 7 am, a po­lice con­sta­ble of Darsan Trace, Siparia, had just re­turned home when he was ap­proached by Bowen, who was re­port­ed­ly armed with a cut­lass and a piece of wood. An al­ter­ca­tion al­leged­ly en­sued be­tween the two men, dur­ing which the of­fi­cer re­treat­ed in­to the yard of his res­i­dence. How­ev­er, po­lice said Bowen fol­lowed him in­side and con­tin­ued the con­fronta­tion. The of­fi­cer, who is cur­rent­ly on in­jury leave and holds a Firearm User’s Li­cence (FUL), claimed he drew his Glock pis­tol and fired sev­er­al shots at Bowen, hit­ting him mul­ti­ple times about the body. Bowen died at the scene. In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Bowen's rel­a­tive, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, said his broth­er had an is­sue with his neigh­bours park­ing their ve­hi­cles “in the mid­dle of the road”. He said Bowen, a con­struc­tion work­er, was prepar­ing to go to work when the al­ter­ca­tion oc­curred, as in­side the house, he saw a bowl of food and his tools packed for work. Call­ing for a prop­er in­ves­ti­ga­tion and for the po­lice of­fi­cer to be charged, he said Bowen was shot about four to sev­en times.

As To­ba­go’s po­lit­i­cal tem­per­a­ture ris­es ahead of the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion, small­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties are qui­et­ly but steadi­ly ramp­ing up prepa­ra­tions, each aim­ing to of­fer an al­ter­na­tive to the is­land’s tra­di­tion­al po­lit­i­cal gi­ants.