Many Amer­i­can vot­ers are con­cerned that the on­go­ing Mid­dle East con­flict will es­ca­late in­to an all-out re­gion­al war, a new poll finds. About half of vot­ers are “ex­treme­ly” or “very” wor­ried about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a broad­er war in the re­gion.

At least 63 peo­ple have died in east­ern Spain af­ter flash floods swept away cars, turned vil­lage streets in­to rivers and dis­rupt­ed rail lines and high­ways in the worst nat­ur­al dis­as­ter to hit the Eu­ro­pean na­tion in re­cent mem­o­ry.

The Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EM­BD) will have to pay over $83 mil­lion in out­stand­ing fees to Ju­nior Sam­my Con­trac­tors Lim­it­ed.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is de­mand­ing an­swers about the mas­sive pub­lic costs be­hind the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny’s (EM­B­DC) le­gal cam­paign, fol­low­ing a land­mark rul­ing by the Privy Coun­cil which dis­missed fraud al­le­ga­tions against Ju­nior Sam­my Con­trac­tors Lim­it­ed. He has al­so la­belled the case the most ex­pen­sive “witch-hunt” in the coun­try’s his­to­ry.

The con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Stu­art Young’s at­ten­dance at to­day’s fi­nal night of the Di­vali Na­gar is now a moot ar­gu­ment, as Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­turned to the coun­try and has con­firmed his at­ten­dance.

Stu­dents at­tend­ing Pe­nal Rock Pres­by­ter­ian School will not be dressed in In­di­an at­tire to­day on the eve of Di­vali.

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says busi­ness­men in Cen­tral Trinidad have backed out of sup­port­ing this year’s Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions in Fe­lic­i­ty, be­cause of how wide­spread ex­tor­tion has be­come.

High Court Judge West­min James has or­dered that a de­part­men­tal or­der is­sued on how po­lice of­fi­cers are as­sessed for pro­mo­tion is il­le­gal and with­out mer­it.

Af­ter 16 years at the helm of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), James Lam­bert is no longer the union’s pres­i­dent gen­er­al.

What was sup­posed to be an am­i­ca­ble school in­ter­ven­tion be­tween two moth­ers to deal with a bul­ly­ing is­sue de­scend­ed in­to vi­o­lence and blood­shed out­side a sec­ondary school.

De­spite his grow­ing in­ter­est in con­tribut­ing to his home­land, for­mer Howard Uni­ver­si­ty pres­i­dent and phil­an­thropist Dr Wayne Fred­er­ick said yes­ter­day that he is sim­ply too hon­est to en­gage in pol­i­tics.

Siparia po­lice have re­vealed that they will not be lay­ing charges against three teenage boys from Siparia West Sec­ondary School, who al­leged­ly beat up a Form Two stu­dent in the school wash­room last week Wednes­day.