Hamas and Is­rael staked out their po­si­tions Wednes­day ahead of ex­pect­ed talks on a Wash­ing­ton-backed cease­fire pro­pos­al, with the mil­i­tant group sug­gest­ing it was open to an agree­ment while the Is­raeli prime min­is­ter vowed “there will be no Hamas” in post­war Gaza.

A sec­ondary school stu­dent was ar­rest­ed and charged yes­ter­day af­ter a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer dis­cov­ered a knife on him as he ar­rived at a school in Cen­tral Trinidad.

The com­pa­ny de­clined to say how many peo­ple would be laid off but said that it will com­prise less than 4% of the work­force it had a year ago.

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) must pay more than $4 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to 13 for­mer con­tract work­ers it dis­missed af­ter the 2021 THA elec­tions.

Po­lice are still search­ing for a group of men who at­tacked three su­per­mar­ket work­ers while they were asleep and es­caped with thou­sands of dol­lars in cash dur­ing a rob­bery in Scar­bor­ough ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and PNM Po­lit­i­cal Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is re­mem­ber­ing for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning on the ninth an­niver­sary of his death.

Sean “Did­dy Combs was con­vict­ed of a pros­ti­tu­tion-re­lat­ed of­fence but ac­quit­ted Wednes­day of sex traf­fick­ing and rack­e­teer­ing charges that could have put one of hip-hop’s most cel­e­brat­ed fig­ures be­hind bars for life.

Bar­ba­di­an busi­ness­man, Charles Char­lie Spice Lewis has filed a law­suit against Meta Plat­forms Inc., seek­ing US$50 mil­lion in com­pen­sato­ry dam­ages.

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo in his lat­est state­ment about T&T is warn­ing that T&T must not be al­lowed to be­come an­oth­er Colom­bia, Venezuela’s South Amer­i­can neigh­bour wrecked by decades of gueril­la war­fare re­sult­ing in over quar­ter mil­lion deaths.

An analy­sis finds that a crit­i­cal group of U.S. em­ploy­ers would face a di­rect cost of $82.3 bil­lion from Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s cur­rent tar­iff plans, a sum that could be po­ten­tial­ly man­aged through price hikes, lay­offs, hir­ing freezes or low­er prof­it mar­gins.

Twen­ty-four hours af­ter Gov­ern­ment passed leg­is­la­tion to pull for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s prime min­is­te­r­i­al pen­sion, the Cab­i­net al­so pulled his per­son­al se­cu­ri­ty de­tail.

Scam­mers have conned the Cana­di­an Im­pe­r­i­al Bank of Com­merce (CIBC) Caribbean’s T&T op­er­a­tions of mil­lions of dol­lars, po­lice con­firmed yes­ter­day.