Hamas said Tues­day it will dis­cuss U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza with­in the group and with oth­er Pales­tin­ian fac­tions be­fore re­spond­ing. Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu has al­ready thrown his sup­port be­hind it, but it’s un­clear whether Hamas will agree and when it will give its re­sponse.

A strong off­shore earth­quake with a pre­lim­i­nary mag­ni­tude of 6.9 shook the cen­tral Philip­pines late Tues­day, send­ing peo­ple dash­ing out in­to streets, dam­ag­ing a stone church and prompt­ing a lo­cal tsuna­mi warn­ing.

The out­er bands of Hur­ri­cane Hum­ber­to lashed Bermu­da on Tues­day as it ap­proached the tiny British ter­ri­to­ry, with new­ly formed Hur­ri­cane Imel­da fol­low­ing close­ly be­hind.

A 40-year-old man was fa­tal­ly shot in Williamsville while wait­ing for trans­porta­tion to work this morn­ing. He has been iden­ti­fied as Al­lan Sama­roo.

The co-own­ers and for­mer pre­sumed ten­ants of the Break­fast Shed have threat­ened le­gal ac­tion against the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UDe­COTT) over what they de­scribe as the “un­law­ful clo­sure” of the pop­u­lar Port of Spain eatery.

Warn­ing that cli­mate change and en­vi­ron­men­tal de­struc­tion are the mod­ern-day Ra­vana threat­en­ing hu­man­i­ty, High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is en­cour­ag­ing every­one to do their part to con­serve and pro­tect the en­vi­ron­ment.

Ch­agua­nas school­teacher and fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Ko­mal Ma­haraj, 41, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Fri­day, was found alive and un­harmed yes­ter­day evening at a ho­tel in St He­le­na.

Three men were tak­en in­to cus­tody by of­fi­cers from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) be­tween Sun­day night and ear­ly yes­ter­day, af­ter they were caught at­tempt­ing to smug­gle con­tra­band in­to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca via a drone.

De­spite ex­press­ing di­verg­ing views from some of her Cari­com col­leagues on the world stage on the pres­ence of the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary in Caribbean wa­ters, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says to her knowl­edge, this has not led to any ten­sion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and the rest of the re­gion­al body.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is look­ing for­ward to an im­por­tant vis­it to Wash­ing­ton, DC, to­day, where she will hold talks with US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is de­fend­ing his de­ci­sion to have two sec­re­taries in the Di­vi­sion of Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties, and Trans­porta­tion, in­sist­ing he had done noth­ing wrong.

The ven­dors at Port-of-Spain’s icon­ic Break­fast Shed have not been evict­ed and were nev­er for­mal­ly served no­tices, Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (Ude­cott) chair­man Shankar Bidaisee said yes­ter­day, even as the fa­cil­i­ty re­mains closed and locked up.