For­mer min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the es­ca­lat­ing con­flict in the Mid­dle East, say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­part­ed from its tra­di­tion­al for­eign pol­i­cy prin­ci­ples.

Un­der the swel­ter­ing mid­day sun, hun­dreds of mi­grants—in­clud­ing moth­ers clutch­ing tod­dlers—stood be­neath tents out­side the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va yes­ter­day, wait­ing to be processed as the Gov­ern­ment be­gan its in-per­son mi­grant reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise.

Ex­cite­ment is build­ing in Bar­rack­pore as Phag­wa re­turns to the Vic­to­ria Unit­ed Sports Club at Val­ley­line for the first time since 1989, bring­ing with it colour, chow­tal and com­mu­ni­ty uni­ty.

The Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh, is en­cour­ag­ing land­lords across Trinidad and To­ba­go to com­plete the re­cent­ly rolled out on­line Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge reg­is­tra­tion with­in the stip­u­lat­ed time frame.

The rel­a­tives of a man from Diego Mar­tin, re­spon­si­ble for a land­mark case which al­lowed bail to be con­sid­ered for peo­ple charged with mur­der, are set to re­ceive a lit­tle over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

The State has been or­dered to pay over $125,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a pair of fish­er­men from Moru­ga, whose boat was seized and de­tained for al­most four years with­out law­ful jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. 

Head of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, ACP Richard Smith, says as the TTPS con­tin­ues to in­ves­ti­gate in­stances where sus­pect­ed po­lice and De­fence Force spent shells are found at crime scenes, sev­er­al pos­si­bil­i­ties ex­ist as to how marked am­mu­ni­tion may end up in such lo­ca­tions.

The Privy Coun­cil has re­solved a long-stand­ing prop­er­ty dis­pute be­tween a dozen sib­lings over one of them build­ing a house on a por­tion of land their fa­ther left them. 

Is­rael and the Unit­ed States pound­ed Iran on Mon­day in a cam­paign that U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said would like­ly take sev­er­al weeks. Tehran and its al­lies hit back against Is­rael, Gulf states and tar­gets crit­i­cal to the world’s en­er­gy pro­duc­tion.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has is­sued two Cer­tifi­cates of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CECs) for projects in the en­er­gy and tourism sec­tors.

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed says re­pair, clean-up and restora­tion works fol­low­ing a pipeline leak at San Fer­nan­do East Sec­ondary School have been com­plet­ed.

Asia mar­kets in Hong Kong and Japan re­act af­ter the U.S. and Is­rael’s at­tacks on Iran Oil prices are leap­ing Mon­day with wor­ries that the Iran war will clog the glob­al flow of crude and make in­fla­tion even worse. U.S. stocks, mean­while, are swing­ing be­tween sharp loss­es and a tiny gain.